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COLLECTION S 



TOWARDS 



lUUSTRATING 

THE BIOGRAPHY 

OF THE 

SCOTCH, ENGLISH. AND IRISH MEMBERS 

OP THE 

SOCIETY OF JESUS. 

^ 

BY THE REV. DR. OLIVER, 

ST. NICHOLAS' PRIORY, EXETER. 



ACRI 

JUDICIO PERPENDE ; ET SI TIBI VERA VIDETUR 

DeDE MANUS ; AUT SI FALSA EST, ACCINGERE CONTRA. 




LONDON : 

Charlet Dolman, 61, New Bond Street, 

MDCCCXLV. 



DEDICATION. 




"TO THE 



REV. CHARLES BROOKE 



EX-PROVINCIAL OF THE ENGLISH MEMBERS, 8. J. 



Dear Rev, Father, 



At leng th I send my handful of Collections for illustrating the Lives of the Scotch, and 
English, and Irish Members of the Society of Jesus. I am very sensible, how unsatisfac- 
torily and feebly the work is executed : for, independently of my own incapacity , I have 
had sometimes to regret, in the progress of my labours, the loss of Documents through 
the carelessness oj Friends and Brethren ; and muoh more frequently to deplore the 
wanton spoliation and destruction of valuable Evidences and Records, hy the avowed 
Enemies of the Society, and of Catholic Faith.* In your charity be pleased to accept 
this compilation as an earnest of my good will and attachment to the Body^ and as a 
•proof of my anxiety to mark the sense I entertain of the " prasclara ProvincisB Angliffl 
merita in Ecclesiam et Societatein."+ At all events I hope to have shown, that I am a 
witling Pioneer in the service, too happy to prepare the way for more efficient Workmen* 

Permit me to confess, Dear Rev, Father, that I atn deeply moved and affected, when 
I call to mind the heroic examples of many of these truly good, and even great men (for 
they were great in the sight of God) — when I consider their personal sacrifices and pri- 
vations for the cause of Religion^ and that ardent zeal for the honour and glory of God, 
which no disgrace could intimidate, no difficulties and dangers could terrify. They were 
men indeed, of whom the world was not worthy. They cast no sideling glance to inter- 
est : they rose superior to prejudice, and all unbecoming jealousy. United amongst 
themselves, and emulous of the credit of their own Order, they esteemed, assisted, che- 
rished and honoured all fellow-labourers in the vineyard of our common Master, Jems 
Christ. Rich in wisdom and virtue, they were contented in the midst of poverty, and 
the heat of persecution. Though deserving well of their country, of Society, and of 
mankind ^ they had often to experience the foulest ingratitude, and to become the victims 
of calumny, malice, and tyrannical iniquity, — (Ecclesiastes iv. I.) — How many of these 
worthies have spent themselves in the care of the poor, the prisoners, the infected, the 
Slave and Barbarian ? Haw many have toiled in the education of youth, and in training 
future Missionaries ? How many have dragged out an existence amidst inatedible hard- 
ships and perils, concealed in speluncis et in abditis, in petris quoque et in antris, et 
in cisternis — (I, i. Reg. c. 13) — daily exposed to treachery and apprehension, and in 
perpetual terror for the liberty, and fortunes, and lives of their Friends and Benefac- 
tors ? How many have pined away and perished in chains and dungeons ? How many, 

* The Annual Letters of 1685, deeply lament the loss and plunder of documents during the popular 
excitement occasioned by Gates' Plot. " De Missione nostri Anglicana ultimae Persecutionis acerbitas 
omnia TerA nobis monumenta ademit : integras nostras Bibliothecse compilataa sunt ; scrinia omnia cum 
chartis et observationibus direpta,adeo ut mirum non sit multa hlc desiderari, quas uti spersmus, scripta 
sunt in Libro Vitae." 

t XIV Gen. Congreg. Decret. 16. A. D. 169(5. The General M. A. Tamburiui also, in his letter of 36 
January, 1715, to the Provincial F. Thomas Parker, calls it " Meriixsiima Anglia JUiasio." 



a. 



iv. 



after enduring refined tortures in secret^ have been brought on the scaffold rejoicing 
to be accounted worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus ? Though dead, they still speak ; 
and from their ashes is echoed the admonition, *♦ Be not slothful, but followers Qfthem 
who through faith and patience inherit the Promises.'* 

Without possessing the merit and honour of being a member of the Society ; yet to 
Twne can I yield in sentiments of regard and veneration for this Pious Institute, as 
the Council of Trent styles it, (25 Session 16 ch. de Reg. ) To witness its hereditary 
spirit of eeal and charity throughout the English Provinee, is, to me, a source of the 
highest gratification. For this cheering spectacle^ all the friends of Religion are greatly 
indebted to you \ for you made the principles of your holy Founder, as developed in his 
Rules and Constitutions, the Guide and Polar Star of your government. That your days 
may be many, to enlighten by your wisdom, to direct by your espperietice, and to edify by 
yur religious virtues ^ is the cordial wish of 

Yew faithful friend and servant, 

GEORGE OLJFER. 

St, Nicholas* Priory, Exeter, 
31 July, 1838. 



fiRRATA. 

19. Column 1 . for the year " 1965" read " 1615'* 

i7. col. 1. fen " nimmum read " nimium" 

72. col. 1. for " notwith stand'* veeLdnoiwithstandini/* 

105. col. 1. for " 1787" lead 1717" 

107. col. 1, for " iteram'* read •* iterum*' 

109. col. 1. peculiam" read " peculium" 

1 12. Note, *' danger of talent" read *• degree of talent" 

143. " More, Hippolite" born *' 1801" not " 1081" 

174. col. 2. for " Patur'' read ' ' pater'* 

202. col. 1. for ** Fortescutorem read Fortescutoruni'* 

202. col. I. for" Belage" read ♦» Belgice'' 

202. col. I. last line for *• gressus'* read '* gressu'* 

212.C0I. 2. for '* proputalo read propatuto** 

222. col. 2. for " Pidei" read " Fidei" 

267. " Retor, Kildarde," read " Rector, Kildare," 

172. col. 2, for " Finburg" read " Friburg" 

273. sanctai saocta, &c. &c. &c. 

Several other mistakes in letters and in punctuation will suggest therajdivtk to tho 
Reader, which he will kindly «zcuse, and correct with his pen. 



HISTORICAL CATECHISM, 

CHIEFLY RELATING TO T UE 

ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY. 



Question. Who was the Founder of the 
Society of Jesus ? 

Answer. St. Ignatius, of Loyola, 

Q. How many, and who were his first 
companions ? 

A. They were nine, viz. 

1. F. Peter Faber. He died at Rome, 
1 August, 1546, setatis 40. 

2. The great St. Francis Xaverius, 
who died at St. Sancian, 2 December, 1552, 
set. 65. 

3. F. James Laynez, who died at Rome 
19 January, 1565, set. 53. 

4. F. Alphonsus Salmeron, who died 
at Naples, 13 February, 1585, set. 69. 

5. Simon Rodriguez, who died at Lis- 
bon, 15 July. 1579. 

6. Nicholas Bobadilla, who died at 
Loretto, 23 September, 1590, set. 79. 

7. Claudius Jay, who died at Vienna , 6 
August, A.D. 1552. 

8. John Codurius, who died at Rome, 
29 August, 1541, set. 33. 

9. Paschasius Broet, who died at 
Paris, 14 September, 1562, set. 55. 

Q. When was the Society Confirmed by 
the Holy See ? 

A. The Bull of its Confirmation Regi- 
mini militantis ecclesice, was published 
by Pope Paul III. 27 September, 1540; 
but his Holiness then restricted the number 
of Members to 60. This restriction was 
entirely removed by his Bull Injunctum 
nobis, 14 March, 1543. By his successive 
Bulls Cum inter, Exponi nobis. Licet 
debitum, he was pleased to confer many 
favours and privileges on the infant Society. 

Q. When did the Jesuits first begin to 
open schools in Europe? 

A. In the year 1546, or six years after 
the confirmation o! their Order, when they 
were put in the possession of the College at 
Gandia, by its Founder, the celebrated 
Francis Borgia. We may add, however, 
that they had undertaken the charge of the 
Royal College at Goa in the preceding 
year. 

Q. How long did St. Ignatius survive the 
foundation of his Order? 

A. Nearly 16 years ; for he died at Rome 
31 July, 1556, set. 65; 

Q. When was he canonized ? 

A. The Bull of the Canonization pre- 
pared by Pope Gregory XV, 12 March, 
1622, was published by his Successor Urban 
VIII, 6 August, 1623. The Saint's Beati- 
fication had been pronounced by Paul V, in 
1609. 

Q. Did St. Ignatius entertain the wish of 
extending the Society to England ? 



A. Yes, and had even commissioned F. 
Peter Ribadeneira, in 1555, to carry this 
wish into execution ; but owing to the 
Saint's death in the following year, Queen 
Mary's decease shortly after, and the un- 
settled stale of public affairs in the early 
part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, as also the 
inadequate number of fit members, this 
work of zeal and usefulness was delayed 
for several years. 

Q. At whose instigation were Jesuit 
Missionaries first sent to England? 

A. At Dr. Al!en"s, who obtained of Pope 
Gregory XIII, an express Order for this 
purpose, directed to F. Everard Mercurian, 
the 4th General of the Society, Dr. Allen 
assured his Holiness, that this employment 
of Jesuits was " not only the earnest desire 
and petition of the Seminary at Rheims, but 
of the best and principal Catholics of Eng- 
land."— f. Persons' M.S. Life of F. 
Edmund Campian. 

Q. Who was Dr. Allen ? 

A, He was born at Rosehall in Lanca- 
shire in 1532, and rose by his talents to be 
regarded as a star of the first magnitude in 
the University of Oxford. When Queen 
Elizabeth proclaimed herself the Champion 
of Protestantism, the Doctor threw aside 
all his preferments, and retired to Lou vain. 
A few years later he settled at Douay, and 
became a rallying point to several English 
Catholics, who, not being able to live with 
their conscience at home, had fixed upon 
voluntary banishment. But the Doctor's 
original intention *' in admitting such resort 
and convictus was not, (as he often affirmed 
to F, Persons,) that they might return to 
England to teach and preach the Catholic 
Faith ; but it was for the purpose of mutual 
encouragement in virtue and learning, and 
the easier practice of their religious duties." 
Happily, however, this band of Confessors 
became inspired with the noble ambition of 
perpetuating themselves, and keeping alive 
the lamp of Orthodoxy in their native coun- 
try. Wiih this view, Dr. Allen, in 1568, 
opened a Seminary at Douay, and the suc- 
cessful e^say of the Rev. Lewis Barlow, 
the first Missionary who left it for England, 
animated their hopes and courage to per- 
severe in this Apostolic undertaking. 

To this illustrious President we may apply 
what is said of Judas Macchabseus dire eta 
est salus in manu ejus : Icetijicabat Jacob 
in operibus suis—et conyregavit pere 
untes. In scscuttmi memoria ejus in 
benedictione" lib, L Macchab. 

Q, Did the Fathers of the Society concur 



VI. 



with hand and heart in this pious and useful 
enterprise ? 

A. None , more so. They evinced the 
most disinterested and honourabla zeal in 
promoting the studies and in helping the 
pecuniary wants of this invaluable instilu- 
tion, " The first certain stay, (says F. 
Persons,) that the Seminary of Douay ever 
had, was Fifty Crowns per month, which 
F. Anthony Possevinus provided from 
Rome by tho General's Order." When 
the Faction in Douay, encouraged by Re- 
quesens, successor to the Duke of Alva, 
obliged this community to quit the Town 
in Holy week, 1578, and to take refuge at 
Rheims (where they rasided until their 
honourable recal 15 years later) F. Persons 
exerted himself so effectually in their favor 
with Philip II, King of Spain, as to obtain 
in 1582, the Annual pension of 2000 Ducats 
for the Seminary. Again, when Mr. 
George Gilbert died at Rome, late in the 
year 1583, the General Claudius Aquaviva 
wrote to Dr. Allen, that the deceased had 
given to the Noviceship of St. Andrew at 
Rome, 800 Crowns —that although the 
Order was grateful for this proof of benevo- 
lence, yet, believing that it would be a 
more acceptable service to God, if the whole 
was disposed in opem AngliccB natzonis, 
he had actually placed it at Dr. Allen's 
disposal, eiiher to relieve the exiles, or for 
a burse to support an agent at Rome, or for 
the better maintenance of his College at 
Rheims, or for any other pious work he 
should most approve. The cordiality and 
friendly feeling of the Jesuits, this great 
and good man was always ready to acknow- 
ledge. In his beautiful letter to F. Eve- 
rard Mercurian, 4th General, S, J. dated 
Rheims, 26 October, 1578, he says, *' dedi 
operam semper, ut nostri non aliis quam 
vestris Studiis, InstUutis , Moribus (quibus 
nihil est hodie, vel ad doctrinam expedi- 
tius, vel ad pietatem sincerius, vel quod 
maxime nunc requirimus, ad zelum lu- 
erandarum animarum accommodatius ) 
preecipue imbuerentur." To them he 
confessed himself indebted for his promotion 
to the Purple 7 August, 1387, and until his 
happy death ho never failed to exert the 
influence of his high station, in protecting 
and advancing the interests of the Order. 

In a letter of F. Henry Garnet to the 
above mentioned General Aquaviva, dated 
from London, 16 April, 1596, I read these 
remarkable words " CoUegii Rhemensis 
Presses (Doctor Richardus Barret) tes- 
tatum fecit, plus se a me, et S. Martyre 
Sotovello, qui nunquam Seminarii cujusvis 
alumni jfuimus, accepissepecunioe, quam 
Sceculares Presbyteri omnes contulerint." 
In those days, the spirit of Religion promp- 
ted the Regular and Secular Clergy, to cul- 
tivate the most unreserved intercourse, the 
most brotherly love and candour. And 
blessed were the fruits of this upen-hearted- 



ness ; for never did religion flourish so 
much.* 

Q. You said Dr. Allen was the original 
Adviser of employing Jesuits in the English 
Mission. Pray who were the first mem- 
bers selected for this purpose ? 

A. F. Robert Persons, w^ho was named 
Superior, and F. Edmund Campian. 

Q. When did they reach England ? 

A, In the month of June, A. D. 1580. 

Q, Did their Missionary career last for 
a considerable time? 

A. No. F. Campian was apprehended 
about a twelvemonth later, and committed 
to the Tower, whence he was brought to be 
executed I December, 1581; but just before 
his condemnation, F. Persons had quitted 
England. Though absent, he laboured 
with indefatigable zeal for the good of his 
countrymen, by publishing many learned 
and useful Works, and by procuring consi> 
derable funds for the education of youlh. 

Q. Did any other Fathers succeed the 
last mentioned in the English Mission ? 

A. Yes; but sparingly for some time. 
Fathers Jasper Haywood, William Holt, 
and Thomas Gotham arrived here in the 
latter part of 1581 : F. William AVeston 
in 1584: FF. Robert Southwell and Henry 
Garnet in 1586. During the Superiority 
of F. Garnet, the actual Members of the So- 
ciety in England, increased to 40. 

Q. How were these Missionaries go- 
verned ? 

A. By a Vice-Prefect, or local Superior 
appointed by the Prefect of the Mission, 
who resided at Rome. 

Q. Who were these Prefects at Rome ? 

A. F. Persons till his death in 1610. 
F. Thomas Owen until his death, 6 De- 
cember, 1618. 

Q, And who were the Vice-Prefects ? 

1. Robert Persons. 

2. Jasper Haywood. 

3. William Weston. 

4. Henry Garnet 

5. Richard Holtfay. 

6. Robert Jones. 

7. Michael Walpole, (p. 374, More.) 

8. Richard Blount. 

* I know nothing better v/ritten of the spirit and 
charity, and labors of the Society, than the 21st 
Chapter, Part II oi " Roma Sancta," by that Pro- 
digy of learning and piety. Dr. Gregory Martin. 
The Original Folio MS. is at Ugbroolse, containing 
about 368 pp. was finished 9April, 15S1. 

Dr. Kellison also, 4th President of Douay College, 
in his Preface to the Hierarchy thus expresses him- 
self " I am no Regular; but I honour all Religious 
Orders confirmed by the Church, and I esteem him 
no good Catholic, who doth not esteem them. I 
profess but one Order, yet I affect all: and so, 
though r be of one side, I side not; though 
I be of one party, yet I am not partial. I 
praise all Orders of the Church; but 1 dispraise 
none. I so extol one Order, as I depress not the 
other. I so right one, as I wrong not the other ; yet 
in righting all, I commend all, because all are com- 
mendable." Indeed every good Christian would 
adopt the sentiment of St. Paul " Omni modo, sive 
per occasionem, sive per veritatem Christus annun-. 
tietur : et In hocgaudeo, sed etgaudebo" Phil 1, 18 



VII. 



Under ihe Government of F. Blount the 
English Members of the Society amounted 
nearly to two hundred, including 40 Pro- 
fessed Fathers. Such an increase induced 
F. Mutius Vitelleschi, the 6th General, S.J. 
to raise the Mission in 1619 to a Vice- 
Province, and he named F. Blount, Vice- 
Provincial. This prudent and faithful Su- 
perior began to organize and model his 
District according to the manner of the 
Society. He erected in November, 1622, 
(p. 446, Mori Hist. Prov. Angl.) the Col- 
lege of St, Ignatius, which comprised the 
Members residing in the Counties of Mid- 
dlesex, Surry, Kent, Berks, and Herts, 

Sod. The College of St. Alo^ysius (p. 
274, Mori Hist. Prov.) comprehending 
Lancashire, Cheshire, and Westmorland. 

3rd. The College of Si. Francis Xavier, 
embracing South Wales, Monmouthshire, 
Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire. 

These Colleges had proper Funds and a 
local Superior called Rector. In considera- 
tion of the rapid increase of Members, the 
above-mentioned General, by Letters Pa- 
tent of 21 January, 1623, erected England 
into a Province of the Society, and consti- 
tuted this F. Blount its first Provincial. 

Q. Were there not other Colleges ? 

A. Yes : by degrees five more were en- 
dowed. 

1. The College of the Holy Apostles; the 
funds of which were provided by that great 
Benefactor of the Society, Robert, the third 
Lord Petre, about the year 1633. This 
comprised Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and 
Cambiidgeshire. 

2. Of the Immaculate Conception, in- 
cluding Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Notts, 
and Rutland. 

3. The College of Thomas of Can- 
terbury, containing Sussex, Wilts, Hanta 
and Dorset. N.B. It was raised from a 
Residence to a College in 1676. An. Lit. 

4. St. Chad's, Staffordshire. It is first 
mentioned in 1670, as distinct from St. 
Aloysias' College. 

5. St, Dominic's,* but gsaerally called 
St, Hugh's, after the year 1675.— This 
comprised Lincolnshire, 

Q. Were there not some Minor Depart- 
ments, called Residences ? 

A. Yes : and they were 6 in number. 

1. St. MichaeVs ^Co. York. 

2. St. John the Evangelist — the Bishop- 
rick of Durham and Cumberland. 

3. St. George's — Worcaster and War- 
wick. 

4 Si. Mar_j/'«— Oxford, Northampton, 
Bucks, and Bedford. 

5. St. Winefrid'si erected I beliere in 
1670— North Wales and Salop. 

• Hoc Anno (1675) Residentla S. Dominic! aucto- 
rltate P. N. lo. Paull Ollvae ia Collegii nomen 
transiit." An. Lit. 

t In fol. 16 of Vol. 1 of Register of Edmund Staf- 
ford. Bishop of Exeter. I read, " Sancta) Winefridsa 
Virginia Corpus et Reliquiae— in Ecclesla Conven- 

b. 



6. St. Stanislaus — Devon and Cornwall. 
This Division continued until the Suppres- 
sion in 1773. 

Q. Were not some Colleges abroad under 
the direction of the English Jesuits ? 

A. Yes: some were under their direction, 
and others were absolutely their own pro- 
perty. 

In the Ist place, the English College at 
Rome was under their direction. This Es» 
tablishment was originally the Hospital 
dedicated to the Holy Trinity and Sti Tho- 
mas* of Canterbury, with a rental of about 
2,000 Ducats for the support of two Chap- 
lains and the maintenance of English Pil- 
rims.t Pope Gregory XI II converted it 
into a College, and enlarged its endowment. 
Dr. Maurice Cleuock, one of its two Chap- 
lains, was nominated the 1st Rector, but 
the event soon proved that he was little qaali- 
fidd for that office. The majority of the 
students petitioned to be governed by the 
Jesuits : the General, F. Everard Mercurian, 
refused the charge: and it was not until 
Pope Gregory Xlll, 19 March, 1579, pe- 
remptorily commanded him to supply the 
College with Jesuit Superiors, that he could 
be induced to submit to this additional 
burthen. Under their fostering care, the 

* That the English Hospital at Rome was highly 
favoured, encouraged and suppported by the 
Bishops in England is manifest from a Docum ent in 
the Register of Edmund Stafford. Biahop of Exeter , 
fol. 22-3 Vol 1. It bears date 30 November, 1398, 
and he says, " hujus hospitalis Fundationem, Con- 
structionem ac Dotationem Gregorius Undectmut 
auctoritate Apostolica confirmavit (1370-1378.) 
The curious Reader will be pleased with an inter- 
esting Report of the Charities of this Hospital pp. 
63-88, Part XVII Collectanea Topographies, &c. 
London 1837. 

1 Stowe says it was founded by Robert Bray - 
brook. Bishop of London, and other devout En- 
glishmen about 1380. Dr Gregory Martin, in the 
MS. before mentioned, dates the foundation from 
13S1, in the Popedom of Innocent VI, Hisdescrip. 
tion of it in that M S. is the best I have seen "The 
Church very commodious with six altars : chaplains 
and brethren within the house to say Mass and 
other Service there eight, with their Custos or Prin- 
cipal. Here are received ail Englishmen without 
exception fespeclally Pilgrims and the poorer sort) 
for eight days, and Upon consideration of the Par- 
ties necessity, for double and triple and longer, with 
meat, drinli and lodging very competent and honest, 
and money also according to the Parlies' necessities. 
Here are received the sicli of our Nation if there be 
some. The Revenues are by the year about 1495 
Crowns, rising of houses especially. The Govern- 
ment pertainethto the Cardinal Protector of our na- 
tion, an d to the Chaplains or Brethren within the 
house, which have their Custos, and to them of our 
Nation abroad in the City of the better sort, which 
by order of Statute are made Brethren All which 
made a solemn Brotherhood and Congregation, and 
meet together diverse times about matters of the 
Hospital — For the greater benefit of our Nation the 
Seminary has been placed by his Holiness in the 
Hospital, and the Custos with certain other officers 
removed to another house of our Nation hard by, 
where he hath to receive the Pilgrims and Travel- 
lers as before. So that for the Hospital, there is 
both Seminary and Hospital— God be blessed for his 
unspeakable gifts." 



tuali Sti Thomae Martyris extra rauros villa 
Saloptw reconduntur, et etiam continent ur," (1397,) 



viii. 



College became the prolific Parent of 
Priests and Martyrs, and coniinued to sup* 
port a distinguished reputation until the 
suppression of the Society in 1773. 

2. For a short time there was a Gollege 
at Eu in Normandy. Soon after F. Per- 
sons left England, Henry de Lorraine, 
Duke of Guise, gave him one hundred 
pounds, as a yearly pension, for a Semi- 
nary. The French Fathers of the Society 
accomodated them witli a convenient house 
in the Town. This Establishment conti- 
nued from 1582, until 23 December, 1688, 
when that religious Prince was perfidiously 
murdered at Blois. 

3. To F. Person's influential exertions, 
our Nation was indebted for the endowment 
of St. Alban's Seminary at Valladolid in 
1589, of St. Herraenegild's at Seville ; St. 
George's at St. Lucar ; also of a Residence 
at Lisbon, all erected in the course of the 
year 1592. 

4. As for St. Omer's College, an annual 
pension of 10,000 Crowns was assigned to 
it in 1593, by that munificent Patron of 
Catholicity, King Philip the II, of Spain. 
This Foundation flourished with great 
splendour until the arbitrary expulsion of 
the English Fathers, without even the sha- 
dow of Judicial Process, in August, 1762. 
The Schools were thence removed to Bru- 
ges: here again in October, 1773, the 
Faith of the Austrian Government was 
basely violated by the seizure and disper- 
sion of the Community, and the plunder of 
their property. 

Q. But where was the En_5lish Novici- 
ate? 

A. Originally at Louvain. The Lady 
Aloysia de Caravajal of Valladolid be- 
queathed 22 December, 1604, twelve thou- 
sand ducats towards tlie foundation of a 
Noviciate. In consequence St. John's 
house at Louvain was hired for the purpose 
until something more eligible should offer : 
and it was used as such from 1606, until 
Nov. 1614, when they removed to a very 
convenient Residence in the City of Liege. 
This had been obtained by the active exer- 
tions of F. John Gerard and the liberality 
of George Talbot, of Grafton,* Esq, who in 
the sequel became the 9th Earl of Shrews- 
bury, and died 2 April, 1630. The pious, 
valiant, and munificent Prince Maximilian, 
Duke of Bavaria, at their recommendation, 
befriended this rising establishment. His 
splendid endowment bearing date 8 Septem- 
ber, 1626, may be seen in the 9th Book of 
F. More's Hist. Prov. Angl, This truly no- 
ble Benefactor died in 1651, set. 70. 

In 1622, the Noviciate was removed to 

• N B, The Grafton Estate was forfeited to 
the Crown bv the attainder of Humphry Stafford, 
Esq. K. Henry VII, 17 July, 1486, bestowed it on 
Sir Gilbert Talbot, as a reward of his faithful 
services, and intailed it on the heirs male of his 
Body lawfully begotten. 



Watten* situate about two leagues from 
St. Omer, and proved in the sequel a 
prolific nursery of Apostolical and Religious 
Spirit: the College of Liege was appro- 
priated to the Students of Philosophy and 
Divinity : and so it continued until the 
suppression of the Society. Besides the 
above-mentioned Colleges, we must men- 
tion the House of the Third Probation at 
Ghent, begun in 1620 (p. 425 More's Hist) 
by the pious generosity of Ann (Dacre) 
the Countess of Arundell and widow of 
Philip, the Earl of Arundell, who had died 
in the Tower of London, 19 October, 1595, 
not without suspicion of being poisoned, 
after ten years and a half imprisonment (p, 
188, More's Hist.)t It was opened about 
August, 1621. J Hither the veterans, 
(Emeriti) often retired, to prepare them, 
selves for the last passage into eternity. 

Q. Will you be pleased to furnish me 
with a list of the Generals of the Society ? 

A. Willingly, Sir. 

1. St. Ignatius, elected 1 April, 1541 .• 
obiit31 July, 1556, set. 65. 

2. F, James Laynez, elected 2 July, 
1558: obiit 10 January, 1565, eet. 53. 

3. St. Francis Borgia, elected 2 July, 
1565 ; obiit 1 October, 1572, set. 62. 

4j. Everard Mercurian, elected 23 
April, 1 573-. obiit 1 August, 1580. 

5. Claudius Aquaviva, elected 19 
February, 1581: obiit 31 January, 1615, 
set. 72. 

6. MuTius ViTELLEscHi, clected 16 No- 
vember, 1615 ; obiit 9 Februaiy, 1645, set. 
82. 

7. Vincent Caraffa, elected 7 January, 
1646: obiit 8 June, 1649, set. 65. 

* Clementia, Countess of Flanders, founded in 
1072, a Church at Watten, in honor of St. Mary, St. 
Nicholas, and St. Richerius, to which was subse- 
quently attached a College of regular Canons. On 
its dissolution Pope Pius V. annexed it to the New 
See of St. Omer — With the consent of his Dean and 
Chapter, and of the Court of Brussels, the Church 
and Manor were conveyed in perpetuity by the 
worthy Bishop James Blase O, S. F. for a Novitiate 
of the English Jesuits. This grant was ratified 
by Gen. Aquaviva, 8 September, 1612, and Gen. 
Mutius Vitelleschi. 22 October, 1616. N.B. Abbe 
Mann's account of this, in his Short statement of 
the English Caih. houses (13 Vol, Archaeol) isincor. 
rect. 

t F. William Weston however, in his Latin Au- 
tobiography, written at the commencement of the 
17th Century, (and who had reconciled the Earl to 
the Catholic Faith, and to whom the Earl, on his 
death bed, left the Breviary that be was in the ha- 
bit of using) whilst he mentions the report of poi- 
son, candidly admits "^po tamen, quamvis d qito^arn 
Catholico, gut turn ei puer in Turri inserviet: ^ 
sim percunctatus, nunquam certb rem scire poiui. ' 
But he afBrms as a fact, that Q Elizabeth had otfci-e- 
to the Earl his liberty, if he would confer on relig. -> 
with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This propo?^_J 
was refused by his Lordship, choosing rather to s.J" 
ferafBiction with the people of God, thantoerjc; 
the short pleasure of temporal liberty— esteen ifiir 
the persecutions of a christian greater riches, thar 
the sinful and false joys of worldly happiness." 

t See p, 131. Flandria illustrala, Vol. 1. 



ix. 



8. Francis PiccoLiMiNi, elected 21 De- 
cember, 1649: obiit 17 June, 1661, set. 69. 

9. Alexander Gottifred, elected 21 
January, 1652: obiit 12 March, 1652, set. 
d8. 

10. GoswiN Nickel, elected 17 March, 
1652 : obiit 31 July, 1664, eet. 82. 

11. John Paul Oliva, who had been 
elected " Vicarius Generalis perpetuus 
cum jure succedendi 7 Junii\G6l," was 
immediately invested with the goTernment 
of the Society at Nickel's death. This most 
excellent General died 26 November, 1681, 
set. 81 

12. Charles de Noyelle, elected 5 
July, 1682 : obiit 12 December, 1686. 

18. Thyrsus Gonzales, elected 6 July 
1687 : obiit 27 October, 1705. 

14. Michael Angelus Tambueini, elec- 
ted 31 January, 1706; obiit 28 February, 
1730. 

15. Francis Retz, elected 30 November, 
1730: obiit, 19 November, 1750, set. 78. 

16. Ignatius Viconti, elected 4 July, 
1761 : obiit 4 May, 1755. 

17. Aloysius Centurioni, elected 30 
November, 1755: obiit, 2 October, 1757- 

18. Laurence Ricci, elected 21 May, 
1758. The Brief of Clement XIV, for sup- 
pressing the Society, dated 21 July, 1773, 
was put in execution 16 August following. 
The Father, contrary to all forms of justice, 
was thrown into jail, where without trial 
he was kept a close prisoner, until death 
released him, 24 November, 1775 ! ! ! set. 
72. 

IN RUSSIA 

1. Stanislaus Czerniewicz, the Vicar 
General, was elected General 17 October, 
1782 : obiit 18 July, 1785, set. 57. 

2. GABRrEL Lenkiewiez, elected 8 Oc- 
tober, 1785 : obiit 21 October, 1798, 
set. 77. 

3. Francis Kahew, elected 12 Febru. 
ary, 1799 : obiit 4 August, (23 July, V. S- 
in Ru3sia) 1802, ast. 71. 

4. Gabriel Gruber, elected 22 Octo- 
ber, 1802, obiit 6 April, 1805. eet 67. 

5. Thaddeus Brzozowski, elected in 
1805. At the Restoration of the Society, 
7August, 1814, by the Bull of Pope Pius 
VII, Soluiludo omnium Ecclesiarum, he 
became General of the whole Body, but 
never removed to Rome, dying at Polosko. 
(the Russian Government refusing him per- 
mission to quit for Italy) on the 5lh of 
February, 1820, eet. 72. 

6. Aloysius Fortis, elected 18 October, 
1820 ; obiit 29 January, 1829, get. 81. 

John Rothaan, Vice-Provincial of 
Italy, elected 9 July, 1829, set. 44. 

Q. Be pleased to furnish me with the suc- 
cession of the English Provincials ? 

A. I. F. Richard Blount appointed 21 
January, IG23, and continued in office until 
late in 1635. 

2. F. Henry More, who held this dig- 
nity for seven years. 



3. F. Edward Knott served the office 
from 1643 to 1646: and was again appointed 
22 March 1653, for another Triennium. 

4. Henry Silisdon, was Provincial 
from 1646 to 1650. 

5. Francis Foster, filled the office from 
1650 to 1653. 

6. Richard Barton, from 1656 tol660. 

7. Edward Courtenay from 1660 to 
1664. 

8. John Clark, followed till 1667. 

9. Joseph Simeons till his death in the 
summer of 1671. 

10. George Gray, till 7 September, 
1674. 

11. Richard Strange was in office for 
three years. 

22. Thomas Whitbread, (alias Har- 
court) was apprehended soon after his ap- 
pointment, and was the murdered victim 
of Oates' malice and perjury, 30 June, 
1679. 

13. John Warner succeeded and re- 
mained Provincial three years. 

14. John Keynes was in o9£ce from 
1683 to 1689. 

15. William Morgan, declared Pro- 
vincial 22 August, 1689, and died about 
five weeks after. 

16. John Clare, (alias Sir John War- 
ner) declared F. Morgan's successor 4 De- 
cember, 1689. 

17. Anthony Lucas, appointed in 1693, 
and died in office the same year. 

18. William Mumford succeeded in 
1694. 

19. Henry Humberstone, from 1697 to 
1701. 

20. James Blakb, declared 3 April, 
1701. 

21. Peter Hammerton succeeded in 
1704. 

22. Lewis Sabran followed from 1709 
to 1712. 

23. Thomas Parker, (alias Culcheth) 
from 1712 to 1716. 

24. RicH4RD Plowden followed for 
three years. 

25. John Edisford, from 1719 to 1721. 

26. Robert Beeston presided for three 
years. 

27. Thomas Lawson succeeded, but 
resigned in 1725. 

28. John Turbeville, from 20 May, 
1725 to 1731. 

29. John ( alias Richard) Richardson 
remained in office two years, 

30. Levinus Browne governed the 
Province from 1 October, 1733 to 20 July, 
1737. 

31. Henry Bolt (alias A/c' Intosh) from 
1737 to 1740. 

32. Charles Smireburn from 1740 to 
1744. 

33. Henry Sheldon from 1744 to 1751. 

34. Philip Carteret, declared provin- 
cial 3 October, 1751. 



X. 



35. Henry Corbie succeeded 17 July, 
175«. 

36. James Den set entered on office in 
1762. 

37. Nathaniel Elliot followed in 1766. 

38. Thomas More declared 19 July, 
1769 ; and witnessed the Suppression S.J. 
in 1773. 

39. Maemaduke Stone, declared Pro- 
vincial on the feast of the Ascension 19 
May, 1803. 

40. Charles Plowden succeeded 8 
September, 1817* 

41. Nicholas Sewell succeeded 1821. 

42. Charles Brooke declared 15 Feb- 
ruary, 1826. 

43. Richard Norris declared 28 May, 
1832. 

44. John Bird, declared 24 June, 1838. 

45. F. Randal Lythgoe declared 14 
September, 1841. 

N.B. In the course of this work many 
names will occur of natives of other coun- 
tries besides England ; but they have either 
been aggregated to the English Province, 
or have been appointed to preside by the 
General of the Order, or have lived or died 
in some of their Missions or Colleges. 
Some also have been educated since the 
Suppression of the Order^ in the Pontifical 
Seminary at Liege or Stonyhurst, and 
though not actually Jesuits, have usually 
served their Missions. 

Q. Will you be pleased to give me the 
series of the Rectors of St. Omer*s Col- 
lege ? 

A, Yes, viz. 

1. William Flock, of Suffolk, appointed 
in 1592, See pp. 162-461 of More's Hist. 

2. John Foucart, succeeded in 1594. 

3. Giles Schondonkus, 1600. 

4. Philip Dentiers 1617. 
6. William Baldwin 1622. 

6. Thomas Worsley, followed late in 
1632. 

7. Thomas Port. 

8. Edward Courtenay declared Rec- 
tor 27 July, 1646. 

9. Henry More succeeded inJuly, 1649, 
N.B. In 1657 he was re-appointed 27 

July, on the death of F. T. Bapihorpe, and 
continued in o^ije t'ire3 y^irs, 

10. Charles Daecy, declared 5 August, 
1652. 

11. Thomas Babthorpe 16 February, 
1656. 

12. Richard Barton succeeded F. 
More, September, 1660, and died in his 9ih 
year of office. 

13. Thomas Cart declared 13 June, 
1669. 

14. Richard Ashby 28 August, 1672. 

15. Thomas Stapleton, 27 March, 
1679. 

16. John Warner followed 31 July 1683. 
During his Rectorship, we find in the 

An. Lit. " Collegiixm in fine anni 1684, 
conflagravit: novum multo splendidius 



multoque commodius excifatum." 

17. Michael Constable succeeded 8 
April, 1688. 

18. Edward Petre declared Rector 29 
April, 1693, 

19. William Walton succeeded F. Pe- 
tre 16 December, 1697. 

20. Henry Humberstone 1 1 December, 
1701. 

21. Edward Slaughter 28 April, 1705. 

22. Richard Plowden 16 April, 1709, 
N.B. He was re-appointed 22 May, 

1725, for another Triennium. 

23. Lewis Sabran 12 June, 1712. 

24. Francis Powell 28 October, 17 15. 

25. William Darrell 5 July, 1727. 
N.B. He died in office 28 February, 

1721. 

26. Francis TaRBEViLLE declared 29 
July, 1721. 

27. James Gooden 14 March, 1722, 

28. Richard Hyde appointed 12 May, 
1728. 

N.B. Re appointed from 31 July, 1742 
to June, 1746. 

29. rnoMAS EccLESTON declared 11 
August, 1731. 

30. Joseph Constable 22 September, 
1737i 

31; Perseus Plowden declared 22 Oc- 
tober. 1739. 

32. Charles Wells succeeded F. R. 
Hyde, 1746. 

33. Nathaniel Elliott in October, 
1748. 

31. John Darell. 17 Sept. 1752, 

35. Francis Scarisbrick, May, 1759. 

He witnessed the expulsion from St. 
Omer in the Autumn of 1762. 

AT BRUGES 

F. Nathaniel Elliott, Sep. 1762. 

F. Thomas Lawson, 24 Feb. 1766. 

F. Thomas Stanley, 21 Dec. 1769. 

F. Thomas Angxer, 1772. 

Q. Can you supply the succession of the 
Rectors at Liege College ? 

A. There is some difficulty infixing theaj 
precisely during the first 33 years ; but 1 
think this may be surmounted. From that 
period all is clearly known. 

1. John Gerard governed the House 
from the day of takiag possession of the 
Premises, 1 November, 1814, until the year 
1620. 

2. Henry Silisdos- succeeded and was 
certainly in office two years at least. 

3. Owen Shelley, I have seen a let- 
ter from General Vitelleschi, dated 25 Sep- 
tember, 1625, addressed to F. Shelly as 
Rector. 

4. Robert Stafford occurs Hector in 
1629. 

5. George Duckett was certainly 
Rector 18 September, 1637. 

6. Edward Knott occurs Rector in 
April, 1640. 

7. Francis Wallis, 

8. Joseph Simeons declared Rector in 
165 



xi. 



9. John Clark succeeded 15 May, 1655. 
He was replaced for another Triennium 

between 20 Jan. 1668, and July, 1671. 

10. Edward Worsley, 2 November, 
1638. 

11. John Clayton succeeded 11 June, 
1662. 

12. John Stevens, on the death of 
Clayton, 29 November, 1663. 

13. Edward Courtenay, 20 October, 
1666. 

14. Anthony Terrill, 7 July, 1671. 

15. Thomas Clifford, declared Rec- 
tor, 29 July, A. D. 1674. 

16. John Warner, succeeded 2 Jan- 
uary, 1678. 

17. John Keynes, 29 January, 1680. 

18. Thomas Stapleton, 1 August, 1683. 

19. Anthony Lucas, 3 March, 1686. 

20. William Morgan, 15 August, 1688, 
but declared Provincial in the autumn of 
that year. 

21. John Dormer, succeeded 4 Novem- 
ber, 1689. 

22. George Busby, 23 April, 1691. 

23. John Persall, entered on office 19 
June, 1694. 

24. Thomas Parker, succeeded from 4 
March, 1698, to September, 1701; re-ap- 
pointed from 15 October, 1716, to June, 
1720, and from June 1727, to July, 1731. 

25. Edward Slaughter was Rector 
nearly four years, from 16 September 1701. 

26. Richard Plowden, from 15 June, 
1705, to 1708 J again declared Rector from 
1720, to 1724. 

27. William Darrel began office 17 
November, 1708. 

28. Francis Powell succeeded F. 
Darrell, 29 January, 1712. 

29. Thomas Eberson, declared Rector, 
18 May, 1724. 

30. Edmund Plowden, declared Rector 
18 July, 1731. 

31. Henry Bolt, or Mc. Infosh, 17 
October, 1734, again from 1740 to 1743. 

32. Levinus Browne, entered office 20 
July, 1737. 

33. Charles Roels, succeeded F. Bolt 
7 September, 1743, and was Rector 16 
years; being re-appointed 30 November, 
1752, on F. Jackson's death ; he remained in 
office until 1759. 

34. John Jackson, declared Rector in 
1752; but died 19 June, that year. 

35. Edward Withie succeeded F. 
Roels, 8 May, 1759. 

36. Francis Scarisbrick, in December 
1764, 

37. John Howard, entered on office 29 
February, 1768; and saw the suppression 
of his House, 9 September, 1773. 

After the dissolution of the Soc. the Prince 
of Liege restored the House to this F. John 
Howard, and under the name of " The 
Academy" it served as a place of Education 
for the English Catholic Gentry, as well as 
a Seminary for Ecclesiastics. F. Howard 

C. 



presided over the new Establishment until 
his death, 16 October, 1783. He was suc- 
ceeded by F. William Strickland^ a man 
of superior merit, who after intoducing 
some considerable improvements, delivered 
up the government to F, Marmaduke 
Stone. This last respected and conciliating 
Superior continued in office until the final 
emigration to Stonyhurst* m August, 1794. 

Since 27 August, 1794, when the com- 
munity was put in possession of the premi- 
ses by the late Thomas Weld, Esq., of hap- 
py memory, the series of Rectors is as 
follows : — 

1. F. Marmaduke Stone. 

2. F. Nicholas Sbwall, October. 3 
1808, to January, 1813. 

N.B. Reappointed on his successor's 
death. 

3. F. John Weld, entered on office in 
January, 1813, and died Rector 7 April, 
1816. 

4. F. Charles Plowden, declared 
Provincial and Rector, 8 September, 1817. 

6. F. Joseph Tristram succeeded F, 
Plowden, as Rector, 26 December, 1819. 

6. F. Richard Norris, 21 August, 1827. 

7. F. Richard Parker, 20 June, 1832. 

8. F. James Brownbill, 26 May, 1836* 

9. F. Francis Daniel, announced Rec- 
tor of Stonyhurst 3 June, 1839. 

10. Rev. Andrew Barrow, appointed 
16 July, 1842. 

Q. Be pleased to supply the list of the 
Masters of Novices ? 

A. I will, to the best of my power. 

1. Thomas Talbot had the charge of 
the Novitiate at St. John's House, Louvaio, 
from 1606, until the removal to Liege, in 
1614. 

2. John Gerard united in his own per- 
son the offices of Rector and Master of the 
Novices at Liege, until the year 1620. 

3. Henry Silisdon, who did the same 
for two years, when he removed with the 
Novices to Watten,-\- and was the first Su- 
perior of that House. 

4. Edward Knott, succeeded, I believe, 
in 1627. 

• Situ loci nil amaenius aut jucundius, Regale 
illud aedificium de Stonyhurst, ubi vivarium damis 
refertum, piscaria insignia, aquaeductus nobiles et 
ut omnia dicam hortus, floribas et arboribus, jucun- 
dis juxta atque utilibus undiqu consitus ; in hoc - 
Labyrinthus miraB jucunditatis, Pegasus et Fons 
Musis et Apollini sacer, quin et situs uberrimus . 
Mens etiara Longridge ignis fomitem quotannis 
abundfe suppeditat. et dulcissimos Aquarum fontes 
ubeitim undique diffundlt; pascua et prata longc 
lateque patent gregibus et gramine repleta, arva 
frumenti Teraclssima. Imis in vallibus duo flumlna, 
Ribellua et Hoddcr, in quibus piscium delicatlssi- 
morum ingens copia quotidie capiuntur. De sa- 
lubritate aeris quid dIcam ? Favonius placidus ab 
occidente plaga leni flamine spirans tanta temperie 
plantaa arboresque fovet et salubres reddit, ut 
quamvis multos longaevos illic invenias, hilares 
tamen et laetos invenles, tanquam in Ipso flor© 
juventutis." 

Ex MS. penes Josephum Weld, Arraigerum. 

t See a view of Watten, with a descriptien p. 494, 
Vol. II, FlRndria lUustratft, Cologne, 1641. 



xii. 



6. Robert Stafford, 1638. 

6. Francis Foster, 1641. 

7. Henry Stafford, 1648. 

8. John Clayton, declared Rector, 26 
August, 1651. 

9. William Swinburn, 1662. 

10. Martin Green, 1666. 

11. Richard Ashby, 1668. 

12. Francis Williams, 1672. 

13. Anthony Lucas, declared S October, 
1680. 

14; John Clare (alias Sir John War- 
ner) declared 25 November, 1685. 

15. William Mumford succeeded in 
1690, was re-appointed in 1698 and for ten 
years successively held this office. 

16. Matthew Wright declared Rector 
10 April, 1694. 

17. Robert Beeston in 1708 ; re-ap- 
pointed from 1715 to 1721; 1724 to 1731. 

18. Thomas Eberson served from 1711 
to 1715. 

19. Thomas Lawson declared Rector in 
1721 and held office Four years; he was 
re-appointed 1 January, 1734, and re« 
mained in office six years longer. 

20. Levinus Browne succeeded 27 
March, 1731. 

21. John Bodenham 15 Sep. 1740. 

22. John Tichbourne declared Rector 
21 November, 1741. 

23. Henry Corbie declared Rector 21 
June, 1745. 

24. William Blackiston 14 November, 
1756. 

25. Robert Constable declared Rec- 
tor 26 April, 1761. 

Late in the next year the Novitiate was 
removed to Ghent. 

N.B. At the revival of S, J. the Noviti- 
ate was opened at Hodder Place, about a 
mile distant from Stonyhurst, 26 Septera- 
ber, 1803, with 19 Candidates. The Mas- 
ters of Novices have been as follows : — 

1. F. Charles Plowden declared Sep- 
tember, 1803. 

2. F. N. Sewall, 8 September, 1817. 
N.B. In September, 1821 the Noviceship 

was removed abroad. 

3. F. Thomas Beowneill 19 September, 
1827. 

4. F. George Connell in 1842. 

Q. Can you supply the series of the Rec- 
tors at Ghent? 

A. Not entirely to my satisfaction. In a 
letter which I received in June, 1817. from 
the late Reverend and Venerable Charles 
Plowden, he says " Rectores Domus Gan- 
davensis desunt ad annum 1695." But 
this is incorrect, and 1 believe the greater 
part of the hiatus may be filled up. 1 think 
that the first Rector was 

Michael Alford. See p. 394, More's 
Hist, and Sanders' Flaodrea Illustrata, Vol. 
L p. 131. 

2. William Anderson ) Sanders, ut 

3. John Norton y supra. 

4. William Flock was unquestionably 



Rector 21 June, 1632: p. 461 More's Hist. 

5. Robert Jenison p. 724, Southwell's 
Bibliotheca. 

6. Christopher Warner was Rector in 
1642. 

7. George Duckett was certainly Rec- 
tor in March and April, 1648. 

8. JoHK Stevens was declared Rector 
19 October, 1653. 

9. Henry More. 

10. William Campian died in office 28 
September, 1665. 

11. Richard Ashby or Thimbleby. 

12. Richard Strange. See p. 719, 
Southwell, 

13. William Tunstall, I think was 
Rector from 1672 to 1674. 

14. William March was Rector during 
Gates' Plot. 

15. Hermes Mary Visconti was Rector 
in 1692, 

From 1695 the succession is ascertained 

1. George Webb 1695. 

2. Joseph Layton 1696. 

3. Henry Sheldon 1703. 

4. Matthew Wright 1707. 

5. Robert Beeston 1711. 

6. John Norris 1715. 

7. Edward Slaughter 1716. 

8. Edward Saltmarsh, 1722. 

9. Richard Vaughan 27 August, 1725. 

10. James Gooden declared Rector 16 - 
April, 1728. 

11. Henry Hayes declared 5 April, 
1731. 

12. Percy Plowden 21 January, 1735. 

13. Charles Turville declared SO 
September, 1739- 

14. Stephen Roberts succeeded in 1742. 
N.B. He was re-appointed in 1752, and 

continued in office for one year. 

15. Philip Carteret 1746. 

16. Chari.es Wells 1751. 

17. Thomas Clifton 19 June, 1757. 
IB. William Blackiston 1764. 

19. Henry Corbie succeeded late in 
1764. 

20. Robert Knatchbull was declared 
Rector in August, 1765, and saw the de- 
struction of his house in the fatal year, 1773. 
Jesuit Rectors of the English College at 

Rome. 

1. Alphonsus Agazzari, appointed 19 
March, 1579; for seven years he governed 
the College with great credit. On 17 Alay, 
1593 he was re-appointed, but held the office 
for one year later. This lover of the Eng- 
lish Nation died 30 May, 1602. 

2. William Holt entered upon office 24 
October, 15S6, but held it for one year and 
a half. 

3. Robert Persons succeeded Holt in 
July, 1588, but retired in the following 
year. On 25 May, 1597, he resumed the 
reins of government, and held them until his 
death, 15 April, 1610. 

4. Joseph Cresswell appointed in 
April, 1589. 



5. MuTiusViTELLESCHi, (who was after- 
wards General S. J.) became Rector 16 
April, 1592. 

6. Jerome Fioravanti succeeded 27 
May, 1594. 

7. Thomas Owbn succeeded F. Persons, 
15 April, 1610, and continued in office until 
his death, 6 December, 1618. 

8. Thomas Fitzherbert, succeeded 
Owen, and died in office 17 August, 1640. 

9. Thomas Courtenay succeeded. 

10. Robert Stafford made Rector 22 
September, 1644. 

11. Joseph Simeons followed Stafford 26 
January, 1647. 

12. Thomas Babthorpe declared Rector 
March, 3, ]650. 

13. Edward Courtenay succeeded in 
1653, again from November, 1667, to Oc- 
tober, 1671. 

14. John Manners followed Courtenay 
in December, 1657. 

15. John Stevens succeeded in October, 
1659. 

16. Christopher Anderton in October, 
1663 ; replaced in office from 1673 to 1683, 

17. John Clark was declared Rector in 
1671. 

18. William Morgan 1683. 

19. Charles Campian succeeded in No- 
vember, 1686. 

20. Anthony Lucas followed Campian 
1 October, 1687. 

21 Ralph Postgate 1693. 

22. Robert Mansfield from 1699 to 
1704, and again from 1704 to 1707, 

23. FRA^CIs Powell in November, 1707. 

24. Richard Plowden in March, 1712. 

25. Thomas ICbebson in October, 1716, 

26. liEviNus Browne, declared 12 De- 
cember, 1723 

27 Perseus Plowden about May, 1731. 
28. Joseph Marshall November, 1734. 
29- Henry Sheldon from June, 1738, 
to October, 1744 ; again from 1750 to 1759. 

30. Christopher Maire from 1744 to 
1750. 

31. Nathaniel Elliott from 1756 to 
1762. 

32. Charles Booth from 1762 to 1766. 

33. William Hothersall from 1766 
till the Suppression in 1773. 

See pp. 328-9 Cadi. Magazine, June, 
1832. 

Q. What information can you offer on 
the subject of the Irish Mission ? 

A. Unfortunately but very little. St. Ig- 
natius, it is well known, had this Mission 
greatly at heart: he sent FF. Salmeron 
and liroet, two of his first companions, 
with Francis Zapata, into Ireland, to- 
wards the end of Henry the Eighth's 
Reign : and they spent .34 days in confir- 
ming the people in the faith of their fore- 
fathers (p. 10 More's Hist. p. 169 Tanner's 
Conf. S.J.)* In the Generalship of St. 

* In p. 97 of the LifeofSt. Patrick, printed in 
Dublin 1747 (an octavo of 127 pp.) it is stated " The 



Francis Borgia, this Mission began to be 
regularly supplied with Fathers of acknow- 
ledged merit and abilities. But until the 
year 1620, they were usually attached to 
the persons or houses of the Gentry : after 
that period they obtained Stations of their 
own, which increased to 8 Colleges and 
Residences, some of which counted 8 mem- 
bers in community, and none less than three. 
The Novitiate was at length established at 
Kilkenny, but shortly afrerwards removed 
to Galway. Yet this prosperous state of 
things was blighted, withered and destroyed, 
in the tempestuous visitation of that Thun- 
derbolt, Oliver Cromwell. From the aera of 
this successful Usurper, and Despot, until 
the dissolution of the Order in 1773, 
several Fathers, in defiance of the terrors 
of the infamous Penal Laws, were never 
wanting to cultivate the Irish Vineyard : 
although the majority of the Irish Members, 
were drafted into the other Provinces of 
the Society, and especially in Colleges at 
Salamanca, Rome, Paris, and Poictiers. 

The last Members of the Ancient Society 
had died away, when the Mission was re- 
stored by F. Peter Keoney, in November, 
1811. Under his auspices the College of 
Clongowes Wood, in the County of Kildare, 
was opened in 1814, and some time after a 
Seminary at TuUabeg, in the King'sCounty. 
The Mission, revived in the same manner 
as it existed before the Suppression, became 
erected into a Vice-Province, by the 
present General, in October, 1829. 

Q. Had the Scotch FF. any Colleges in 
their own Country ? 

A. None whatever ; but they possessed a 
small College at Douay,and were adminis- 
trators of houses for their N ation at Madrid, 
Paris, and Rome, After the expulsion 
from Douay by the French Parliament, in 
1762, a College was obtained at Dinant in 
the territory of Liege, into which F.John 
Pepper entered with his little Community, 
in April, 1764. He was succeeded as 
Rector of the house in 1772, by F. George 
Maxwell : and in September, of the next 
year, the College was involved in the gene- 
ral destruction. 

Q. How has the Anglo-American Mis- 
sion been perpetuated and governed since its 
foundation in 1634 ? 

A, It was dependent for its supply of 
Members on the English Province, until the 
Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, 



Jesuits made their first entrance Into Ireland by 
the means of Robei tWaucop, Archbishop of Armagh, 
who assisted at son:e of the Sessions of the Council 
of Trent, and died ?.t Paris in one of the Houses 
belonging to the Society, 10 November, 1557." (In 
the Supplementum Indicis Concilii Tridentini, this 
Abp. is said to have been elected Primate of Armagh 
in 1541 — to have passed by the name of Venanlius 
Scotus and to have died In 1551.) The above Bio- 
grapher of St. Patrick adds " The Jesuits in King 
James the ll's Reign, had a very decent Chapel, in 
Mass or Lucy's Lane, near the Inns Quay (Dublin) 
now made use of by the French Hugonots." 



XIV. 



and was governed by a local Superior. 
Since the declared Indepeadeuce of the Uni- 
ted Stales, the Members of the Society have 
rapidly increased. They have a Novitiate 
at Whitemarsb, and also a College at George 
Town, near Washington. This is the 
oldest Seminary in the United States, being 
founded immediately after the Revolutionary 
War, and was raised by Congress to the rank 
ofan University, 1 May, 1815. The Mis- 
sion of Maryland revived in 1803, was 
erected into a Province by a publication of 



the decree of the present General, F. John 
Rothaan, in July, 1833, and F. William 
Me. Sherry,* a native of Virginia, was in- 
stalled the first Provincial. 

* To this Reverend Father the Legislature o 
Maryland has recently applied for all the informa- 
tion that can be obtained relative to the first settle- 
ment of the Colony in that Country . So great is the 
increase of the Society in the United States, that it 
was stated in the address delivered in their Church 
of St. Joseph, Philadelphia, on Sunday 27 Septem- 
ber, 1840, (the Tricentary Anniversary of the 
Order) that they had then 200 Priests or Brethren, 6 
Colleges, and 1200 Students. 



Collections Illustrating the Biography ^ Sfc. 



SCOTCH MEMBERS, S. J. 

» * * * * quid novisti rectius istis^ 
Candidus imperii : si non, his utere mecutn. 

Horace, Lib. I. Ep. vi. 



Abercuomby, Christopher occurs, 
as Procurator of his brethren at Paris, 
18th June, 1686. From a letter of F. 
James Forbes, rector of the college at 
Douay, dated 26th January, 1691, it is evi- 
dent that F. Christopher was then assisting 
him at Douay, and could ill be spared for 
the Scotch mission. In a subsequent letter, 
however, dated Paris, 24th November, 
1692, he states that F. Christopher was 
then proceeding to the mission. After this 
I lose sight of him. 

Abercrombv, David. — This father, as 
I find by a letter of F. James Forbes, 
dated 10th Sept. 1680, was shortly expected 
in Scotland. "D.Davidem Abercromiuniy 
quern a multo tempore paternitas vestra 
nobis tarn benigne concessit^ hie in Seotia 
brevi expeetamus." 

Abercromby Robert. — We learn from 
F. Tanner's Lives of the Confessors, 
S. J. p. 106, that on the failure of Gaii- 
danus' embassy to Mary, Queen of Scots, 
(to which he had been apj)ointed by Fope 
Pius IV.) his companion, F. Edmund Hay, 
succeeded in bringing away from Scotland, 
James Tyrie, John Hay, William J\lur. 
dock, and Robert Abercromby, qui dalis 
societati nominibus in vivos egregios 
evasere, quibus plurimum Scotia debet. 
After spending 23 years in assisting Catho- 
lics abroad and ia training the novices of the 
Society, and after labouring during 19 years 
in the Scotch Mission, and enduring impris- 
onment for Christ, he died peaceably at 
Braunsberg,27th April, 1613, aetat. 80. (See 
F. John Drew's Fasti, S. J. This posthumous 
work contains 516 pp.) 

Abercromby. Thomas, — He had been 
serving the English mission for several years 
with little danger or suspicion, when he 
ventured into Scotland in June, 1610, but 
owing to the heat of the persecution raging 
there, he deemed it prudent at the end of two 
months to return to his former situation. 
With great difficulty he effected his escape, 
as he informs the General, Claudius Aqua- 
viva,in a letter dated 3rd Oct. 1610. His 
death occured in England, 4th Feb. 1644. 

B 



Abernethy Thomas. — I find by his 
letter dated Douay, 16th Aug. 1633, that 
he had safely arrived there from Rome. He 
was a missionary in Scotland in 1636, and 
attached to the family of the Marquis of 
Huntly. Further particulars I cannot re- 
cover. 

Anderson, James. — All that I can learn 
of him is, that he governed the Scotch 
college at Madrid a very long time. 

Much misconception prevails about the 
Scotch college which formerly existed at 
Madrid. The truth appears to be, that a 
royal palace in that city, not being found 
sufficiently commodious for the residence 
of the sovereign, was appropriated, in the 
first place, to the use of the Scotch Embassy, 
and was so used for very many years ; — 
that on the accession of James 1, to the 
crown of England in 1603, the palace was 
abandoned by the then Scotch ambassador; 
— that King Philip IIL proceeded to allot 
one side of the building to the purposes of a 
Scotch college, under the direction of 
Scotch Jesuits, and ordered that the other 
three sides should be let out to their tenants, 
and that the rents thence arising should go 
to the support of the said college. The 
king of Spain was therefore the Founder. 
Yet some other individuals, especially Col, 
Semplc, were great benefactors. Until 
1732, the house was invariably governed by 
Jesuits, when it was thought advisable for 
the community to be transferred to Douay, 
with the liberty of receiving the rents as 
before. The FF. at Douay continued so to 
receive the rents until their expulsion from 
Douay by the French government, about 32 
years later. It may perhaps be difficult to 
supply the list of the rectors at Madrid; 
but we meet with 

F. Hugh Semple, Senior, 

F.Hugh Semple, Junior, 

F. Frederick Maxwell, 

F. John Seton, Senior, 

F, John Seton, Junior, 

F. James Anderson, 

F. William Grant, 

F. Alexander Clarke, 



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F. James Fife, 

F. (Hugh?)Strachan, 

F. William Mc Gill. 
Anderson, Patrick, was born in the 
county of Elgin, or Moray. His mother 
was sister to Dr. John Lesley, bishop of 
Ross, that model of faithful adherence to 
royalty in distress, in the person of Mary 
Stuart. After attending the grammar school, 
at Elgin, and then the university of Edin- 
burgh, Patrick went abroad, and joined the 
Society of Jesus at Rome in 1597, and in 
due time he acquired the reputation of an 
eminent linguist, mathematician, philosopher 
and divine. Being ordered to the Scotch 
mission, he reached London in November, 
1609, and after a short stay in that capital, 
prosecuted his journey towards his native 
country. Admirable were the fruits of his 
apostolical career, in the conversion of the 
old and the young, of the noble and the 
poor, even of several members of his own 
respectable family, amongst whom may be 
mentioned his brother, whom he reconciled 
to God, and whom he prepared to die in the 
most edifying sentiments of piety. In his 
missionary excursions through the High- 
lands and Lowlands, he had to encounter 
incredible fatigue and privations; every 
place was full of suspicion and danger ; and 
his hair-breadth escapes from the hands of 
his fanatical persecutors, as detailed in his 
narrative, manifest the special interpositions 
of a kind Providence in his favour. Twice 
ha was in immediate peril from the informa- 
tion given to the privy council and its cruel 
president. Lord George Hume, Eari of 
Dunbar, by two false brethren, one of whom 
the Father had actually employed as secre- 
tary; but when his apprehension was deemed 
quite certain, God was pleased to rescue 
him from danger. To these false brethren 
and their families, the good Father rendered 
in the sequel the kindest offices and benefits, 
and he remarks, that nothing is more be- 
coming a member of the Society of Jesus, 
than to repay good for evil, and to return a 
blessing for a curse. Receiving orders 
from his superior, F. James Gordon, 
(Huntly) to meet him in France, he quitted 
Scotland late in 1611. It is a remarkable 
fact that at the time of his departure, there 
was but one priest in all Scotland, and he 
very old and infirm. Two worthy secular 
priests, Andrew Creighton and Roger Lind- 
say, had been apprehended in August, 1610 ; 
znd after suffering imprisonment had been 
sentenced to perpetual banishment. To 
supply this dearth F. Anderson collected 
nearly one hundred promising youths in 
Scotland, eager to serve God and the church, 
as I find in a letter written by F. Gordon, 
and dated the 11th March, 161 1. 

In Scotland the dreadful engine of ex- 
communication had at this period directed 
its full force against the Catholic body. 
When once that abominable sentence was 



pronounced by the kirk against the Catholic 
victim, he could neither inherit property 
nor enter into a legal covenant, nor claim a 
debt, nor form the marriage union* At the 
end of a year's absence from the parish con- 
venticle, the Catholic was liable to be cited 
by the preacher of the word, who alone 
Mas to decide on the sufficiency of his rea- 
sons for such absence. Should the Catholic 
prove contumacious, the frightful sentence 
was fulminated ; his property at once became 
confiscated to the crown ; his person con- 
signed to safe custody ; and such was the 
envenomed hatred of the Scotch Puritans to 
the professors of the ancient faith, that they 
would neither break bread with them after 
such sentence, nor speak to them, but would 
shun them as if infected with pestilence. 
Here in England, our recusants, who pos- 
sessed interest or wealth, might, compara- 
tively speaking, live at their ease. 

After recruiting his strength and filling 
the office of first Jesuit Rector of the Scotch 
college at Rome, (which was founded in 
1600, by Pope Clement VIII, and committed 
to the direction of the Jesuits in 1615,) F. 
Anderson was allowed by his superiors to 
return to Scotland. Finishing his visitation 
of the Highlands, he proceeded to the south, 
when he was betrayed on St. Patrick's day, 
17th March, 1620, into the hands of the 
magistrates of Edinburgh, by a pretended 
Catholic, Alexander Boyd, whose honor 
could not resist the bribe ot £75. sterling. 
During his rigid confinement in the Tolbooth 
the good father, whose constitution was 
greatly impaired, had to stand several ex- 
aminations, during which he gave evident 
proofs of superior learning and invincible 
constancy. He was threatened with the 
barbarous torture of the Boots^ in which 
the legs of the prisoner were so compressed 
that the blood and sometimes the marrow 
started from the compressed part. But 
nothing could intimidate his generous soul, 
which panted for martyrdom. Quis mihi 
triuuat, he says, ut pro dulcissimo Do" 
mino Jesu mortar ? O felix hora^ qua 
comparatur ceterna ilia felicitas ! But 
whilst in daily expectation of death, he was 
restored to liberty, at the intercession of, as 
it is thought, the French ambassador, the 
Marquis Deffiat, who chose him for his 
confessor. He died quietly in London, on 
the 24th of September, 1624, atat. 49. 

We have from his pen The Ground of 
the Catholicke and Roman Religion in 
the Word of God, 4to. 1623. It is divided 
into three parts, the firstcontaining60 pages, 
the second 150 pages, the third 174 pages. 
F. John Mambrecht, S. J. in a letter dated 
London, 31st of December, 1624, states, 
that F. Anderson had prepared for the press 
two other parts of the above-mentioned 
highly esteemed work, as also a little Eng- 
lish Manual for Scotland. Whether they 
were ever printed I cannot ascertain. 



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IThe learned Alban Butler, in a note to 
the life of St. Felan, (9th of January), and 
again in his life o( St, Duthak, (8th of 
March), and of S^. Constantine, (llth of 
March), refers to the MS. Memoirs of the 
Scotch Saints, compiled by a Scotch Jesuit, 
and preserved in the Scotch college at Paris, 
The compiler was no other than F. PatrUk 
Anderson. For in his original letter ad- 
dressed to the General of his Order, Fr. 
Mutius Vitelleschi, and dated 14th of May, 
1620, from his prison in Edinburgh, I read, 
Commendo Paternilati vestrce Alumnos 
Colleyii Scotoruniy quibus consolationi erit 
non mediocri, ut typis mandentur Vitm 
Sanctorum Scotorum, quas ego magno 
sane labore in unum congessV^ 

We cannot conclude this account of F. P. 
Anderson, without briefly adverting to his 
uncle, bishop Lesley, who died 31st of 
May 1596, aetat. 70. This excellent prelate 
was the steady friend of the Society of Jesus, 
and whilst ambassador of Queen Mary, 
at the French court, obtained, against the 
parliament of Paris, that the Scotch College 
should remain under the direction of the 
Jesuits. In the college refectory at Douay, 
fiis portrait was set up as a token of grati- 
tude, with the following eulogium: — 

"Joannes Leslaeus, Rossensis in Scotia, et de- 
signatus Constantiensis, in Gallia, Episcopus, 
Mariaj Reginae in Anglia Captivas, apudEliza- 
betham orator, H^relicorum invidia captus, 
triennio vinctus, bonis exutus, perpetuo ex- 
ilio mulctatus, rellquura vitae variis apud Pon- 
tificem Maximum, Caesarem, et Galliae Regem, 
legationibus, liberandse Reginae, et reslituendae 
in Patiia Catholicae Religionis impendit. scriptis 
et factis clarus, sancte moritur Bruxellis, anao 
1596, sepultus ia Sacello Sanctissimi Sacramenti. 
Mirifico Benefactori suo Sem. Scot. P." 

Becam, Thomas.— This Scotch Jesuit 
•was living in Spain, in August, 1593, and 
probably died there. 

Black, alias Rlssel. Alex, was cer- 
tainly chaplain to Lady Seaforth, in Sep- 
tember, 1712. He was born in 1675, and 
'entered the Novitiate in 1695. 

Bolt, alias M'Intosh, Henry, joined 
the English province, but when, Icannot 
learn. The first time that I meet with 
liim is at Watten, in the Low Coun- 
tries, in 1701. For several years he was 
missioner at Spetchly, in Worcestershire. 
From J 734) to 1737, he filled the office of 
Rector of the English college at Liege ; 
and he was declared Provincial of his bre- 
thren, 20ih July, 1737. His term of office 
being expired, he returned to Liege, 15th 
Sep. 1740, and died there, 9lh Feb. 1743. 

Brown, Richard. — In a letter of 
F. James Mambrecht, (Superior of his 
brethren in Scotland) to the General Vin- 
sent Caraflfa, and dated 29lh October 
1646, Father Brown is recommended as a 
fit successor in the place recently occupied 
by F. Robert Gall, who had been trans- 
ferred from the mission to Douay. He 
says that he would be a most useful work- 



man in these difficult times : that he was 
well known to many in Scotland, and that 
he would be well received by them. 

Fr. Brown remained in Scotland for 
some years ; but about the year 1663 he 
was obliged by the violeoce of the perse- 
cution raging there, to quit it. The time 
and place of his death are not known. He 
had a talent for preaching, and before he 
went to Scotland, had taught philosophy 
in the French provinces. 

Britce, Robert. — He occurs as a bro- 
ther in a letter of F, George Christie, 
dated Edinburgh, 16th March, 1625. 

Bu<3HAN, Alexander, eldest son of the 
family of Auchmacoy, near Aberdeen, was 
born in 1659; joined the Society at Ma- 
drid in 1678 ; made his solemn vows at 
Douay 18 yearslater ; within two years after 
he came to the Scotch mission. Dying in 
Aberdeen or Buchan he was interred in tha 
family burying ground. I find him described 
in a letter, in 1716, as '< Apostolicis labo- 
ribus probatum et spectatee prudentice.'* 

Cameron, Alexander, was born in 
September, 1701. After studying phi- 
losophy for two years at Douay, he joined 
the Socety at Tournay, oOth September, 
1734, and made his simple vows 1st Oct. 
1736. When he had completed the course 
ot four years of Divinity at Douay, he re- 
turned to Scotland as a missionary towards 
the end of June, 1741. The late Mr. 
Charles Butler, p. 509, Vol. II. of his His^ 
torical Memoirs, quoting Dr. Maclaine, 
and stating that the unsuccessful attempts 
of the Stuarts, in 1715 and in 1745, occa- 
sioned an increase of severity towards the 
Catholics, adds, that Frs. Gordon and 
Cameron, of the Society of Jesus, were 
imprisoned. He might have added that 
Fr. Cameron died in captirity at Graves- 
end, 19lh October, 1746. 

Christie, George, was Rector of his 
brethren at Louvain in 1598. This little 
Community was founded by Dr. Cheyney, a 
Canon of Tournay, for his Scotch country- 
men in 1576, but was removed to Pont-a- 
Mousson, by permission of Clement VIII. 
dated 5lh April, 1594, to Douay: and 
after a short stay it proceeded to Louvain, 
where it remained till 1608, when it finally 
resettled at Douay, and continued to flou- 
rish under the direction of Scotch Jesuits, 
until the year 1765. I meet with F.Chris- 
tie at Douay, in the spring of 1622. Six 
years later he was chaplain lo the Countess 
Linlithgow, who was pi'ivately a Catholic. 
Having completed 51 years in the Society, 
the good old man died most piously on the 
I4th of April, 1629, and was attended in 
his last moments by F. Robert Valens, 
one of the nine Jesuits then in Scotland, 
Christie, William, called the Ju- 
nior, came on the Scotch mission in the 
year 1625. F. John Mambrecht, in a 
letter dated 7th April, 1628, siiys of him, 



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that he was a model of apostolic zeal and 
labour; that he had already reconciled to 
the Catholic faith more than 400 persons. 
During this time he had no regular station, 
but subsequently he became attached to 
the Marquis of Huutly's family, and as- 
sisted at that nobleman's raost edifying 
death at Dundee, on 15th June, 1630. 
Quitting Scotland he reached the Continent 
25th of January, 1642, as I find by his 
letter of 6th March followins. He suc- 
ceeded F. Robert Gall, as Rector of the 
senoinary at Douay, 17th March, 1650. 
Further particulars I am unable to collect. 

Clarke, Alesander, born in 1669, 
entered the Order at the Age of 20, "was 
professed at Loretto, 2 Feb. 1706. This 
father was certainly Rector of the Scotch 
Seminary at Madrid ; and I read in a let- 
ter of F. Rd. Plowden, addressed 26th Oct. 
1726, to F. Thos. Eberson, the Rector of 
the Engiish College at Liege, " F. Clarke, 
the Scotch Jesuit, made Confessor to the king 
of Spain in place of F. Berraudez, who has 
his conge. This will promote the affairs of 
the Scotch college at Madrid ; this change is 
attributed to the Queen." 

Clinton, Alexander — His real name 
was Mac Kenzie ; he was born 23rd 
of March, 1730, entered the Novitiate in 
1749, and seven years later was sent to 
the London Mission. Here he had ample 
field for exertion, and was deservedly es- 
teemed and admired for his fatherly atten- 
tion to the poor, and especially to the un- 
fortunate prisoners. In 1767 lie was raised 
to the rank of a professed father. The 
late Thomas Weld, of LuUworth, Esqr., 
charmed with his merits and social qualities, 
engaged him for his chaplain in 1781. 
Retiring from that situation about 14 years 
later, he -went to Ireland, where he died 
5th June, 1800. We have from his pen — 

1. An edition of Dunlevy's Catechism. 

2. The Spiritual Guide. 

3. A. treatise on frequent Communion, 
(dedicated to the venerable bishop Chal- 
loner), 12mo. 1780, London, pp. 406. He 
translated from the French of Pere Grou, 
Moral Instructions extracted from St. 
Augustine's works comprised in 2 Vols. 
l2mo. printed at Dublin, by P. Wogan, 
1792. The first vol. contains 150 pages; 
the second 167. 4. Characters of real devo- 
tion; 12rao. London, 1791. 5. School of 
Christ, 12rao Dublin, 1801. Was he not also 
the compiler of "The poor prisoners' ('om- 
forter." 12mo. London. 1764, pp. 228. 

CoLLisoy, George, entered the Society 
1696, in the Province of Thoulouse. 

CoNNE Alexander. — He has left an 
interesting MS. Report of the Scotch 
Mission in 1663, where twelve Jesuits 
•were then actively employed. He -was in 
Scotland ten years later. Though a great 
valetudinarian, he was employed at Paris, 
in September, 1680, in negociating the 
affairs of his brethren. 



Creitton, William. — This father 
was possessed of considerable zeal and 
talent, but was deficient in judgment. To 
his misplaced confidence, may be principally, 
ascribed the failure of Pope Pius the Fourths 
secret embassy to Mary Queen of Scots, 
See p. 105, of Tanner's Confessors of the 
Society of Jesuits." From the diary kept 
in the Tower of London, by the Rev. 
Edward Rishton, we learn that F, Creit- 
ton, on returning from Scotland (where 
he had converted the Earl of Arran), 
was apprehended and committed to that 
prison on the 16th of September, 1584. 
How long he remained in custody I know 
not; but F. Persons addressed letters to 
him at Seville in 1596. It is clear that 
James VI of Scotland had actually era- 
ployed him in a delicate embassy ; for in a 
letter to F. Thomas Owens, dated 4th June 
1005, he says, " Our Kyng had so great 
fsar of ye nombre of Catholiks, and ye 
puissance of Pope & Spaine, yt he offered 
libertie of Conscience, and sent we to Rome 
to deal for ye Pope's favor & making of a 
Scottish Cardinal ; as I did shaw ye Kyng's 
letters to F. Parsons." Having no guile 
himself, he suspected none in his weak and 
hollow-hearted Sovereign. He was living 
at Paris in 1615, and, in a letter, written 
14th July, that year, he says, "Veruraest 
aetatem me non gravare multura, quamvis 
anni abundant." The date of his death I 
have yet to learn. 

Rev. William Waytes visited Scotland 
(under the direction of F. Persons), and 
whose letter received by the latter 15th 
September, 1582, is to be seen pp. 116-7-8 
of F. INIore's History.* 

Crookshanks, Alexander, occurs rec- 
tor of the Scotch college at Douay, 30th 
January, 1748. 

Curle, HipPOLiTus. — In our notice of F. 
Geo. Christie, we glanced at the original 
foundation of the Scotch seminary at Pont-a- 
Mousson.and its various movements. These 
were occasioned by the failure of funds, by 
tlieunhealthiness of Pont-a-Mousson, by the 
inconvenient distance from the coast, by the 
wars round Lou vain, and by the absence 
of proper accommodations. It is true that 
several generous individuals came to their 
relief, and supplied the means of subsistence- 
Amongst these benefactors we may particu- 
larize Mr. Cuthbert and George Christie, 
canons of St. Quintin's Church, Picardy ; 
Wm. Meldrum, quondam precentor of the 
cathedral charchof Abeideen ; Hon. Robert 
Seton, son of Lord Seton ; Messrs. Lacy 
and Wilson ; Rev. John Weymes, chaplain of 
our Lady at Bruges ; and Rev. John Grier. 
^'defamUia Lagne in Scotia eanonicus 
ecclesioe S. Petri in Anderleb, in Flandria 
prope Bruxellas." But above all, Dr. 

* In 15S2 Scotland had no Printing Tiess, p. 119, 
Mores' Histt 



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Cbeyney, whose portrait in the refectory of 
Douay, thus recorded their gratitude. 

Jacobus Cheynaeius ab Aboya 
Scotus. juris utriusque Doctor, Canonlcus Tor 
nacensis 

Collegium Scotorum hseredem reliquit ex asse 
27 Octobris 1602. 

On the return of the community to 
Douay, the members took up their former 
lodgings in the " Refuge de Marchiennes," 
which the Walloon Jesuits had obtained 
for them. Whilst sheltered here, they ap- 
plied to Philip III, king of Spain, for per- 
mission to purchase a site in the town for 
the erection of a College, which his Ma- 
jesty readily granted, adding a considera- 
ble benefaction for the purpose. Having 
completed the purchase, they removed from 
their old quarters into some small tene- 
ments that stood on their ground ; but 
now arose the difficulty of building a suit- 
able College, when a kind Providence 
visibly came to their relief. Amongst the 
students of the house was a youth of the 
name of Hippolitus Curie, son of Gilbert 
Curie, [Q. When did Gilbert Curie die? 
He was discharged from prison by Queen 
Elizabeth 6th Aug. 1587] formerly secre- 
tary to Queen Maiy, by his wife Barbara 
Mowbray. He was studying poetry when 
the account arrived of the recent martyrdom 
at Glasgow of F. John Ogilvie, who had 
been an alumnus of that college. It was 
publicly read in the refectory amidst the 
fears of the community. A second reading 
of the narrative was called for ; and the 
more it was discussed, the more they were 
overjoyed, that one of their countrymen 
and brethren was so happy as to suffer 
such a glorious martyrdom. The tender 
heart of Hippolitus was sensibly affected ; he 
sighed after the participation of the same 
Jiappiness. This was in the year 1965. 
Three years later he defended Universal 
Philosophy with great applause, and then 
humbly petitioned for admission into the 
Society. He was accepted, and entered a 
novice at Tournay. During the second year 
of his noviceship, his aunt Elizabeth Curie 
died at Antwerp viz, 29th of Mai ch, 1619; 
and by her death he received a considerable 
accession to his fortune ; for he had now 
the command of sixty thousand florins. Be- 
fore he made his simple vows he generously 
devoted ihe bulk of this patrimony to tlie use 
of the establishment. At the death of F, John 
Robe, 13th IMarch, 1633, F, Curie, who may 
justly be called the second founder of the 
college (iot with his money it was erected) 
was appointed its rector. For his perpetual 
remembrance, his picture was set up after 
his death in the college refectory ; near him 
Avas the correct view of his college, with the 
following inscription beneath: — 

" R, ? Hypolitus Curie, Presbyter Societatis Jesu 
ex Patrc Scoto Keginre Mariac Stuarta; a secretis. 
alterqiic ab ea CoUegil Scotorum Parens obiit 21 
Octobris, anno 1638, ectatia sure 47, Rcligionis 20, ' 

c 



After this statement of facts will not Dodd's 
account, p, 42, Vol. 2, Church History, be 
admitted to be grossly defective and in- 
accurate ? 

Dempster, Thomas, vi^as Rector of 
the Scotch College at Rome, 1 believe, from 
1647 to 1650, He is not to be confounded 
with Thomas Dempster, tlie author of the 
rare 4to, " Apparatus ad Hisloriam Scot^ 
team, " Bononics, 1662, and the " Scotorum 
Scriptorum]Nomenelatura/' printed at the 
same place and in the same year, and who 
died a Layman at Bologna in 1625. Of the 
Jesuit I lose sight after 1650, 

Douglas, Francis. — He was educated 
from childhood in France, and evinced ta- 
lents for the pulpit. He reached Edinburgh 
as a missionary on the 28tb May, 16S6 ; but 
became so alarmingly unwell, that his me- 
dical friends urged his departure before that 
winter to a warmer climate. He actually 
embarked to go abroad, but was driven back 
by contrary winds, as I find by F. William 
Aloysius Lesley's letter, dated Edinburgh, 
7 December, 1686, Probably he died 
shortly after his return to Douay, 

Douglas, Archangel, born of Scotch 
parents at Verdun, 27 April, 1677; joined 
the Society at Tournay, 24 February, 1692, 
and the same year passed over to the 
Austrian Province, 

Drummond, Chaules, born 6 July, 
1686; entered the Novitiate at Paris 11 
September, 1699 : ten years later was a 
Student of Divinity. 

Drummond, William, (alias Melfort) 
born 24 September, 1686 ; at the age of 18 
consecrated himself to God in religion. 

DuGuiD, Alexander, born 5th March 
171 1 : studied Humanities and Philosphy in 
the National College at Douay : entered the 
Novitiate of the Society at Tournay, 28 
September, 1730, After passing through va- 
rious offices he arrived in Scotland, 26 
December, 1739, to serve the mission ; was 
admitted to the profession of the solemn 
vows of his order, 3 May, 1747, ai Aber- 
deen, He is said to have died at Elgin, 21 
September, 1789. 

DuGuiD, Charles, born 8th January, 
1748, O, S, Studied Humanities in the 
Scotch College, Douay; inroUed himself 
at Tournay amongst the children of St. 
Ignatius, 28 September, 1764 and pro- 
nounced bis simple vows on Michaelmas tJay, 
1766. After teaching Humanities for one 
year at Mons, he was ordered to Ponl-a- 
Mousson ; but forced to emigrat3 tvith his 
brethren, he finished his Philosophical and 
Theological course in the English Collegof 
at Liege. But I suspect this is F. Charles 
Leslie. 

Dl'guid, Joseph, brother of Alex- 
ander, born 6th January, 1713. After 
studying for a short period with his brother 
at Douay, he proceeded to Spain, and 
thence to Rome, wheie he embraced the 



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Institute of St. Ignatiu3, 20 January, 
1713. When he had completed his No« 
viceship in that city, he applied himself 
to Philosophy; but the climate disagreeing 
with his constitution, he returned to 
Douay, where he finished the remainder 
of his studies ; proceeding to Scotland, he 
reached Edinburgh 20 June, 1742. He 
was raised to the rank of a Professed 
Father, 24 xMarch, 1747; and died in 
Edinburgh, 28 February, 1775. 

DuGUiD, George, also brother of 
Alexander. He died about the year 1760 ; 
but I can recover no details. 

Durham, Stephen. This Father was 
at Edinburgh in August, 1704 ; I meet 
wilh him at Edinburgh, 9 Sept., 1712. 

Durham, William, was born in 1651, 
entered the Society at Paris 21 December, 
1673, made his solemn profession Feb- 
ruary 4, 1689, in Scotland, while serving 
the Mission. In 1709, was apprehended 
and banished the realm. I have seen his 
letter dated from Paris, 1 October, 1706, 
to the Assistant of Germany, imploring, 
as Procurator of the Scotch Mission, 
and as Consultor, that an Italian 
Jesuit might not he appointed for a 
third time to the Presidency of the Scotch 
College at Rome — that such appointment 
would give displeasure to the English 
(Stuart) Court, who would prefer a Scotch 
Father. 

DuRiE, John, of Fifeshire. This 
Father is highly commended by F. Posse- 
vinus for his learning and eloquence. F. 
Southwell, (p. 440, Bibliotheca Scripto- 
rum, S. J. ) says, that F. Durie, was living 
at Clermont College, Paris, in 1582. 
"Jam turn Presbyter et Theologus," 
and that he died in Scotland 20 Oct. 1669. 
(Query 1598 or 16081) His elegant and 
victorious confutation in Latin of Whita- 
ker's Reply to Campian's Decern Rationes, 
was printed at Paris, Svo. 1582, pp. 466. 
and at Ingolstadt, Svo. A. D. 1585, pp. 
856, bearing for title " Confutatio Respon- 
sionis G. Whitakeri ad x Rationes, qui- 
bus fretus Edm. Campianus Certamen An- 
glicauEB Ecclesiae Ministris obtulit in causa 
Fidei." 

Eglin, ' All that I can learn 

of this Father is, that he reached the 
Scotch Mission early in 1627; but owing 
to weak health, he was forced to return 
to Douay within a twelvemonth. 

Elphinston, William. What I 
can learn of this saintly novice is from 
Drew's Fasti, S. J. who affirms that 
he died at Naples, 16 April, 1548, a 
most devout client of the blessed Virgin 
Mary. 

Elphinston. This Father is men- 
tioned as being aggregated to the French 
Province in Fi James Gordon's letter of 
the 11 March, 1612 to the General Clau- 
dius Aquaviva, and it was then proposed 



to send him to Scotland ; but it seems that 
he was sent to Spain. After January 24, 
1631, I lose all traces of him, 

Fairful, David Andrew, born in 1648: 
at the age of 30 enrolled himself amocgstthe 
Novices : for a considerable period served 
the Scotch mission, where he was twice 
apprehended, and long imprisoned. On the 
2nd of February, 1697, was promoted to the 
rank of a Professed Father. He was famed 
as a Preacher; made many converts in Scot- 
land and elsewhere, especially at Douay. 

Fairfull, David, was certainly rector 
of the Scotch College at Douay, in the 
summer of 1709. Eight years later I meet 
with him at Paris. 

Farquharson, Charles, died in 1797. 
Farquharson, John, born 19 Aprils 
1699; entered the Society at Tournay, 
and became an excellent scholar. To- 
wards the end of October, 1729, he landed at 
Edinburghtoservethe mission. On2Feb- 
ruary, 1736, he made the solemn profession 
of the four vows. He was still living in 
1775. In p. 285 of the London and Dublin 
Orthodox Journal, April, 1836, a correspon- 
dent A. H. asserts that F. J. Charles and 
John Farquharson were natives of Braeman, 
and belonged to the very ancient and r€spec- 
table house in Inveray, which suffered so 
much for its attachment to the Stuart family. 
Placed in the mission of Stratiiglass, In- 
vernesshlre, F. John F. found the necessity 
of acquiring a competent knowledge of the 
Gaelic language. In Mrs, Fraser of Kil- 
bokie (Q. Catherine Mackenzie?) then con- 
sidered the besc Erse-scholar in the district, 
he experienced an invaluable guide. By 
degrees he formed an immense collection of 
Gaelic Poetry. The original Folio M S. in 
his own hand-writing he deposited, in 1772, 
in the Scotch College, at Douay ; but those 
who ought to have kept this precious trea- 
sure in cedar wood, suffered it to be thrown 
aside and to perish, and to be applied to 
every ignoble purpose. The7pAo/e of Os- 
sian's Poems, translated by Macphersotiy 
were in F. Farquharson's collection, and 
many others either not known to Macpher- 
son, or at least not published by him. F. 
Farquharson frequently quoted the original 
passages of Ossian, with remarks on the in- 
feriority of Macpherson's translation. F. 
John F. was taken prisoner about the year 
1745, whilst saying Mass, and conveyed to 
Edinburgh in his sacerdotal vestments. Af- 
ter many sufferings, he was restored to li- 
berty, and lived several years afterwards 
abroad ; when he finally returned to Scot- 
land, and resided with his nephew, Mr. F. 
of Inveray. There he died suddenly, and 
was buried at Braeman. His Rev. Brother 
Charles, who died 1797, was interred in the 
same grave. 

Ferguson, Alexander, born 10 Jan- 
uary, 1672 ; embraced the Institute of St. 
Ignatius, 29 November, 1697. 



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Fife, James, was born 22 Jaly, 1656 ; 
when J7 years of age, consecrated himself 
to God in the Society, and 18 years later 
was made a professed father. Whilst 
serving the Scotch Mission was arrested 
and sent to exile. He lived for some time at 
Naples ; was appointed by the Gen. M. 
A.Tamberini, Rector of the Scotch College 
at Rome, in 1709. In a letter of the F. 
Thomas Eberson, Esq , Hector of the Eng- 
lish College at Rome, and dated thence 96 
February, 1724, I read, "I leave nezt 
Thursday, 2 March. F. Fife who came 
up hither two years ago to the Scotch Col- 
lege, goes along with me as far as Modena, 
I do not know who will be here at Rome 
in F.Fife's place." 

Fife, Thomas, born abo'at 1671 ; ad- 
mitted into the Society at Naples, 29 Jan- 
uary, 1694, and was still attached to the 
Neapolitan province fifteen years later. 

Forbes, James, occurs superior of the 
Scotch mission in May, 1679. In 16S6 he 
and F. Thomas Patterson were appointed 
Chaplains to King James II. in Holyrood 
House. This Chapel was opened on St. 
Andrew's Day, 16S6, At the revolution he 
was sent to the Continent. His superior, 
F. William Aloysius Lesley, felt much at 
parting with him, as being " rerum nos- 
irarmn expertissimus" and recommends 
to the General to reinstate him in the go- 
vernment of his brethren in the mission. 
But he was appointed Hector of the College 
at Douay, where I find him still in the au- 
tumn of 1694, when business calling him to 
Scotland, he was taken in company of F. 
Marvell and Mr. Charles Gordon, both 
members of the Society, and conveyed to 
England, where they were committed to pri- 
son for some weeks, and then released on 
bail. He was still living in the Scotch 
College at Ron-.e, 1709. This venerable 
man was 83 years of age, and had spent 64 
in the order.* 

FoRDE, HoBERT. — This father ,who was re- 
puted a man of business, succeeded Fr.Wra. 
Aloysius Lesley, as superior of his brethren in 
Scotlandata most difficult crisis. In a letter, 
dated Douay, 12 July, 1695, he mentions 
the system of espionage that prevailed in the 
post-olfice in Scotland, as well as his own 
captivity and discharge ; he states that three 
of his brethren (unnamed) had recently died 
in Scotland; one soon after his release from 
gaol, two others in consequence of being ex- 
posed to the inclemency of the air, or the 
close confinement in their hiding holes ; and 
eight had been taken from prison to be sent 
to banishment. F. Robert Forde was still 
living at Douay, in December, 1709. 

FoRDYCE, Robert, born in 1645, entered 
tlie Society at Tournay, in 1668, for many 

* This Father Francis Marvel, or Moreil, men- 
tioned in this page, as appreiiended with F. Forbes, 
was born at Paris in IG64 ; at the age of 32 went to 
the Sbotch Mission — was committed to prison and 
banished ; but returned. 



years cultivated the viney^ird, and was re- 
peatedly imprisoned, and at last banished 
In 1700 was Reotorof the Scotch College at 
Douay. He was recommended for 
Superior of his brethren in Scotland by F. 
Forbes in 1691, and is described as peri- 
tus rerum. " I lose sight of him after the 
autumn of 1712. 

Forsyth, HENDRic.a man of great merit. 
He died 1 November, 1690. In a letter 
Avritten after his death, he is described as 

Vir plane ApostolicHs,et cujus memoria 
in benedictione erit apud Paiiperes illos, 
qui montana in Scotia incolant. 

Fraser, JoHN;-died at Parten m Scotland, 
12 March, 1797. At the suppression of the 
Society in 1773, there were but seven Jesuit 
missionaries in Scotland, but for a long time 
previous to that event members of the order 
had served Kirconnel, Terregles, and Mun- 
shes, in the South; and Bracmar, Glengairn, 
Glentanar, Buchan, and Strathglass, in the 
North. The Superior and his Socius resid- 
ed at Edinburgh, and another Father at 
Aberdeen. 

Gall. Robert, of Maw, probably, 
county Fife. In Thurloe's State Papers, 
Vol. I. pp. 538-9, is published an intercepted 
letter of this Father to his General, Goswin 
Nickel, dated from Scotland, 23 October, 
1653. Re?ore his appointment to the office 
of Superior of his brethren in Scotland, he 
had filled the situation of Rector of the na- 
tional College at Douay* In a letter aated 
29 December, 1647, he shows his charita- 
ble disposition and generous hospitality to 
his Catholic countrymen, who had been 
obliged to leave Scotland for their loyalty 
and their devoted attachment to their reli- 
gion; and he mentions an exlraordinay fact, 
that the Jesuit missionaries were then the 
only priests actually in the country. He 
repeats this assertion in his letter ot the 26 
March, 1648 ; and he adds that these Fa- 
thers, " nunc, si unquam alias, verissimi 
sunt pauperrimi Jesu Socii, vix enim ha- 
bent nbi caput reclinent." Father Gall, 
was a man of great merit, a solid religious, 
an excellent scholar, and a discreet and vigi- 
lant Superior. 

Gerner, James. — All that I can learn of 
him is from a letter written by him from 
Edinburgh, 28 May, 1662, in which he ear- 
nestly recommends that a spiritual Father of 
their own nation may be assigned to the col- 
lege where the Scotch youths are sent over 
for their studies. He states it as his opinion, 
that Father George Mortimer, who is still 
detained a prisoner at Glasgow, but whose 
deliverance has already been signed by the 
Government at the instance of the Spanish 
ambassador at London, would be fitted for 
that office, if not allowed to follow his func- 
tions in Scotland. He mentions Cameron 
and Patrick, whose arrival he was expect- 
ing ; as also that ho had sent Alexander 
Ogilvip, insignem subjectum, who last year 



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had returued from Douay to Scotlaud, to 
begin his noviceship at Nauci. 

GounoN, i^LEXANDER, was boin 12 
April, 1702 : repaired to the Scotch Col- 
lege at Douay, in 1718; continued his 
studies there until September, 1723, when 
he joined the Society at Tcurnay. In due 
time he was ordered to Scotland, -where he 
arrived 30 June, 1734. Oo the 2 Feb- 
ruary, 1739, he was admitted to the pro- 
fession of the four vows at Aberdeen. Ap- 
prehended as a Priest, he died a prisoner at 
Inverness, about the middle of May, 1746. 

GoaDOK Alexander, born 25 July, 
1657; at the age of 20 became a member 
of the Order in the Venetian Province. 

Gordon, Alexander, of Scotch ex- 
traction, but born in Poland In 16S1; 
joined the Society in 1696, in the Pro%'ince 
of Liti-.uania. 

Gordon-, Alexander Joseph, born 19 
March, 1707 : at the age of 20 entered the 
novitiate at Bourdeaux. He came to the 
Scotch mission 5 November, 1744, and 
the same year made his solemn religious 
vows at Munshes, in Gallovi-ay. 

Gordon, Charles. — He was taken pri- 
soner witb Father IMarvel by an English 
ship, and committed to prison in 1694; but 
enlarged on bail shortly after. 

Gordon, James. Of this name I find 

four Fathers. Tlie.first ^\as the fifth son of 
George, fourth Earl of Huntly, and was born 
in 1541. Leaving Scotland, he enrolled 
himself at Rome ajpong the children of St. 
Ignatius, on 20 September, 1563. After 
filling the highest offices in various colleges 
of the Society throughout France, be was 
appointed Nuncius Apostolicus," for 
Ireland, and Prefect of the Scotch mission, 
His glowing zeal obtained for him the honor 
and happiness cf being the " Vinctus Chri- 
sti," both in his native country and in Eng- 
land, but the only grief of this humble, reli- 
gious, and truly apostolical Priest, was to 
be denied the glory of shedding his blood, 
and sacrificing his life in the cause of his 
crucified Maker. I his noble and good 
father died at Paris, on Good Friday 16 
April, 1620, aged 77, and in the 50 year 
of his religious profession; and his inter- 
ment was conducted with unusual pomp and 
solemnity. The character of this illustrious 
Jesuit, as drawn by his relative Sir Robert 
Gordon, (p. 363, Genealogy of the Earls of 
Sutherland, folio, Edinburgh, 1S13), will 
interest and amuse ihe reader: — 

"In the raoupth of April 1620 yeirs, upon 
Good Fryday, Mr. Jamfs Gordoun, (a 
Jesuite and the Marquis of Huntlie, his 
uncle) died at Paris in tha street of Sanct 
Anthonie in the Jesuits' College, where he 
lyes bureid — a verie learned and godiie man, 
who from his infancie had forsaken the 
pleasures of this world, and did altogether 
give himselff to the service of God. He was 
»nuch respected and reverenced by that So- 



cietie for his holieness cf lyff and conversa- 
tion. The onlie Phenix of this Sect, much 
abhorring their damnable positions of mur- 
dering and dethroning of Kings"! ! ! 

In page 4, of the life of his nephew, (Svo. 
Douay, 162S, Juo. Forbes, alias Father 
Archangel, who died a Capuchin Friar at 
Tenerarmunde, 2d August, 1606, set. 36, I 
read what follows: — 

** That noble personage and verie Rev, F. 
James Gordon, Huntley, unkle of F. Arch- 
angel, a true and elect Priest of God, verie 
lately deceased, after much miserie which he 
endured in Scotland for the consolation of 
the faithfull, refused peremptorilye theMar- 
quiship descending to him by the death of 
his elder brethren, though ofi"ered to him by 
the politique statesmen, choosing rather to 
be an abject in the house of God, and in the 
most holie Societie of Jesus, in which he 
lived and died, and ander the yoak of obe- 
dience to pass a long and voluntarie martyr- 
dom in banishment, than to have that con- 
tentment and estate of temporall greatness 
and felicity." 

F. Gordon was the author of " Contro- 
rersiarnm Christiance Fidei adversus 
hujus temporis Hceretieos Epitome." The 
first volume appeared at Poictiers in 1612; 
the second at Paris in 4to. ; but John Kin- 
chius reprinted these with a third part in 
Svo. at Cologne, in 1620. 

Q. Is this the F. Gordon mentioned in 
I>r. Lingard's 4to. Edition of the History of 
England, (p. 559, Vol. V. note 87), as 
having formed the project of getting Ara- 
bella Stuart out of England ? 

Some of his letters written in a clear and 
bold hand at the age of 72, from Paris, are 
still extant, and mark him as the man of 
business, and most zealous for the interests 
of religion and the good of his country. 

Gordon, James, of the house of 
Lesmoir. county Aberdeen, was admitted 
into the Society at Paris in 1573. After 
teaching Theology with distinguislied lepu- 
tation, he was appointed rector of Tholouse 
and then of Bordeaux College, and in his 
old age was summoned to court to be Con- 
fessor to Louis XI II. He died at Paris, 
17 November. 1641, aet. SB, Soc, 68, Prof. 
52. This learned Jesuit sent to the Press — 

1. " Opus Chronologicum^ Annorum 
seriem, Regnorum mutationes, et Rerum 
toto orbe gestarum memorauilium Seriem 
Annumqne a Mundi exordio ad nostra 
usque tempora complectens." It appeared 
at Poictiers in 1613 and at Cologne the year 
after, in two folio volumes, the first of which 
contains 180 pages, the second 518 pages. 

2. A Treatise "De Catholica veritate," 
12mo. Bourdeaux, J 623. 

3. Biblia sacra cum Commentariis,'* 3 
vols, folio, Paris. 1632 — F. N. Southwell, 
p. 366, Biblioth SS. mentions a Volume, 
"De Rebus Britannice Novis, et in Niip- 
Has CaroU Regis Britannice,"' 



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4i.^*0puscula tria, Chronologicum, His- 
tericum, Geographieum." Cologne. 1636. 

GoRDOK. James, after long serving- the 
Scotch mission, cum laude, was minister in 
the College of Arras, and was one of the 
three Scotch Fathers proposed to the Gene- 
ral Thyrsus Gonzales in January, 1691, to 
be appointed Superior of his brethren in 
Scotland. 

Gordon, James, born 16 September, 
1702: became a Novice at Rome, 27 Oc- 
tober, 1719, and at the end of this probation, 
repeated his simple vows, 28 October, 
1721 ; in the sequel, he acquired the reputa- 
tion of being an excellent scholar. 

Gordon, John, was born 1638, entered 
the Society at Tournay, 1660, taught hu- 
manities for 5 years, and philosophy for 9 
years at Douay ; made the solemn profes- 
sion of the four vows in 1676, was Rector of 
the Scotch College at Madrid; and in 
1709 had been missionary in Scotland 
Thirty years. I find him recommended 
for the office of Superior of his brethren 
in Scotland, by F. Fairfull, in a letter writ- 
ten 20 August, 1708. 

Gordon, Patrick, (who often passed by 
the name of John Johnstone), was born 

24 June, 1703 ; embraced tlie Society at 
Tournay, 27 September, 1727. With F. 
Riddock he returned to Scotland, March 8, 
1736; and on February, 2, 1745, made 
tlve four solemn vows, at Achoil. He was 
Superior of his brethren at the dissolution 
of the Society in 1773. 

Grant, John, was born 15 August, 
1674, entered the novitiate at Rome 20 
November, 1696. 1 find by a letter of F. 
David Fairfull, dated Pans, 21 March, 
1716, that at the request of that heroine and 
pride of her sex, the Lady Winifred (Her- 
bert) Countess of Nithsdale, F. John Grant 
was appointed Tutor to her only son John, 
Lord Maxwell. Lady Winifred Herbert 
was daughter of William, Marquis of Powis, 
and through her contrivance, her husband, 
William, fifth Earl of Niihsdale, escaped on 
23 of February, 1716, from the Tower, 
the evening before the day fixed for his 
(xecution. He dieJ at Rome, 29 March, 
1744; her Ladyship survived him 5 years. 
Their son and heir died at London, 4 Au- 
gust, 1776. 

Grant, James, was born in Scotland, 

25 November, 1721, was admitted into 
the Oruer 21 September, 1743, and became 
a professed Father, 2 February, 1759. He 
died in London, 5 JMay. 1769. 

Grant, William. I meet with two Fa- 
thers of this name. The Former was living 
in the N.of Scotland in 1641 and 1646, and 
narrowly escaped apprehension in May 1647. 
The year after this he was admitted to the 
profession of the four vows. In the sequel 
he became Rector of the Scotch College 
at Madrid. " 

Grant, William.— The Second Father 
of this name was still living in Scotland in 
D 



November, 1793. He died at Deeside 1 
March, 1797. 

Green. • 'This Father was 

at Olmutz in 1612, and was recommended by 
F. J. Gordon to his Superior of the Scotch 
mission. 

Hay, Edmund, of the family of the Earls of 
Errol. He went through his Noviceship at 
Rome. The discretion, presence of mind, 
and stoutness of heart, which he displayed 
in serving the cause of his unfortunate so^ 
vereign, Mary Queen of Scots, merited for 
him the honourable commendation of the 
sainted Pontiff, Pius V. During his visit 
to Scotland, he had the comfort of recon- 
ciling to the Church, Francis Earl of Errol. 
Such was theopinion entertained of his talent 
for government, that he was appointed rector 
of the College of Clermont, the first supe- 
rior in the new College at Pont-a-Mousson, 
in Lorraine, and was assistant both for Ger- 
many and France to Claudius Aquaviva the 
fifth General of the Society. F. Hay finished 
his mortal course at Rome, on 4 November, 
1 591 . " Vir valde religiosus, prudetis alque 
eruditus." He was iha author of" The 
Contradictions of Calvin."' 

Hay, John, of the Hay family of Dalgaty, 
entered the Society at Rome in 1566. He 
was a man of commanding abilities, ofpri« 
mitive fervour, apostolic zeal, and infantine 
docility. His merits as a Theologian were 
universally acknowledged. He died beloved 
and regretted at the college of Pont-a Mous- 
son 21 May, 1607, *' sexagenario major.'* 
We have from his pen Certain Demandes 
concerning the Christian Religion and Dis- 
cipline, proposed to the Ministers of the 
new Pretended Kirk ofScotlande^ by Johne 
Hay^ane Clerke of the Societie of Jesus. 
8vo. Paris, 1580. pp. 104, This has been re- 
printed. Hepublished in Frenchan apology 
for the said work. Also " A Dispute with 
an anonymous Minister."' Lyons. 4to. 1584 
" A Reply to Beza." Bvo. Tours, 1588. 
"Short Notes on the Holy Bible." Lyons, 
He translated into Latin the letters of his 
Missionary Brethren in .Tapan & Peru. 8vo. 
Antwerp. 1605. pp. 968. His MS. entitled, 
Helleborum Joanni Serrano (Serres) the 
Calvinist, was in the Jesuits' Archivium at 
Rome in 1676. 

Hudson, James, born 17 June, 1C65 ; en- 
tered the Society at Bolog^ia, 27 Sept. 1689. 
After completing all higher studies in 
Italy, and teaching Humanities there, he 
returned to his native country on 4 June, 
1704. This Professed Father resided with 
the Karl of Nithsdale, and is described in a 
letter of 9 September, 1712, as ,, Vir 
prudcns et religiosus quisunmmunus oni- 
ni cum diiigmtia obit, Multis utilis, omni- 
bus charus ?" Whilst Superior of his 
brethren, he was ap()rehended in 1715, as 
Chaplain to the nobleman above-mentioned, 
and committed to close custody. On his dis- 
charge he retired to Douay, where he died 
full of days and merits on 14 May, 1749. 



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Hume, John, — I have seen a letter on 
business written with this signature from 
London, 3 June, 1630, but it may be a 
name assumed by F. William Christie. 

HuNNY, Alexander. — According to 
Drews' Fasti, this Father died at Cambray, 
28 March, 1606. He was a man of tenacious 
and prodigious memory, and a profound 
Greek and Latin Scholar. He had endeared 
himself to the soldiers, to whose service and 
spiritual comfort he devoted his time and 
attention It is said that he reconciled 
2,000 souls to the Catholic Church. 

Inglis, Gilbert. — I have seen a letter of 
his, whilst Rector at Douay, written in a 
fine bold hand, 28 July, 1685. 

Innes, James. — After being Procurator 
at Douay, he was appointed to the Scotch 
mission in 1686,'where he was twice seized, 
imprisoned, and finally banished. He was 
still living in 1709. 

Innes, John. — I meet with two Fathers of 
this name. The first born 26 October, 1667 : 
entered the Society at Avignon, 2 November, 
1687 ; studied philosophy at Lyons, and 
Theology at Dole. In June, 1700, he re- 
turned as a missionary to Scotland. His 
station was in the Highlands, as I find in a 
letter of 1712, where, with his neighbours, 
F F. Meaia, Seaton, and Strahan, they lived 
very hard : straw or heath served them for 
bedding ; their drink milk and water ; wine 
or beer seldom passed their lips : their bread 
was made of barley ; but they were indem- 
nified by the suacess of their labours among 
the poor. 

The other John Innes was born 31 July, 
1668 : entered the Novitiate at Watten, 31 
October 1688,hut made his simple vows at 
Vienna, 1 November, 1690, studied Phi- 
losophy at Gratz, and Theology at Vienna. 
For eleven years he was employed as a 
missionary in Muscovy. This talented and 
worthy religionisreturnd toScotland in 1718, 
and died in Galloway, 6 May, 1757. 

Innes, Robert, was born I June, 1693, 
and became a member of the Society at 
Tournay, 29 September, 1713. After 
completing his studies, and teaching Hu- 
manities in several places, he arrived as a 
missionary at Aberdeen, 21 June, 1729 ; 
during the troublesome times be was apper- 
hended, and finally banished 15 May, 1751. 

Johnston, John. — See Gordon Patrick. 

Johnston, William, enrolled himself 
in the Order at Lyons in 1578 ; and subse- 
quently taught Philosophv and Scripture 
at Gratz with great commendation. He 
died there in high repute for piety and 
learning, 19 December, 1609, set. 47. He 
is said to have published a corrected 
Abridgment of Sleidan's History, and 
to have prepared for the press a " Com- 
mentary on Isaiah." 

Kellie, ■ I have met with the 

name of this Scotch Father in 1686 ; but 
ean discover no details. 

Kinghorn, GeorgEi — I find in a letter 



of F. George Christie, bearing date Edin- 
burg, 16 March, 1625, that brother George 
Kinghorn, a Temporal Coadjutor, had 
arrived safely from Madrid, with a message 
from Colonel Semple, who meditated great 
benefactions to his conntrymen and the 
Society. 

Lambert, — — Of this Father, 

who was living towards the middle of the 
18th century, I regret to be unable to give 
any account. 

Leith, Alexander, had laboured in 
the Scotch mission with exemplary zeal 
for several years, when he became a 
Postulant for admission into the Society of 
Jesus. His wish was acceded to, and he 
was ordered to Bourdeaux to make his 
Noviceship. Returning to the Scotch 
mission, like a giant refreshed, he cultivated 
that vineyard with all the fervour of an 
Apostle, and was a model of a good pastor, 
by his unaffected humility, meekness, love 
of poverty and self-denial, and tender 
regard for the interests of the poor. With 
such a spirit, he could not fail of producing 
an abundant harvest of souls. He died 
most piously in April, 1675. 

Lesley, Alexander, born in Aber- 
deenshire, 7 November, 1693. His father 
was Baron of Pitcaple ; and his elder 
brother James died a General Officer ia 
the French service. 

Alexander was admitted into the Novi- 
tiate of the society 12 November, 1713, 
and to the profession of the four vows, 
2 Febfuary, 1729. After teaching Hu- 
manities for four years, and Philosophy 
for the same period, he was sent to the 
Scotch mission. Whilst a young mission- 
ary there the following adventure occurred 
to him, which I give from a letter of his 
friend F. John Thorpe. " He had tra- 
velled with a Puritan Presbyter, who was 
going to the General Meeting, and at 
Evening was invited to the same house 
where the Meeting was to be held, and 
was introduced to the company, which 
stood in profound silence until the land- 
lady brought a bottle of brandy, when 
they all put themselves in order, and 
stood in almost a circle, with their hata 
slouched over their foreheads, and their 
eyes fixed on the ground. Lesley had his 
place in the circle, when one of the 
company began with a solemn tone, 
'Brother, beg a blessing.' The next 
repeated the same expression, until it 
came to Lesley's turn, who scarcly able 
to restrain a burst of laughter, faithfully 
repeated his lesson, and with an aflected 
gravity, cried ' Brother, beg a blessitig.^ 
The words were carried on to the last of 
the elders, who raising his hands and 
eyes, bade the glass be filled and given 
about. Lesley, in his turn, took his dram, 
and thinking he had kept up the jest as 
long as he could, found an excuse to 
retire. In his old days he told me thi? 



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story with much humour, and for the sake 
of that most amiable and very learned man, 
you must excuse ray inserting this com- 
pendium of it." 

Father Leslie, as I find by an authentic 
document, was stationed at Rome in 1747, 
In that city he finished his mortal course, 
as I discover in part of a letter written 
by his friend F. Thorpe; but uufortunately 
the date is not given; perhaps it occurred 
in 1760. '*On Monday, in Easter week, 
I lost the person with whom I had the 
greatest familiarity, Fr. Lesley. He had 
been invited to dine with Mr. Fermour. 
According to custom he had taken no break- 
fast, and had been in the Confessional six 
or seven hours. At mid-day he came 
out ; but meeting a crowd of clowns 
coming from the country vineyards, he 
desired the coach to await, till he had as- 
sisted at the confessions of that company. 
At dinner he ate and conversed with 
much freedom, as usuai ; for I do not 
remember to have seen him hipped at any 
time. Towards the end of the table, when 
every one was giving his opinion of a 
particular wine, he seemed to be less at- 
tentive, but was not behind with his sen- 
tiraents ; for he looked up and said the 
wine was Tuscanello, and immediately 
bowed his head. Mr. Booth who sat 
next him, took the old man in his arms, 
and with help carried him into the next 
room ; but he was no longer alive. You 
may guess what confusion there was in 
the company, which was fuller than usual 
at Mr. Fermour'.«! table. You will pardon 
me for mentioning all these particulars. 
He was mt/ friend. I do not Remember 
that the loss of any acquaintance made 
so deep an impression upon me. The 
concern was universal amongst all those 
that were acquainted with him. Besides, 
bis life, as a religious man, he was pos- 
sessed of a vast fund of solid learning. 
His conversation upon many subjects was 
more instructing than any book that has 
fallen into my hands : though old, his 
discourse was always entertaining, and he 
was never tired. A little while before his 
death, 1 was about entering into a nearer 
connexion with hira and his studies ; for 
he was willing to communicate to me any 
of his observations upon men, books, or 
things. The loss of this opportunity 
doubles my regret. As you have heard 
from me at different times of his writings, 
&c. perhaps you may be curious to know 
what has become of all. His edition of 
the Mozarabick* Missal is much es- 
teemed. The designed Confessor of Gra- 
velines carried down a copy, a present 
from the author to the library of Liege 
College. A Treatise on ihe '■'Legions of 
Rome." was far advanced before he left it 

* This was pul)Ilshed at Rome, in 4to. A. D. 
1755. Illiisttnted with a preface (\nd learned 
Annotations, 



He told me he had only some few- 
quotations to examine, and make some 
few alterations in the Preface or Intro- 
duction. This work is much desired by 
all the learned. Had he published it during 
his life time, his name would have never 
decayed in the memory of the learned. 
According to the custom of our colleges, 
at his death the door of his chamber was 
locked, after the minister had been to make 
a short review of what was within. I de- 
sired F. Rector to speak immediately to the 
Rector of the Roman College, that I might 
have something of his writings in English ; 
for I despaired of getting any thing else. 
The answer from the Roman College was 
very civil, that nothing should be moved 
until F. Elliott*^ or some one by his orders, 
came to look over his papers. I daily press- 
ed the Rector to go : he took me along with 
him. You would have been surprised to 
see what piles of writing there was con- 
tained in his little room ; but our business 
was only to look for English MSS, and two 
or three lent bocks. But as the old man 
wrote chiefly in Latin or Italian, and some- 
limes French, little or no English could be 
discovered, except two or three Abridg- 
ments of as many English Books, chiefly 
upon the English or Scotch History, w^ith 
some papers of his refutation of Dr. Mid- 
dleton's '■^ Pagan and Modern Rome com- 
pared.'' These.few were sent home to me.f 
What will become of the rest, perhaps no 
one will be able to tell. What seemed to 
have any relation to his ** History oj the 
Roman Legions^"" was afterwards put apart, 
together with his vast Collection of Inscrip- 
tions, chiefly gathered and deciphered by 
himself in different parts of Europe. In 
looking over his papers, I observed what 
he had too much honor to make known dur- 
ing his life, namely, that he had a principal 
hand in compiling those works, which 
made our Father Azevedo-'sJ name so 

• F. Nath, Elliott was Rector of the English 
College at Rome, from 1756 to 1762. 

t In a loose note written by F. Thorpe, I find 
that F. Lesley had a series of 20 or SO letters written 
partly in English and partly in Latin, by F. John 
Tempest, who had been his companion in the 
Roman College. This F. Tempest had been ordered 
to attend my Lady Gerard in her travels to Jeru- 
salem. In the descriptions of the countries tbrougi^ 
which he passed, he displays good taste and 
criticism, and a thorough acquaintance with ihe 
Greeli and Latin classics. They had been sent to 
F. Lesley by an Italian Count to be revised and 
enriched with annotations. F. Lesley had often 
spoken of them to F. Thorpe in terms of high com- 
mendation. 

I Father Emanuel Azevedo, born atCoimbra, 
I5lh Dec 1713: in the sequel became one of 
the most distinguished Scholars and Theologians in 
the Society of Jesus. In vol 90 Supplement primi 
Bibliothecae Scriptorum S. J. Ronie 1814, we read 
"illud profecto verum est^rev<'(/«M magnam partem 
habuisso in Kdilione Komana cperuni Benedicti XIV, 
qu£u «ejr millcLus addilamentis et coirccdoni/ius illut- 
travit," oh (|u;c ctalia onicia praislita aby/^i-rifdo, dig- 
natus fuil Jicnediotus XIV. brevibus Uteris ad ejus 
Genitorem Joseplnini, missis 1750, ila do tilio Em- 
manuelc loqui, " Pater Emmanuel de Azevedo, S. J 



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famous throughout Italy, and which 
gained hitn so much the favour of his 
Holiness. But that trick has been prac- 
tised by greater men ; for it is known to 
several that the late Father Julii com- 
posed the Treatise " De Synodo Dio- 
ccEsana^" which is greatly esteemed 
among the works of Benedict XIV," So 
far F. Thorpe. 

Lesley, Andrew, brother of FF. 
John and William Lesley, left his 
family in Aberdeenshire to enter the No- 
vitiate of the Society in Belgium early in 
1627, but finished his studies at Rome. He 
was a man of considerable talent and ob- 
servation, as his MS. letters abundantly 
prove ; and Scotland and Religion may 
well be proud of him, as one of their 
brightest ornaments. After dischaiging 
for about 16 years missionary duties, 
chiefly in the Highlands, he was seized 
in May, 1647, and conveyed to Aberdeen, 
where he had to undergo an examination. 
The wisdom and boldness of his answers 
filled Catholics with consolation and joy : 
whilst his meekness and patience amidst 
injuries and the privations and severity of 
imprisonment, extorted the praise and 
admiration of his bitterest enemies. 
These were indeed days of trial and mi- 
sery for the poor afflicted Catholics. F. 
Gall, in his letter, 26 June, 1647, after 
extolling this glorious confessor and pii- 
soner of Christ, says, "The other mem- 
bers of our Society who are now em- 
ployed in this most painful mission, are 
reduced to the greatest extremities ; they 
can hardly abide for two days together 
in the houses of Catholics : their usual lot is 
to wander in solitudes and in the caverns 
of the earth, to endure hunger and thirst ; 
but they rejoice notwithstanding to be ac- 
counted worthy to suffer these incon- 
veniences for the name of Jesus." Soon 
after his commitment to Abderdeen Gaol, 
the pestilence broke out, and made great 
havoc in the town ; his zeal for souls in- 
duced him to petition for leave to attend 
the infected and dying : but he petitioned 
in vain. Removed to Edinburgh gaol, he 
found a brief opportunity of writing, on 
27 March, 1648, a note to the General 
F. Vincent Caraffa. It is still extant, and 
from the paleness of the ink which the cir- 
cumstances obliged him to use, the charac- 
ters are difficult to decipher. — We copy the 
whole letter, for fear that it might other- 
wise perish. 

Adm. Rde. in Chro. P. 

Quae vel P. Vrse, vel Societati universae 
ah ineunte setate, debeam officia, nuUis 
nnquam verbis exprimere potui : nunc ex 
carcere difficilius signifloare possum. Nam 



religiosus quern summopere diligimus, turn propter 
niorum probitatem. tnm propter sacrarum rerum 
scientiam, et demumob continuos, quibus premitur, 
labores innostris operibus praelo dandis, &c." 



et P. Vae. anspiciis plurima mihi fausta 
hoc tempore contigerunt, et me Societatis 
fovent merita quotidiana : licet in ea nu- 
merum compleara, virtutes non expleam. 
Narrationem adornare cceperam de toto 
comprehensionis raese cursu ; sed perficere 
et ad exitum perducere non conceditur. 
Spero nunc verno tempore elaborandum. 
Mihi nec initio necem, sed carcerem diu- 
turnum, non supplicium sed exilium mi- 
nantur. Utinam sirailis martyrum efficiar 
passionibus. Severiores, inedia me atque 
squalore interire exoptant; verum qui 
nobis praeest, vere Pater, vere Nutritor, 
creberrirae inopiara raeam sublevavif. 
Socii atque amici cseteri egregie preesidiis 
concurrunt. Opto cursuin consummare, et 
sanguine eequitatem causse, quam Haeresis 
impugnat, asserere, sed raoram injicit. 
Fautores plurimi ex carne etiam et san- 
guine intercedunt : paene universi in Exilii 
Psenam verti omnia praedjcant, atque ut id 
fiat allaborant. Qusedam mihi, quam caeteris 
qui ante me Ergastulo delenti erant, magis 
singularia evenerunt. Serpebat in ea, 
Urbe in qua inclusus eram, lues quae vel 
contagionem indies et mortem, vel Fameni 
inferre videbatur; ipsis paucitas, mihinimia 
multitudo in custodia sociorum: fautores 
alicubi et huraanitatis officia non pauca : 
visitare, qui velint frequentiores : discep- 
tatio cum Haereiicis praeter unam, nulla ; vel 
non audent, vel non vacat, adeo omnia tu- 
multuum sunt plena. Plura addere teraporis 
morula non patitur: spero occasioneni postea, 
adfuturam. Felicem me putavi semper 
cum Societatis roeprecibus adjuvari, tum P. 
Vae. caritati me commendatum novi. 
Gaudia et exultationes in hac Palaestra non 
deficere Deus optimus providit mihi. Ego 
omnia ad ipsius majorem evenire gloriam 
precor. P. Vae minimus servulus in Chro, 
Andreas Lesleius, S. J. 

27 Martii An. 1648, ex carcere Edinbur- 
gensi in Scotia. 
Indorsed — Adm. R, in Chro. P. P. 

Vincentio Caraffae Stis. Jesu. 
Roraam Praepto. Grali. 
The above-mentioned F. Gall, in a subse- 
quent letter, viz. 30th June, 1648, describes 
the miseries of his Catholic countrymen 
and brethren. " The Calvinist Ministers 
force themselves into the Catholic houses, 
remove the Catholic servants, substitute 
others of their own leaven, oblige the fa- 
mily to attend morning and evening daily 
at their prayers, and tear away children 
from their parents to be educated in heresy. 
For more than a year F. Andrew Lesley 
has been their prisoner. It is his earnest 
desire to suffer death for religion ; but their 
object is to dispatch him by hunger and 
misery. With the greatest difficulty have 
our Fathers hitherto escaped the snares 
and vigilance of their enemies, and as most 
of the adherents to the ancient faith are 
either driven into banishment or consigned 
to [risen, our missionaries can scarcely find 



27 



any biding places, where they may in safety 
offer to God the unbloody sacrifice, or 
recite their Breviary." Through the exer- 
tions of friends, and the influence of the 
French Ambassador, Count Montreal, F. 
Lesley was released from prison in July, 
1648, and ordered to quit the realm, under 
penalty of death, should he venture to re- 
turn. With broken health, and suffering 
severe bodily pain, he reached the Scotch 
College at Douay, where as Spiritual Father 
he infused his own generous spirit among its 
Alumni. F. Gall, in a letter dated Douay, 2 
January, 1649, earnestly recommended him 
to the General as the future successor of F. 
Thomas Dempster in the Rectorship of the 
Scotch College at Home. He describes him 
as eminently prudent, as a lover of peace, 
and one specially qualified for the office by 
his perfect acquaintance with the language 
and cfstoras of Italy. When and where 
this Confessor of the Faith finished his meri- 
torious life, 1 have not succeeded in learning. 

Lesley, Chaules, was a tellow Novice 
with the learned Pere le Pointe, in France. 
On coming to the English'mission, he resi- 
ded for a time at Woodstock, then at Tus- 
more, and lastly fixed himself at Oxford, 
where he erected, in 1793, a very neat cha- 
pel about 70 feet long and 30 wide. By 
his amiable manners and classical taste, he 
conciliated the respect and esteem of many 
members of the university, 'i'o the regret 
of his flock and numerous friends, he was 
carried off by a paralytic stroke, on the 28th 
December, 180G, and was buried in the 
sanctuary of his chapel, with the following 
Epitaph :— 

Here lies the body of 
The Reverend Charles Leslie, 
Who built this Chapel 
in the year 1793. 
He died the 28th of December, 1806, 
aged 59, 
Requiescat in Pace. 

Lesley, James, elder brother of Charles ; 
after serving tlie Grafton mission for 9 years 
he succeeded to 'his brother in the mission of 
Oxford ; but left it in the autumn of 1812 to 
be Chaplain to Peter Middleton, Esq. He 
died at that gentleman's seat, Stockheld 
Park, Yorkshire, 95 August, 1816, set. 75, 
and was buried at Spofforlh. 

Lesley, John, the youngest of the 
brothers ofFF. Andrew and \A'illiam, re- 
turned a missioner to Scotland in 1628, and 
died seven years later, viz. 23 May, 1635. 
During the last year and a half of his life, 
he was a great invalid ; but no consideration 
for his health, no apprehension of personal 
danger, could induce him to retire from his 
post. In his last illness he had the conso- 
lation of being attended by his brother, 
Father Andrew, who sent a moving and 
edifying account of his death to the Gen- 
eral F. Mutius Vitelleschi. 

Some of the letters of F. John Lesley to 



the said General are preserved. One of 30 
Sept. 1633, is particularly interesting, in 
which he describes the coronation of Charles 
I. at Holy-Rood House, Edinburgh, on the 
I8th of the preceding June ; and the pro- 
ceedings of the Parliament in that city. 
He ends with this observation : — " Plura 
hujus Parliamenti acta in gravissimura et 
evidentissimum Reipublicae el Populi dam- 
num tenduQt, ut jactatum ex Populi voce 
fuerit, Regis in Scotiam adventum, Christi 
in Hierosolymorumingressuisimilem fuisse, 
cui Palmarum die canebatur Hosanna in 
Excelsis, &c. ; paucis diebus post ingemi- 
nabatur Crucifige, Crucifige. Narratura hoc 
ab Joanne Leslaeo, Insularura noa pridem 
Episcopo, homine liberrimo,prandenti Regi 
in utriusque regni confinio j quo audito, 
illico ahstinuit a cibo." 

Lesley, Joseph, was admitted into the 
Society at Watten, 31 October, ]688, setat 
17. 1 cannot trace him further, but am in- 
formed that he became confessor to the 
pious King Stanislaus, and died at Nanci. 

Lesley, William, elder brother of 
Andrew and John ; was sent to the 
Scottish Mission in 1617, and his ar- 
rival may be regarded as an sera in the 
restoration of religion. At that time there 
were but two of his brethren in the High- 
lands, and as many in the Lowlands. In 
1628 I meet with ten Fathers of the So- 
ciety, and the number subsequently in- 
creased. For some years F. William 
Lesley was their Superior, and usually 
resided with the Earl of Errol, the Con- 
stable of Scotland. In a letter of I 
May, 1629, he relates the proceedings of 
the persecutions in Scotland. The year 
before. King Charles I. had addressed a 
Proclamation to the Bishops and Minis- 
ters to mark down and send to the Privy 
Council, twice in the year, viz. in No- 
vember and July, the list of all Catholics 
who declined to attend the service of the 
Law Church. The denounced Catholics 
■were to be diligently searched for, and 
placed under safe custody. Their souls 
and bodies by the horrible sentence of ex- 
communication were to be given over to 
Satan : they weie to be treated as rebels — 
their property confiscated. After putting 
out the fire ia their apartments, the Ca- 
tholic owners were to be ejected from 
their homes, and the keys to be delivered 
to the King's Officers. Such was the bar- 
barity of the bigots and zealots, that an 
illustrious lady, in the very time of child- 
birth, with her sick children, was turned 
adrift, in the presence of the astonished 
multitude of both sexes. A widow with all 
her children and domestics, was forcibly 
ejected in another place. Every day af- 
forded the spectacle of Catholic women 
hurried to gaol, for daring to serve God 
according to Iheir conscience, and the re- 
ligion of their forefathers. In another Iclter 



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of F. William Lesley, dated 1 September, 
1630, I read that the Catholics who had 
appeared before the Council ia the pre- 
vious month of July, women and men, had 
all been sentenced to perpetual banishment ; 
seven weeks were alio reed to prepare for 
their departure : one third of their rents was 
granted for the maintenance of their fami- 
lies, which third however would be forfeited 
should they venture to return, besides the 
penalty to'be incurred of fine and perpetual 
imprisonment. The Courts of Equity were 
to be shut to the suits of Catholics, and 
their enemies openly boasted that Catho- 
licity should be extirpated from the realm 
of Scotland. Still they claimed credit for 
clemency, because they spared the lives of 
the Papists. From all that 1 have read, 1 
am led to believe that the persecution of the 
Scotch Catholics was conducted with more 
cold-blooded and remorseless barbarity, 
than was exercised against the primitive 
Christians during the ten General Persecu- 
tions under the Heathen Emperors, 

The date of F. William Lesley's death I 
look for in vain. 

Lesley, William, Aloysius, of Aber- 
deenshire, born in 1641. At the Age of 25, 
when a Doctor of Divinity, he joined the 
Society at Rome. On 10 February, 1674, 
he was appointed Superior of the Scotcii 
College at Rome — an office which he retained 
for nine years. For the last 19 years of his 
life he served the Scotch mission, where he 
died in 1794. 

F. Lesley was a man of talent and busi- 
ness. We have from his pen, the Life of 
St. Margaret of Scotland, written in 
Italian. 12mo. Rome, 1675. 

Q. Was he the author of An Answer to 
Monsieur de Radon's Tombeau de la 
3Iesse? This Answer to the Calvinist 
Minister is a small 8vo pp.137. Printed 
at Douay, in 16S1. 

Levingstox, James, was of the Vene- 
tian Province, and born about 1654 ; entered 
the Society at Bologna, August 4, 1678, 
and in 16S6 was studying the fourth year 
of Divinity, when he was applied for, to 
serve the Scotch mission. It seems how- 
ever that he was not sent over till 1691. 
He was professed at Aberdeen, August 15, 
1695. In 1712 he occurs Superior of his 
brethren in Scotland. 

Mackenzie, Kenneth, was born 4 May, 
1704. At the age of 20 he enrolled himself 
among the children of St. Ignatius at Ma- 
drid : and ou finishing a triennial course of 
Philosophy at Murcia, was employed for 
some years in the Scotch College at Ma- 
drid, to teach the Classics. His Theologi- 
cal studies were pursued in the College 
of Louis -le-Grand, at Paris ; and in that 
city he was promoted to Holy Orders. He 
reached Edinburgh as a missionary on 19 
February, 1737; but his career was short, 
for he was cut down io the flower of life 



and usefulness at Munches, on 14 Novem- 
ber, 1744. 

Macky, Andrew — This Father was 
preparing to leave London for Rome in 
1685. He died Rector of the Scotch College 
at Rome late in the ysar 1690. 

Mc Gill, William, was Rector of the 
Scotch College at Madrid ; but I can offer 
no particulars. 

Macleod, William. — He was living 
in Scotland certainly in November, 1775. 

MacRae, Alexander, born in Scotland 
2 April 1672 : entered the Novitiate at 
Tournay 24 Feb 1692, but by order of Su- 
periors completed it at Brun, in 3Ioravia ; 
studied Philosophy and Theology, at Prague. 
Towards the end of October, 1703, he reach- 
ed the Scotch mission, and was admitted to 
the profession of the four vows in Castello 
de Braan," by F.Alexander Seton, on 5 
February. 1710, 0. S. I meet him 28 Jan- 
uaiy, 1732, at Braan, " in vineS Dui opera- 
rius." His death took place at Douay, 1748. 

Magilivray, James. — After studying 
Hurannities with Mr. John Chisholm * in 
the Scotch College, he removed from Douay 
to Uinant (when F. John Pepper was Rec- 
tor) and witnessed soon after his Novitiate, 
the suppression of the Society. On receiv- 
ing Holy Orders he became Chaplain in 
17/8, or 1779, at Traquair, county Peebles. 
His noble and venerable patron, Charles 
Stuart, seventh Earl of Traquair, in a letter 
to the Rev.F. Stone, of 19 September, 1814, 
states that his late Cbaplain, Mr. Magilli- 
vray, (who died 4 April, 1811,) was " the 
last of the Scotch Jesuits." He was plea- 
sed to add, " I was educated at St. Omer's 
College, am sincerely attached to the Socie- 
ty, and congratulate you on its restoration. 
From a letter now before me, written by 
F. John Pepper, and dated Terregles, 17 
January, 1803, I learn that Mr. James Mc' 
Gillivray entered the Novitiate in October, 
1768, and after his first Vows studied Phi- 
losophy with the Jesuits at Luxemburgh, 
and was already named by the Provincial 
to be Regent of the College of Namur, when 
the suppression of the Society took place. 

Was not the former Chaplain to Earl 
Traquair's family, the notorious Rev. 
Alexander Geddes, who died so unhappily, 
20 February, 1802, set. 65? 

Mambrecht, John, (who sometimes 
signed himself, Du Pre) was of a good 
Scotch Family, and connected with the 
Ogilvies. After serving the mission for 
some time, he was called to London to be 

♦ This worthy Ecclesiastic went to the Novitiate 
at Tournay in 1772, the year before the suppression 
of the Society, and through life cherished a special 
affect ion to the Institute of St. Ignatius. On Feb- 
ruary 12th 1792, he was consecrated Bishop of the 
Highlands by the title of Oriensis. Writing to a 
friend from Lismore, 12 November, 1S07, he feelingly 
says— "I wish 1 was allowed once more to begin ray 
Novitiate : the only year I had of it was I believe, 
the best of my life." Bishop Chisholm, died Jnly 
8,1814. 



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confessor to the French embassy— a situa- 
tion that he filled with credit to himself 
and the Society for a year and a half during 
the latter part of the reign of James I. and 
the beginning of Charles I. This office pro- 
cured him an introduction to the Court, and 
he says in a letter, dated Antwerp, 7 April, 
1(528, that Kiog James had treated him 
with much kindness. Jacobo Regi 
familiarissimus per annum fui, etiam 
ilU notuSyUt Societatis nostrce.** 

Retiring from the Court, he returned to 
the Scotcli Mission, in the Lent of 1626. 
In December the same year he was appre- 
hended at Dundee by the Bishop of Brechin, 
and committed to Edinburgh Gaol. We 
learn from his own report, that he passed 
rather more than six months in his loath- 
some prison; that the warrant for his being 
hanged had received the royal signature ; 
but had been cancelled at the earnest in- 
treaty of the Queen and the Countess of 
Buckingham, (ths Duke's mother) ; he la- 
ments that his coastant prayer for martyr- 
dom, whicli he had offered to God from his 
youth upwards, had not deserved to be 
granted ; yet he hopes that eventually God, 
in his mercy, will not deny him this glorious 
end— that during his imprisonment no friend 
was allowed to visit him — that he was in- 
terdicted the use of pen and paper— that his 
only comfort was the cross that hung a- 
round his neck, and his Breviary, when the 
light in his gloomy cell would permit him to 
use it ; that twice during the 24 hours a 
turnkey brought him a scanty provision of 
food, barely sufficient to support nature. 
Before the end of June, 1627, he was dis- 
charged ; but his confinement in that filthy 
prison brought on a long and dangerous 
illness, and it was only in the Spring fol- 
lowing that he was able to walk abroad. F. 
William Lesley, in a letter of 22 June, 1627, 
says of him, that this prisoner had conduct- 
ed himself so well in the cause of Religion, 
as to leave the realm with satisfaction and 
comfort to the Catholics, and with the re- 
commendation and admiration of their ene- 
mies. 

His subsequent history I obtain from p. 
161, of Drews' Fasti Societatis Jesu,'' 
printed at Brunsberg. 1723. It relates his 
retirement into Poland, where he was 
wholly engaged in hearing the confessions 
of various nations ; Italians, the inhabitants 
o f Great Britain, Germans, French, Spa- 
niards, and Hollanders, of whose languages 
he was a perfect master— that he was emi- 
nent for his devotion to the passion of Jesus 
Christ, and that he perpetually regretted his 
having been disappointed of suffering mar- 
tyrdom for his crucified Lord. This vene- 
rable Confessor died at Warsaw. 28 April. 
1670. ^ 

Mambrecht, James, reached the Scotch 
mission, in 1627, at the very time that 
F. John Mambrecht, who calls hira 



" cognattts meusy " was on the point 
of leaving it. He was placed as chaplain 
with George Seton, third Earl of Win- 
toun.* After residing in this capacity 
nearly twelve years, and endearing himself 
to all, his noble patron was accused of 
harbouring a Popish Priest, and such was 
the envenomed malice of the Puritans, 
that with the advice of his friends, F. 
Mambrecht was induced to withdraw him- 
self for a time, as many Catholics did, into 
England, as a shelter from the storm of 
persecution. However he soon returned to 
support the declining cause of religion. I 
find by his letter of 17 December, 1640, 
that " he considered all their former and 
present afflictions as but the preludes to 
future evils. Within the last ten 
days orders have been published through- 
out Scotland not to sell anything to Catho- 
lics, or buy any thing of them. Many are 
already deprived of their rents and income. 
Several Catholics have oflfered three-fourths 
of their property, provided they may keep 
the remaining fourth for the maintenance of 
themselves and their families, and even this 
is refused. Nay, our adversaries impiously 
swear, that not a single Catholic shall live 
or remain in Scotland by the end of the year. 
I pass by numerous instances of insolence 
and outrage. A noble Baron, 70 years old 
and more, was seized in England and 
brought to Edinburgh, whose family they 
ruined,, whose property they have confis- 
cated : at the end of six months' imprison- 
ment, he died most piously on the 3rd of 
the present month. On the 30th ult., the 
feast of St. Andrew, the tutelary saint of 
Scotland, one of our Fathers ( the context 
shews it was the writer) paid him a visit, 
and succeeded on the following night, with 
imminent danger to himself, to say Mass, and 
administer all the Holy Sacraments. There 
is no one for us, but the Good Jesus : yet 
if he be for us, what matter who is against 
us ? The only concern I have had during 
nearly the two last years, is, that I remain 
alone in this southern part of the kingdom, 
and I have no one, whose help I can procure 
for the good of my soul, and every hour I 
expect either to be taken, or compelled to 
quit the country.*' 

In a letter of 13 June, 1641, he says— 
*' Such is the fury and power of the Puri- 
tans, that their will is impunity. They 
seek to extinguish every spark of orthodoxy 
—that every vestige and the very name of 
Catholic may be eflFaced. Against those 
who decline to take the Covenant, the pro- 
ceedings are carried on with the extremity 
of rigour. Such and so general a persecution 
I have never yet seen, nor has any Catholic, 
since the true Faith was first banished from 
this kingdom. I am the only one left in 
this south part of Scotland, but as long as 

♦ Died 17th December. 1650, aet, 65, and was bu- 
ried at SetoD. 



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I am able to slay, I have decided with the 
help of God to remain, whilst I have a place 
where to lay ray head, though ray lot must 
be extreme misery and perpetual fear and 
danger. God grant that I may save even 
one soul from shipwreck : and may good 
Jesus show me what things I raay suffer for 
his name. Oh ! how I wish I could die for 
Hira.'' 

In another letter of 5 July, 1642, he ob- 
serves, " that for the last two years he has 
received no answer to his communications — 
that during the last and present year, the 
Kirk Assembly has been occupied in extir- 
pating Catholic Faith, and rooting up every 
monument of ancient piety — that their bru- 
tal violence has been spending itself against 
the iraages of the crucified Redeemer, and 
his most blessed Mother — that very recently 
in the town of Inderhiden, in Fifeshire, a 
noble stone cross, superiorly worked, which 
stood in the Market-place, was doomed to 
destruction. The ministers had given the 
commission to a mason, who made all the 
usual preparations ; after mounting the lad- 
der and scaffold, he came down under the pre- 
tence of wanting a tool ; but hurried from the 
town, and meeting a person on the road, he 
declared that he was deterred, and that 
nothing should induce him to injure and de- 
stroy that figure of Christ. Another man 
■was obtained, who completed the job ; but 
strange to say, he had no sooner come down 
from the ladder, than he was paralized in 
all his limbs, and continues to this very day 
motionless and bedridden. But their hearts 
are hardened. There is soon to be a general 
search through the kingdom for Church fur- 
niture, and rosaries and Catholic books, 
&c. and they are determined, as they say, to 
make their last effort, not to leave a Catho- 
lic in this kingdom." 

In August, 1642, this zealous and patient 
Father still remained without a helper, 
*' Solus ego modo in his meridionalibus 
partibus relictus sum. Dominus est; quod 
bonum est, in oculis suisfaciat." 

In the following April, he briefly notices 
the iniquity and tyranny of the times — the 
order for the gentry to dismiss all Catholic 
domestics — and for all Catholic children to 
be sent to the heretical schools — and the 
active search that was going on for the few 
priests, who could rarely abide for three 
days in the same place ; but still faithfully 
discharged their duty. 

In such a state of misery and destitution, 
and exposed to the implacable malice of the 
ministers of the kirk, banishment and even 
death must have been a relief to the suffering 
Catholics. It sometimes occured to him to go 
on board a vessel, and bid adieu to his un- 
grateful country ; but then the thought of 
what would be the forlorn condition of his 
scattered flock rushed into his mind, and he 
determined to remain with them to the very 
last : too happy indeed, if like the good 



shepherd he could lay down his life for his 
sheep. 

During much of this time, and even for 
seven long years, F. Marabrecht was Supe- 
rior of his BB. but it was most difficult to 
hold any intercourse or receive any infor- 
mation. In his letter of 29 October, 1646, 
he says, for the last two years he could not 
visit those in the North even by letter : that 
he was unacquainted as yet, whether F. 
John Seton, whom he had long time com- 
missioned to receive the religious profession 
of F. William Grant, had been able to do 
so; that he understood that he had sailed 
for Norway ; but, whether he had yet re- 
turned he could not ascertain* He implored 
the new General, F, Vincent Caraffa, as he 
had done his predecessor, F. Mutius Vitel- 
leschi, to discharge him from an office to 
which he always believed himself to be un- 
equal. 

For part of the subsequent history of 
this truly good man, we are indebted to an 
intercepted letter of F. Robert Gall, bearing 
date 23 October, 1653, and published in 
Volume 1st of the Thurloe Slate Papers, 
pp. 538-9. He says that he had reached 
Scotland towards the end of last August, 
and had thrice visited F. James Marabrecht 
in Edinburgh goal, where he had been kept 
a close prisoner nearly ten months ; but 
found him serene and cheerful, and ready to 
suffer shame and death for the name of J esus. 
F. Gall administered to him that pledge of 
divine love, the Holy Communion, which he 
received with abundant tears mingled with 
joy, and with incredible delight to both. 
Understanding that the civil authorities 
were reluctant to execute their prisoner, and 
that his constitution was impaired, even to 
the spitting of blood, by the severity of his 
confinement, F. Gall left no stone unturned 
to obtain his freedom. The Government 
consented to his release, provided he would 
take an oath to go into perpetual banish* 
ment, and find two securities in a large sura, 
and pay a sura of money himself before his 
discharge. F. Marabrecht avowed that ho 
would rather rot in goal, than bind himself 
to conditions so unjust and so discreditable 
to his religious profession. 

The correctness of this account is con- 
firmed by a letter of this worthy Confessor 
of Christ himself, dated Douay, 9 March, 
1654. He relates that on 9 November last, 
he was led from gaol to the Judges, who 
had been much displeased some months be- 
fore by his refusal to offer a petition for his 
life, after having received sentence of death, 
and by his subsequent refusal to pay down 
£\m. penalty, and fine bail for ^£^500. and 
to depart the Kingdom within the space of 
one month, and never return theietoi After 
descanting on the clemency of the Govern- 
ment, they discharged him by proclamation, 
on 14 November, 1653, in the eleventh 
month of his iraprisonment. He reached 



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Douay on 6 March following, where I lose 
sight of him. The memory of so good a 
man deserves to be perpetuated. 

Martin, William. All that I can 
learnof hirais from a letter of F. James Gor- 
don (Huntly), dated Bordeaux, 11 March, 
1 6J 1. "I have heard that the Earl of Tyrone 
of Ireland, who lives at JRome, complains 
much of our brother William Martin ; there- 
fore I have taken care that William should 
write to him, and vindicate himself." 

Maxwell, Albert. The name of 
Maxwell is of all others the most numerous 
in the Fasti of Scotch Jesuits. F. Albert 
was Chaplain to King James II. at St. Ger- 
raaine's, and is described by F. James 
Forbes, in a letter dated from Douay, 26 
January, 1691, as Vir solidce virtutis et 
doctrince." A few days later, viz. 2 Feb- 
ruary, he was professed of Ihe four vows at 
Paris. He continued attached to the Court 
many years : thence he retired to Watten, 
where he filled the Office of Spiritual Father, 
and there he died on 18 January, 1729, 

Maxwell, Charles, was born 23 Jan- 
uary, 1748 : studied Humanities partly 
at Douay, and partly at Dinant ; enter- 
ed the Society at Tournay, 28 Septem- 
ber, 1767, and there took the scholastic 
vows. For many years he served the Scotch 
mission. He was Prefect in the new 
Scotch College in Dinant, at the dissolution 
of the Order. Eeturning to Douay, he there 
finished his studies, and with his confrere 
Mr. J. Mc'Gillivray, took the Mission Oath, 
but both reserved to themselves the full 
power of rejoining the old Standard of the 
Society, as soon as Providence should re- 
store it. In a letter now before me he says 
" I have a copy by me of that Oath, signed 
by me and Rev. Robert Grant, President, 
and P»,ev. Andrew Oliver, Vice-President 
of the College : after promising never to 
embrace any religious Order, the following 
exception is inserted and bublineS, " ex- 
cepta Societal e Jesu, si unquam vcl ex 
toto, vel ex paite quocumque modo, sub 
quocumque nomine^ in quocumque regno 
vel provittcid, sive expressesive tacite, 
tanttim consentienle Sede ^postolicd, 
Juerit instaurata." He was chosen in 
1797 by the unanimous consent of the Mis- 
sionaries to take the trust and management 
of the temporalities, and he continued to act 
in this capacity of Procurator until his death, 
which happened at Edinburgh, on 5 March, 
1811. 

Maxwell, Francis, a man of talent and 
solid virtue, was preparing for the Scotch 
mission in 1691. Sixteen years later I find 
him there ; but suffering from a dangerous 
humour in his eyes. He was living in Gal- 
loway in 1707. 

Maxwell, Frederick, son of Lord Her- 
ries— He was living in Scotland, in October, 
1653 . He died Rector of the Scotch College 
at Madrid, " in odore Sanctitatis ; " but 
the dale I cannot learn. 



Maxwell, George, son of William 
Maxwell, of Kiikconneli, was born 13 Oc- 
tober, 1714, and entered a Novice at Tour- 
nay, 28 September, 1732. After qualifying 
himself by proper studies for the mission, 
he returned to Scotland, 30 October, 1744. 
He made his solemn profession atTereigles, 
13 January, 1749, and succeeded F. John 
Pepper in 1772, in the Rectorship of the 
new College at Dinant. Shortly after 
the Suppression of the Order he returned 
to Scotland. His last will bears date 
26 August, 1796, and he died on 5 Novem- 
ber, 1802,at Edinburgh. 

"At six o'clock in the evening, (as I find 
by F. John Pepper's letter, of 21 January, 
1803) 3 November, 1802, his maid came to 
his room to know if he wanted any thing : 
she found him as ordinary in his chair, with 
a spiritual book in his hand. Not being able 
to awake him, she was affrighted, and ran 
for F. Charles Maxwell, who came im- 
mediately, found him really dying, adminis- 
tered the Extreme Unction and last Absolu- 
tion, and about an hour after, at eight o'clock, 
the good old man breathed calmly his last, 
in presence of Bishop Cameron and the 
other Clergyman, whom Mr. Maxwell had 
called to be witness with him of his last 
moments. R.I. P. The same Father re- 
lates that F. Geo. Maxwell left his property 
for the good of the Scotch mission until the 
restoration of the Society of Jesus, when 
the , principal (about <^1900) was to be 
transferred without interest, to the General of 
the Society, or his Proxy. This was sign- 
ed by Bp. Hay, Mr. Charles Maxwell, and 
Jas.Farquharson, Esq. 

Maxwell, Herbert. — I meet with this 
Rev. Father at Douay, on 10 June, 1G86 ; 
but about three months later, he was appoin- 
ed Chaplain to Earl Melfont, the principal 
Secretary for Scotland, who had been re- 
cently converted with all his family to the 
Catholic Faith. Further particulars I can- 
not recover. Probably he shared in the 
fortunes of his Patron at the Revolution, 
who emigrated to St. Germaine's, and who 
died therein January, 1714. 

Maxwell, John, was born 22 August, 
1662, and joined the Society 18 October, 
1702. This excellent scholar and worthy 
Father returned to Scotland inAugust 1717; 
but owing to the difficulties ot the times did 
not become a Professed Member of the So- 
ciety until 4 July , 1720. Retiring in his 
old age to Douay, he there finished his pious 
course, 5 January, 1759. 

Maxwell, KoGER, boin 18 April, 1664; 
joined the Society at Nancy at the age of 
16 : studied at Font-a-Mousson. After 
spending some years on the Mission, was 
obliged to retire from bad health and the 
violence of the Persecution. At the age cf 
34 wasnumbered with the professed Fathei^. 

Maxwell, Siepiikn, a man of superior 
merit. He was born in 1666; was cducaltd 
in the National College ai Douay, and cm- 



F 



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braced the Institute of St. Ignatius, in the 
province of Tholouse. Endowed with great 
talents, he improved them by diligent cul- 
tivation. After filling the chair of Philoso- 
phy at Carcasson, he was ordered to the 
Scotch mission, where he was a model of 
zeal, humility, and charity. At the Revo- 
lution he fell into the hands of the enemies 
of the Catholic Faith, who kept him im- 
mured in Blackness Castle for some years ; 
but here he had the comfort of being ad- 
mitted to the solemn vows of his order : and 
being a good Biblical scholar, he employed 
much of his spare time in collating the Sa- 
cred Volume with the Hebrew text. Re- 
stored to Liberty he proceeded to Douay, 
where he was appointed Prefect of Studies, 
and subsequently Vice-Rector, Rector, 
and Procurator. His services being required 
in his native country, he returned home in 
1703, and for the greater part of the re- 
mainder of his life was the vigilant and gen- 
tle superior of his brethren. Bishop 
T. Nicholson, the first Vicar Apostolic of 
Scotland, and his coadjutor and successor 
Bishop J ames Gordon, held him in the high- 
est esteem and regard. The last mentioned 
Prelate, in a letter dated Edinburgh, 3d 
Nones, June, 1710, to the General M. A. 
Tamburini, styles F. Maxwell " vir pru- 
deniice egregia'* This learned and ve- 
nerable Father died of consumption (tabe 
absumptus est), on 10 August, 1713, F. 
FairfuU, in reporting his most edifying end 
to the Rector of the Scotch College atRome, 
says, that from early youth he had retained 
through life the custom of sleeping in a hair 
shirt — that his life had been irreproachable 
and that he was a most worthy son of the 
Society of Jesus. 
Maxwell, Stephen Ignatius, was born 

I June, 1688. He joined the Society at 
Paris, 21 September, 1704, and studied 
Philosohhy at La Fleche, and Theology at 
Paris. For several years he was employed 
in teaching Humanities. After his promotion 
to the rank of a Professed Father, he was 
appointed to the Scotch mission in 1726 j 
but his career of usefulness was arrested by 
death, on 28 November, 1734. 

Maxwell, William Axdrew, was born 
28 February, 1717. At Paris he enlisted 
himself under the banner of St. Ignatius 
10 September, 1733, In the sequel he 
distinguished himself as a scholar. On the 

II January, 1750, this Rev, Father re- 
turned to Scotland ; but when the friends of 
religion were expecting great things from 
his zeal and talents, they had but to witness 
his premature but most religious death a 
few months after his arrival at Aberdeen. 
The mournful event took place on the feast 
of his Holy Founder, 31 July, 1750. 

Menzies, James, born 27 Sept. 1639: 
was admitted into the Order at Paris 6 Oct. 
1661 : eighteen years later made his solemn 
profession : was long Procurator of the mis- 



sion in France : and for some years was 
missionary in his native country 

In F. Thomas Roby's letter, written 
from Douay, 4 December, I64I, I read 
" hue profesto St. Andrew pervenerunt 
bini fratres, duo Menesi^ duo Lomas- 
danii, omnes, Aberdonienses." 

In a letter of the same Father Roby, 
dated 9 March, 1644, I read that '* F, 
John Smith had recently converted the 
Baron of Petfodels, the chief of the 
Menzies family ; nor would the convert 
trust himself to a sea voyage, until he 
had been duly fortified with the Sacra- 
ments. He has already set out for France, 
under pretence of bad health : the affair 
is kept secret for just causes." Religion is 
now mourning for the last member of this 
ancient Family, John Menzies Esq. who 
died near Edinburgh U Oct. 1843, set. 87. 
Eleemosinas iUius enarrabit omnis Ecclesia 
Sanctorum.'' 

MoFFET, James. On the death of Geo. 
Home, Earl of Dunbar, ( who died at 
Whitehall, 29 January, 1611, and who as 
High Commissioner of the General Assem- 
bly at Glasgow, had unbounded influence in 
Scotland, and had exercised his implacable 
animosity against the adherents of the 
Catholic Faith), a sudden relaxation of the 
persecution became manifest. The Supe- 
rior of the mission, F. James Gordon, 
(Huntly,) deemed it adviseable to improve 
this favourable opportunity to send over 
some missionaries into Scotland. 

F. Moffet arrived there in 1614. From 
iiis long and interesting letter, dated Ant- 
werp, 13 December, 1615, we learn most 
of the following particulars. For the six 
first months he was gathering a rich harvest 
of souls, and succeeded in celebrating Mass 
almost every day after his landing, when 
through the contrivance of the Bishop of 
St. Andrew's the Father was apprehended 
(in his brother's house in that city, as I learn 
from F.Gordon's letter, dated Paris, 27 
Jan. 1615). The Prelate's eldest son, Arch- 
deacon as he was, did not consider it be— 
neath his dignity to head the guards who 
had arrested the prisoner, and to escort him 
from St. Andrew's to Edinburgh, then com- 
puted a distance of 28 miles. Very fre- 
quently the Father was brought before the 
Privy Council, and subjected to a severe 
cross examination ; many captious argu- 
ments and insidious questions were pro- 
posed, which he parried with admirable 
prudence and dexterity. Unquestionably 
he was a man of acute mind and metaphy- 
sical discrimination, and on these occasion* 
he confesses that he felt himself actually 
assisted in his answers by the Holy Spirit, 
according to the promise of Jesus Christ, 
Matthew x. 19-20. Unable to ensnare him 
in his words, after keeping him in the 
strictest confinement, after changing his 
turnkeys, and denying him the least inter- 
course with his friends, and threatening him 



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with the horrible lorture of the Boots * 
which would have disabled him for life, his 
Judges relunctantly determined ou con- 
tenting themselves with his banishment. 
They held his brother in security for his not 
returning to Scotland, in the sum of three 
thousand marks, and then descanting on their 
justice, which awarded punishment to cri- 
minals only, and on their mercy v/hich did 
not avenge by death mere religious opinions 
(though their hands were yet reeking with 
the blood of F. John Ogil vie), they proceeded 
to pass the sentence of perpetual banishment, 
adding the penalty of death if he should ven- 
ture back into Scotland, Five honest men 
had been committed to goal on his account : 
on three of them sentence of death was pro- 
nounced, because they would not give false 
testimony against the Father, and in the 
very act of the first mounting the ladder to 
be executed, the sentence of death was com- 
muted for perpetual exile. Towards the 
conclusion of his letter, he says, " when his 
enemies could not accomplish their purpose 
by threats of torture, by fraud, and by 
sophistry, they adopted another plan ; they 
offered him a Bishopric and the Abbey of 
Coldinghara, (county Berwick) one of the 
best in the whole country, which still re- 
mains with its leaden roof, ** quod adkuc 
manet plumbeis laminis tectum,^* provided 
he would renounce the Catholic Faith, and 
join theirs. His answer was worthy of the 
faithful Minister of Christ, "If his Majesty 
would even give me his three kingdoms, I 
would never yield to your wishes, nor prove 
a dissembler. Riches will not render me 
happy. Christ affirms ' Blessed are the poor 
in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of 
Heaven.' To obtain this beatitude 1 have 
bound myself by a vow of perpetual poverty, 
and with the blessing of God, will never 
violate this engagement. Abandon there- 
fore every hope of thus inducing me to ex- 
change the Catholic Faith for yours." 

The Father inclosed two certificates, which 
abundantly shew, that he was indebted for 
his escape from death to an over-ruling 
Providence alone, and not at all to the 
clemency of the King, or to the lenient for- 
bearance of the Pseudo-bishop of Scotland. 

"I, Robert Wilkes, citizen of Edinburgh, 
certify and declare, that George Archbishop 
ot St. Andrew's, Primate of the realm of 
Scotland, and John, Archbishop of Glasgow, 
principal Members of the Privy Council, 
together with some other Ministers of Scot- 
Sand, did ofter to me (in order that I might 
betray your Reverence, and affirm that I 
had heard you say Mass, or that you had 
treated with any of their nobilily for their 
conversion to the Faith, or had repaired to 

• " Crucifragiorum torturam quam prapuraiavi 
ad duas iutcgrus menses severe adhibuissent, quam 
nulla rationc timcbam ob dolorcm quern eo tempore 
seiisissem, sed reliquo vita fuissem semper inutilis, 
quia Ossibus copf radii, meduUamez planla pedum 
cxprcssistcni." 



their houses for that purpose), the sum of 
one thousand marks in ready money, as also 
the yearly pension from the King of four 
thousand marks during the term of my life, 
with a free pardon and discharge from my 
long confinement, and from the sentence of 
death, and the grievous confiscation of my 
temporal goods : from which sentence of 
death I was freed by the mercy of Provi- 
dence, when in the act of mounting the 
ladder to be hanged, and which sentence 
of death has been commuted for per- 
petual exile. I do not regret to have suf- 
fered so much for this pious cause, and ara 
ready to suffer more, rather than betray 
your Reverence, or any other Catholic, 
especially a religious man. In witness 
whereof I have signed this with mine own 
hand, in the prison of Edinburgh, this 21 
September, 1615." 

William Synelair* an Advocate in the 
Supreme Court of Scotland, who on the 
same account had been an equal sufferer 
with the above, gave a similar certificate. 

F. Moffet concludes thus : — The above 
certificates may suffice to shov/, that I have 
not gratuitously escaped the fangs of my 
enemies, who have thirsted more eagerly af- 
ter my blood, than ever the hart pants after 
the fountains of water. Most willingly 
would I have satisfied their malice, if such 
had been the will of God ; but this may 
prove the case in a second conflict. In the 
mean while,! cordially commend your pa- 
ternity to the sweetest Jesus, and to his 
most holy Mother, and myself to your pious 
prayers and sacrifices. James Moffet." 

Soon after writing this letter, F. Moffet 
proceeded to Paris, and proposed to visit 
Rome : but here I can follow him no longer. 

MoREViLLE, Francis, 1 meet in Gallo- 
way, during the early part of the last cen- 
tury. 

MoNTEiTH, William, of Glasgow, joined 
the Society at Rome. In the report of the 
English Provincial for the year 1642, he is 
stated to be then 23 years of age, of which 
he had passed five in the Society, and that 
he was studying Theology at Liege. F. 
Southwell, (p. 318 BibLiolheca Scriptorum 
S.J.) informs us, that he was subse- 
quently employed in teaching Humanities 
for eight years, (probably in the Scotch 
Colleges), and that he served the olfice of 

* Edinburgh. 21 June. 1561. The Town Coun- 
cil ordains Mr. George Strachan, priest, to depart 
forth of this town and bounds thereof, within 
twelve days next hereafter, and that he be not found 
therein until they be fully certified of his public re- 
pentance against his papistrie. 

Edinburgh, 14 July, 1615. William Sinclair, ad- 
vocate ; Rbt. Wilkie, embroiderer; andRbt. Cruick- 
shanks. stabler, — all in Edinburgh, were tried before 
the Court of Justiciary, and condemned to be exe- 
cuted, for assisting at Masses, said in Wilkie's house, 
and for sheltering John Ogilvie, and Masters Moffat 
and Campbell, Jesuits. Master Moffat was har- 
boured a day or two in Sinclair's house — Master 
Ogilvie's horse was kept in the stable of Cruick- 
shanks — and Master Campbell and his horde were 
also taken in by Cruickslianks. 



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Penitentiary at Loretto for three years. 
Coming to London soon after the Restora- 
tion, he was aggregated to the English 
province, by F. Edward Courtenay, who 
expresses himself, in a letter dated 9 June, 
1663, as highly satisfied with his peaceful 
and docile character. He died shortly 
after, viz. 7 August, 1663. His Latin en- 
comium of St. Ignatius was printed at Rome, 
in8vo. 1661. 

Mortimer, George.— This useful and 
highly esteemed Father, after suffering 
imprisonment at Glasgow, was at length 
released in 1622, through the interest of the 
Spanish Ambassador at the court of London. 
To the regret of his numerous friends, he 
died on the 1st October, 1626, and had the 
comforts of being assisted by his reverend 
brethren FF. Patrick Stickley and William 
Lesley. The latter writes of him ou the 22 
June, 1627, '* magno sane multorum 
dolor e moituus est ; et swi memoriam 
propter singularem animarum zelum pos- 
teris reliquil." 

JMoBTiMER, Robert, reached the Scotch 
mission early in 1631. 

MuRDOCK, William, was at Pont-a 
Mousson in 1611. He had passed on the 
mission by the name of Gilbert. F. Drews, 
in his Fasti, says, that he did and suffered 
much for the Catholic Faith in Scotland, and 
that he died at Pont-a-Mousson, 21 August, 
1616. 

NiMMo Andrew, born 4 Nov. 1674 : en- 
tered the Society at Genoa 8 Dec. J 699. 
Ten years later was employed in the Mila- 
nese Province. 

NoHMANSoN, William, was studying his 
second year of Divinity at Douay, in 1748. 

Ogilvie, Alexander.— After quitiing 
Douay in 1621, he repaired to Nanci the en- 
suing year to commence his Noviceship. 
For about thirty years he diligently culti- 
vated the vineyard, and was hailed as the 
father of the poor. During the rage for the 
Covenant he retired to Ireland with the Earl 
of Straban,where he endured extreme misery. 
Seized by, the persecutors, and lodged in 
jail at London ; at the end of some months, 
as no sufificient evidence could be produced 
of his being a priest, he was taken on board 
of a vessel and landed in France. But he 
soon returned to his dear flock in Scotland, 
who welcomed him like an angel of God. 
He died in 1663. F. Verdier, in his report 
of his visitation of Ireland, dated 24 June, 
3649, says he met F, Alexander Ogilvie 
near Kilkenny, and that he had then recently 
come from prison where he had been de- 
tained three years and a half. 

Ogilvie, John, was educated at Douay. 
as already mentioned in the notice of F 
Curie, and was received into the Society by 
F.Ferdinand Alberi,* Provincial of Austria. 
1 meet him at Rouen, in the spring of 1612. 
Late in the year following, or early in 1614, 

• This Rev. Father died 30 October, 1617, a;t. 69 
Soc. 52. 



he succeeded, with F. MofFet, in reaching 
Scotland. In the midst of his apostolical 
labours, he was arrested at Glasgow, in 
Oct, 1614 ; one account says with eleven; 
another with twenty Catholics. We learn 
from F. Gordon's letter, dated Paris, 27 
January, 1615, that he was not appre- 
hended in the act of celebrating Mass, ( as 
had been reported at first), but was betrayed 
in the street itself of that city, by a person 
whom he had admitted incautiously to hear 
Mass, and that he with the eleven Catholics 
who had assisted at the holy sacrifice, were 
committed to gaol — that F. Ogilvie, by the 
King's order, was removed to Edinburgh 
to be examined by the Supreme Council, 
by whom is governed the realm of Scot- 
land, in the king's absence — that on 
being brought before the Council, and 
publicly accused by the false Bishops, he 
replied so accurately, learnedly, and cou- 
rageously, that he reduced them to silence, 
and exposed their ignorance, to the great 
edification aud admiration of both Ca- 
tholics and Heretics. F. Gordon was then 
persuaded that the prisoner would be re- 
leased, as well as F. Moffet, who had been 
taken about the same time, and safely 
lodged in the very same goal, though in 
another division. Nothing however could 
satisfy the vindictive virulence of these ene- 
mies of Orthodoxy, but the torture and blood 
of their innocent victim. In these en- 
lightened and tolerant days, it appears hard- 
ly credible, that the wanton barbarities 
which this prisoner had to endure, could 
have been directed and sanctioned by the 
constituted authorities. They are scarcely 
to be paralleled by the refined cruelty of the 
persecutors of the Christians during the 
three first centuries of the Church, or of the 
Indian Savages and Cannibals: and could 
only be surpassed by the Father's meekness, 
patience, and alacrity. We subjoin in proof 
of this, a translation of the letter which the 
Father wrote by stealth from Glasgow gaol, 
(to which he had been remanded by his in- 
famous judges), but 16 days before his exe« 
cution. Itis addressed to F. Ferdinand Al- 
beri, whom Cladius Aquaviva, the fifth 
General, S.J. had appointed Vicar-Gene- 
ral in his last illness. 

*' Rev. Father in Christ, 

"The Peace of Christ. 

" Your Reverence will easily judge of 
my present condition from the bearer of this. 
It is a capital offence to be caught writing, 
so that before the return of the turnkey, 
I must needs hurry. Your Reverence when 
Provincial of Austria, first received me into 
the Society : on that account I may recom- 
mend my children with the greater confi- 
dence to your Reverence as to their grand- 
father. Should therefore Mr. John Main re- 
quire your services, I beg that he may find in 
ray dearest Ferdinand, the Father of genu- 
ine charity, some share of the kindness which 
1 have experienced. I have written to the 



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bearer of this. Your Reverence may ask, 
if you please, what he has done with the 
particulars that may serve for our Annals. 
J earnestlv recommend myself to your 
Reverence's prayers. Dated from ray pri- 
son at Glasgow, where 1 lie under the load 
of two hundred weight of irons, looking for 
death, unless I accept the proffered favour 
of the King; that is, a rich preferment and 
another religion. Once I have sustained 
the torture of being kept without sleep for 
nuie nights and eight days : now I expect 
two other tortures, and then death. I am 
still awake this 22 February, 1615 — Your 
Reverence's servant in Christ, 

JoANES Ogelbeius, Soc. Jesu." 

F. Gordon, in his letter from Paris, 21 
April, 1615, says that it was in virtue of an 
express order of King James, that the pri- 
soner was removed back to Glasgow for 
execution. He went joyfully to the gallows 
as to a feast, on 10 March, 1615, set. 34. 
lis was not quartered, but after hanging 
until be was dead, the body was laid in a 
coffin, and interred in the common ground 
allotted to executed malefactors. '■''Primus 
ille est ex nostra Societate qui in Scotia 
tali honore dignatus est.'* says his above 
mentioned friend and superior F. Gordon. 
See his Life, by N. Matthias Tanner ; also 
Southwell's Bibliotheca, p. 483. 

In the British Museum is a 4)to. book, 
printed at Edindurgh, A. D. 1615, intitled, 

A true Relation of the Proceedings 
against John Ogilvie, a Jesuit, executed 
at Glasgow." 

Ogilvie, John. — The following letter of 
Alexander Conne, to the General F. John 
Paul Oliva, and dated from Scotland, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1673, relates to F. Ogilvie. 

" Yesterday letters were brought me an- 
nouncing the death of F. John Ogilvie, who 
died at Wintoun, the seat of the noble 
family, near Edinburgh, in a good old age, 
for he was more than 70 ; after innumerable 
labours sustained in the mission for more 
than thirty years, and with great fruit and 
gain of souls. He was for a long time a 
prisoner in London, under Cromwell, that 
tyrant and usurper of the kingdom. In 
Ireland he was almost reduced to starvation, 
whilst compelled during the period of the 
Scotch covenant, to lurk in the mountains 
and caverns. He did and suffered many 
things besides, as well when in a private 
capacity, as when Superior of the mission, 
which will be reported more at large in the 
next annual letters. F. Thomas Paterson 
attended him at his death, and administered 
to him the Sacraments of the Church, and 
bears testimony of his most religious end. 
The accustomed suffrages of the Society 
are therefore requested forhim, by your most 
humble servant in Christ, "Alex. Conne." 

Paterson John, This good lay-brother 
was rendering useful service as Taylor, &c. 
in the College of Douay in 1709, was then 

G 



69 years of age, and a religious of 45 year 
standing, 

Paterson, Thomas, was employed in the 
Scotch mission in 1673. I read in F. 
James Forbes' letter, 2 May, 1679, that 
when the popular phrenzy was excited 
against C atholics by Oates's daring perjury, 
F. Paterson, a man of eminent virtue and 
learning, ^'vir sane eximia virtute et doc- 
trina prceditus,'"' was apprehended and 
committed to prison. When examined by 
the Judges, the account he gave of himself 
and his principles wahso candid, so discreet 
and satisfactory, that all were persuaded of 
his innocence, and many Anti-Catholics felt 
regret, that one so unexceptionable, so 
moderate and gentle, should have fallen into 
their hands, How great was his equanimi- 
ty and Christian fortitude in bearing the loss 
of liberty, and the hardships of imprison- 
ment, may be inferred, says F. Forbes, " as 
well from his comforting letters breathing 
divine love and a desire of suffering, as from 
the fact, that when some of the constituted 
authorities insinuated to him the expediency 
of representing to them that confinement 
was prejudical to his health, to afford them 
a colourable pretence foi discharging him 
(and though he really had long suffered from 
the stone and a stomach complaint), yet no 
entreaties of his friends could induce him to 
apply for his liberty; declaring that now his 
constitution was improving, and his sleep 
more refreshing, than when he was his own 
master; and therefore that he would not 
conceal this blessing of his God. Although 
I knew well his spirit of implicit obedience, 
1 would not exercise any authority over him 
in this respect; but thought it more advisa- 
ble to permit him to follow the guidance of 
the Divine Spirit. Would to God, that I 
may walk in his footsteps, if it be my happy 
lot to suffer also for Jesus Christ." 

F. Paterson was soon discharged, and I 
meet him at the National College, Douay , 
in the following year, employed in the busi- 
ness of educating his countrymen. He is 
then described as " vir admodum prudens 
et aptissimus qui juventutem instituat.*' 
I find by his own letter of 5 May, 1693, that 
he was then actively engaged in the Scotch 
mission ; but 1 think he died before the close 
of the 17th century. 

Pepper, John, was born 10 January, 
1725 : studied in the Scotch College at Dou- 
ay, and entered the Novitiate at Tournay, 
28 September, 1747. where he deeply im- 
bibed the religious spirit ofhis holy founder, 
which so strongly animated his breast for the 
remainder of his life. From his own letter of 
the 2:st of January, 1803, I collect that this 
good Father " came to the Mission in the 
summer of 1759. In January, 1763, the 
Superior of the Mission sent me to France 
with a procuration for recovering its funds 
in that Country. On reaching London I 
received the Orders of the General F. Lau- 
rence Ricci, for my admission to the Pro- 



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fession of the Four Vows. This was per- 
fonned in the presence of the Reverend F. 
Deanet, Provincial of the English Jesuits, 
then in London, on 5 February, 1763. 
Thence I went to Paris, but staid there only 
a few weeks, and seeing nothing was to be 
done, was returning to Scotland, whenpass- 
ing by Douay, the Proviucial of the Walloon 
Province kept me there, to assist the Scots 
Rector in those troublesome times. The 
Hector sent me to Liege, to purchase a place 
for a new Establishment. With leave of 
the Bishop of Liege, and even at the request 
of the Magistrates of Dinant, I purchased a 
proper habitation and fitted it up for our 
uses. The Rector, with his little communi- 
ty, arrived there in April, 176Jj : we ob- 
tained from the Prince — Bishop, and the 
States, all the privileges and exemptions 
which the other Jesuit Colleges enjoyed in 
that Country : The General Ricci named ma 
first Rector'of that new College of Scots, 
and I held that office until 1772, when 1 was 
succeeded by F. George Maxwell. Ihe 
destructive Bull was signified to us at Dinant, 
in Sept. 1773. The following year, that I 
might be employed la functions proper to 
the Society, I returned to Scotland, and took 
charge of the congregations at Kirkconneli 
and Teregles, with the town of Du'nfries. 
For some years I was alone (F. Fraser, 
another professed Jesuit, was at Munshes in 
the neighbourhood) but in 1779, or 1780, a 
Secular clergyman was appointed to take 
charge of the numerous congregation of 
Kirkconneli ; since which time I have had 
the charge of the Catholics of Teregles and 
Dumfries only ; though occasionally I serve 
also the family of Kirkconneli, who are 
strong friends of the Society. Though 
ready to enter in my 79th year, I am able, 
thank God, to go about and fulfil my charge 
of Missionary." He continued to labour 
with exemplary zeal, until his pious death, 
at Teregles, on 24 March, ISIO. Ke was 
buried in the small Kirk adjoining, but there 
is no inscription to his memory. For some 
years before his death, God granted him 
the wish of his heart, to renew his vows in 
the Society of Jesus, which he had always 
loved with filial afi"ection. 

This truly good man, had a younger bro- 
ther, William, who had his education at 
Douay t and ever after retained the sincerest 
attachment to the Society. He became a 
Religious in the Holy Order of St. Benedict, 
I think, at Wurtzbourg, For many years 
he served the Scotch mission. He was at 
Berwick in January, 1819, and then 81 
years of age, Ob 17 Nov. 1824, 

RiDDocK, John, born 11 September, 
1700. At the age of 14 he went to Douay, 
and four years later joined the Society at 
Nanci. After studying Philosophy at Pont- 
a-Mousson, he was sent to Madrid to teach 
Humanities : and in the sequel his eminent 
talents in this department were put in requi- 
sition in several French Colleges, After he 



had gone through the course of Divinity 
Rheims,he was ordered to teach Philosophy 
for two years at Auxerre, Retuxniag to 
Scotland, 8 March, 1736, he made his Reli- 
gious Profession at Aberdeen, on Ascension 
Day, 27 May, that year. How long he 
served the mission I cannot ascertain ; but 
I meet him at Douay, in 174S. 

Robe, John. — The name of this Father 
occurs in a letter written in 1615, when he 
was at Antwerp, and when his Superior, F. 
Gordon, recommended him for the Scotch 
mission. Aptissimus ad hoc officium 
esset P. Joannes Robbus — in Missionibus 
tarn bene versatiis.'" For some years he 
cultivated that vineyard. I meet with him 
at Amsterdam, in January, 1631. I believe 
that he succeeded F. George Turnbull, as 
Supeiior of the Scotch College at Douay. 
He died there of fever, 13 March, 1633. 

Robs, Thomas. — He was employed in 
the Scotch mission, as his letter proves, 
1635 : three years later he had retired to 
London. In his letter from thence, 81 Oc- 
tober, 1639, he recommends his mother who 
had died on the 4th of that month, to the 
prayers of General Vitelleschi. From Lon- 
don he removed to Douay, where for a con- 
siderable time he was Rector of the Scotch 
College. He was still living there in Au- 
gust, 1673. 

Robertson, Alexander, came from 
Germany to serve the mission, late in 1635, 
during the hot persecution, and active search 
set on foot by Matthew Weems, Minister of 
Canongate, Edinburgh, that winter. On 
15 December, (O. S.) he had to quit his 
lodgings, to the imminent danger of his life, 
in a dreadful storm of snow, without being 
able to distinguish v/here he was or whither 
he was going. 

Robertson, John. — la F. John Mam- 
brecht's Report of the Scotch mission, dated 
7 April, 1628, he says, " This Father was 
stiindetained in Prison." He must have ob- 
tained his liberty and been apprehended 
again, for I find in F. Thomas Roby's let- 
ter, dated Douay, 9 March, 1644. "On the 
6th of this month arrived here from Scotland, 
F. John Robertson, cast into exile after 
eleven months imprisonment. This good 
Religious has comforted us much." From 
that time he does not appear. 

Russell, Alexander, was born in Scot- 
land, 13 February, 1669 : joined the Order 
in Bavaria, and made his profession in Scot- 
land, in the year 1739. The worthy old 
man died in the English College at Liege, 
14 September, 1742. 

Scott, John. — He was attached to the 
family of the Marquis ofHuntly, as I col- 
lect from F. Thomas Roby's letter of 2d 
January, 1636, (O.S.) 

Sempil, James, born on 1 May, 1638 : 
admitted at Madrid 11 May, 1656. After 
completing his studies and teaching Rheto- 
ric during eight years, was sent to the 
Scotch Mission, which he served for seven- 



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teen years : then returned to the Toledo 
Province. 

Semple, Hugh.— 1 meet with two Fa- 
thers of this name. The elder related to 
Colonel Seraple, (once Ambassador of Scot- 
land to the Court of Spain, and a singular 
benefactor to tlie Scotch College at Madrid, 
and to the Scotch mission), was aggregated 
to the Society at Toledo, in 1615. He 
passed for an eminent Linguist and profound 
Mathematician, His death occurred at 
Madrid, where he was Rector of the Scotch 
College, 29 September, 1654, set. 58. His 
treatise, in 12 books, De Mathemaiicis 
Disciplinis, was published at Anl-werp, 
1635. His Experientia Maihematica^ 8vo 
at Madrid, 1642. At his death he was en- 
gaged in preparing DicizowariM/n. Mathema- 
ticum. 

In an original letter of this good Jesuit, 
dated Madrid, 15 October, 1642, he recom- 
mends the appointment of a Bishop for 
Scotland. " For many years 1 have desired 
a Bishop for the Hebrides, to instruct and 
form the Priests, to settle disputes, to ad- 
rainister the Sacraments of Holy Orders and 
Confirmation, to outshine and govern the 
rest in the world, in life, morals, doctrine, 
and power, and with the same authority as 
the Bishops exercise in Ireland. The glory 
of God, the public good, the custom of the 
Churcb, and the propagation of the Faith 
demand tliis." 

His letter is in answ^er to a letter from 
the Propaganda dated from Rome, 30 Aug. 
1642, and which was subscribed Fran- 
cico Ingoli.'' 

"Epistolam pietate et prudentia plenam 
tertio Kalendas Sextilis datara alacntsr 
accepi, in qua aperto video, vir clarissime, 
libi curse etcordi esse ScotiiB instaurationem. 
Quo nomine tibi devinctus gratulor, candid- 
araque infracts araicitis tesseram, firmam- 
qiie mutui amoris catenam sine fraude aut 
fuco contextara, servare illEBsam sancte 
pollicecr. Requiris quid seniiara de dobus 
antidotis a te excogitatis contra pestilentem 
in Scotia grassantem hasresim. Utrumque 
raihi videtur quod de optimis Galenus 
' Efficax, facile, jucundura.' 

Episcopum enira in incuUis Hebridum 
Insulis, a nmltis annis desidero, qui Sacer- 
dotes instruat et iustituat, Catiiolicorum 
discordias componat, sacramenta Ordinis 
et Confirmationis administret, verbo, vita, 
moribus, doctrina el potestate aliis prae- 
luceat, et praesit eadem authorilate quam 
Episcopi in Irlandia exercent. Non ignoro 
multos privatis commodis ductos,aut nim- 
mura terrore seduclos sese opponere ; sud 
hoc suadet Dei gloria, bonum publicum, et 
Ecclesise consuetudo ac incrementura. 
Nullum huic muneri aptiorem existimo 
quara P.'lissionis Scotiae pro Familia Francis- 
cana Praefectum, in qu(» concurrunt omnia 
boni Pastoris signa. Huic et Sociis orna- 
inenta EccJesiastica et elcniosynas misi, et 
quotannis ejus inopiara sublevaro contendam. 



Quod ad Praefecturam raihi oblatara al- 
tinet, Laborem arabio, Honorem recuso. 
Malo enim gregarius Miles nuUo munere 
adstriclus Patriae et Ecclesiae deservire, 
privataque boni viri authoritate contentus, 
malo mihi Deo et Musis vivere, quam in 
alto positus vanitatis vento circumagi. 

Quis huic Prasfecturae aptus sit, designabit 
P. Generalis Societatis Jesu, contra cujus 
praescriptum nihil tentabo. Invidorum 
calamos et caluranias contemno : haereticos 
hostes parvi facio: sed susceptae vilee ra- 
tionem violare nefas puto. Interim si in 
Hispania quippiara possum hoc tibi tuisque 
irapendam. 

" Hugo Semplius." 
Matriti, 15 Oct. 1642. 

The Junior Father was also Rector of the 
Scotch College at Madrid, and probably 
died in that city. 

Seton, Alexander. — I meet v/ith two 
Fathers of this name. The first v/as in 
Germany, II March, 1612, whenF. Gordon 
recommended to the General C. Aquaviva to 
recal him, aud send him to cultivate the 
mission of Scotland *' qui omnium aptissi- 
mus ad hane Missionem videtur." 

Of the second I can glean only that he 
was sometimes called Ross, and that he en- 
tered the Society at Tournay, 3 Oct. 1687, 
aged 20, that he was living in Aber- 
deenshire 1710, and that he must have 
attained a great age at his death : for 29 
Dec. 1749 he admitted to the first Commu- 
nion Geo. Hay, aOerwards the learned J}i\ 
Kay, Bp. of Daulis and V. A. of the Low 
lands of Scotland, This illustrious Prelate 
died 15 Oct, 1811 est. 83. 

Setox, James, of a nob'e family, I 
Sud by F. John Mambrecht's letter, 7i\prii, 
1628, that he v/as then profitably am ployed 
in the North of Scotland. In the beginning 
of his rainlslenal career, his zeal led him too 
mucli among his family connexions : this 
aroused the spleen and vengeance of the 
false Bishops, who served him with citations, 
and afterwards proceeded to excommunicate 
him. This obliged him to adopt more cau- 
tion and secresy. He had ihen in hand, 
Baron Ogilvie, the head of his Clan, who 
had fixed the day to be reconciled to the 
Catholic Church. After some time he was 
ordered to Germany ; but hearing of the dis- 
consolate stale of his aged mother, who 
wished to see him before she died, he applied 
for permission to return to Scotland. I 
meet him there for several years alter; but 
the intense heat of the persecution and tlio 
virulence of the Kirk Ministers, compelled 
him to sail for Norway. Where and when 
he ended his days I cannot discover. 

Seton, John. — There wore three Fathers 
of this name. The first is mentioned in a 
letter of F. .lohn Lesley to the General, 30 
Sept. 1633, in which he relates the distress 
of the Scotch mission, by the recent loss of 
their kinil benefactor, Colonel Scmple, in 



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Spain, and adds, ^'res Hispaniensis summa 
diligentia P.Joanni Seton, commendanda 
ut omni lahore et studio soliti auxUii 
rorogatio impetretnr." 

The second was forraed in the Tholouse 
province, and became a very superior mis- 
sionary. In a letter of F. W. Aloysius 
Lesley, of December, 1686, I read, " F. 
Seton has gone into the county of Perth 
to open a new mission." When the Revo- 
lution burst out, he was one of its earliest 
victims. In the Spring of J 693, the 
imprisoned Priests were allowed to regain 
their liberty, provided they agreed to depart 
the reahn ; he refused to accept the condition, 
and at length was discharged by Proclama- 
tion. This apostolic man died at Edinburgh 
in the beginning of 1 694-. Before he went to 
Perthshire, he had for upwards of twenty 
years planted and watered the vineyard in 
Galloway, and by his engaging sweetness 
and patient zeal, brought back more than 
five hundred strayed souls to the Church, 
and trained them in the way of piety and 
devotion. But what could not this man of 
God effect, whose life was a perpetual 
prayer ? 

The third Father, great grandson of Geo. 
Srd Earl of Winton, and grandson of Sir 
John Seton, of Garleton. was boin 9 No- 
vember, 1695 : entered the Society at Ma- 
drid 20 September, 1716, came to the Scotch 
mission in 1725, and ten years later 
made his solemn vows at Aberdeen. He 
died at Edinburgh, 16 July, 1757. 

Smith, John. — I meet with him in the 
North of Scotland, in the winter of 1G41. 
On 9 March, 1644, F. Thomas Eobe an- 
nounces that he had been the happy instru- 
ment employed by God, to convert the 
Baron of Petfodels, the chief of the Menzie 
family. He occurs again in October, 
1653 ; after which time I lose sight of him. 

Spreule, In a letter dated Edin- 

burgh, 28 July, 1685, F. William A. Lesley 
informs the General Charles de Noyelle, that 
in conformity to his orders, F, Spreule. 
*' senectvte confectus,'^ was preparing to 
return to Belgium. Most probably he died 
at Tournay. 

Stevens, John. — F. John Mambrecht, 
in his letter of 7 April, 1628, reports of this 
zealous Father, that during the late 
winter, he had escorted ten youths to the 
seminary at Douay — that he had then re- 
turned to Aberdeen, " ubi satis fiequens 
Missio et Societati addictissima." It 
is painful to repeat the incapability of dis- 
covering more particulars. 

Stickley, Patrick. — This apostolic man 
was alarmingly ill in the autumn of 1622. F. 
William Lesley, his Superior, in a Letter 
4 February following, says of him, that 
though much recovered, yet his constitution 
was greatly debilitated, but he could not 
provide himself a substitute or assistant ; 
hut had himself rendered occassional help. 
I find him living with the Marquis of 



Huntly in 1628, and rendering valuable 
services in his excursions in the neighbour- 
hood. Through his means a happy reconci- 
liation was effected between the hostile 
Clans of Gordon and Errol, and the Mar- 
quis' son married the Earl's daughter. 
This restoration of friendship between the 
two families was so much talked of, that 
even the Bishop in a sermon at Aberdeen, 
publicly asserted, that what the King and 
Council and Kirk could not accomplish, had 
been brought about by a single Jesuit. 

Strahan, Alexander, was the eldest 
son of Sir Alexander S. (the sixth baronet 
of Nova Scotia), by his wife Jane Bremner, 
of Attenbury ; and on the death of his father 
succeeded to the title, with its slender income. 

This worthy Jesuit had travelled much, 
and was universally esteemed and respected 
for his solid and unaiFected virtues, and 
most amiable manners. He retired in his 
old age, to the English college at Liege, 
where he died 3 January, 1793. The title 
descended to his only brother Robert, a 
most devout layman, and a gentleman of un« 
blemished honour and integrity. He died 
at Exeter, 3 April, 1826, set. 89, and was 
buried at St. Nicholas' Chapel, in that city. 
At his death, the title of Baronet of Nova 
Scotia, granted by King Charles 1. on 28 
May, 1625, became extinct. 

Strahan, Francis Xavier. — He was 
Rector of the National College at Douay. 
in 1734. I have read his letter addressed to 
the Assistant of Germany at Rome, dated 

1 April that year, on the business of the 
College, and it proves that he was well ac- 
quainted with the history of its foundation. 

Strahan, Hugh, born 4 May, 1672; 
joined the Order at Tournay, 4 June, 1693, 
but finished his Noviceship at Lantsberg. 
In November, 1701, he returned a mission- 
ary to his native country. At Lady Day, 
1710, he took the solemn vows of the Soci- 
ety. In a letter of 1712, I read, " Dominus 
Ramsey alias Strachan in regione Brao- 
marr, quce ejus est Stalio, plures Ducen- 
tis vercB Fidei cultcres reddidit.'^ He died 
at Douay, 23 March. 1745. 

Stuart, James, was born in Scotland 
30 March, 1711 ; was admitted into die Or- 
der 28 September, 1728, and was professed 

2 February, 1746. After teaching Huraani- 
ties, Philosophy, and Theology, in the 
French Provinces of the Society, he was 
employed to profess scholastic and moral 
Divinity at the English College at Liege, 
where he departed this life, 18 March. 1784. 

Stuart, William, alias Sharp. — This 
native of Scotland became a Member of the 
Society in Italy, and for many years filled 
several of its offices with credit in that 
country, and at Douay. At length he at- 
tached himself to the English province, and 
lived as Chaplain to a noble family in York- 
shire, until his death, 21 May. 1677. " Fir 
in Deum pius, atque omnibus quibus notus 
erat, percharus'' An. Lilt. 



39 



Q. Was F, Win. Stuart, the author of 
Presbyterie's Trial), or the Occasion and 
Motives of Conversion to the Catholique 
Faith of a Person of Quality in Scotland, 
to which is subjoyned a little Touchstone of 
the Presbyterian Covenant. 12rao, Paris, 
1657. pp. 241 . ?" At the end of the Preface 
are the letters F.W.S. 

Trottar. John, was bora at Edinburgh 
18 August, 1704, and on the same day was 
baptized by F. Durham. He entered the 
Society at Madrid, 19 September, 1722. 
In the beginning of October, 1727, he de- 
fended the Philosophical Theses. After 
finishing a course of Theology, he was or- 
dered to prepare for the Scotch mission; 
but owing to bad health, he did not reach 
his destination until 29 May, 1733. He 
made the Profession of the four vows of his 
Order at Aberdeen, 15 May, 1740; after 
which the clue of his history slips from me. 

TuRNBULL, George, born of Catholic 
parents in the diocese of St. Andrews, 
from early youth he manifested a holy im- 
patience to embrace the pious Institute of 
the Society, and how he imbibed the spirit 
of its saintly founder, appeared in his sub- 
sequent life and manners. Zealous for the 
greater honour and glory of God, mild to 
his neighbour, severe to himself, industrious 
and learned, for upwards of thirty years he 
rendered important services to the Colleges 
of Pont-a-Mousson and Douay. I read in 
F. Gordon's letter of 12 January, 1615, 
*• P. Turnebulus strenue et utiliter labor- 
at Duaci, omnibus admodum gratus" 
He had then the charge of the National 
Seminary, as F. Wm. Creitton mentions in 
his letter of 14 July that year. In a letter 
of F. William Lesley, written from Scotland, 
1 September, 1630, he says, *' An heretical 
Minister here, who has been an obstacle to 
several conversions, has written a book on 
the formal object of Faith, and had boasted 
that none of our Society could answer it. 
I sent it to F. George Turnbull, who has ad- 
mirably refuted it. This answer is much 
approved of by our friends in this country ; 
but as the minister perseveres in his folly, I 
beg your reverend paternity to exhort him 
to continue to refute similar treatises, which 
I may occasionally send him, for the defence 
of the Catholic faith, the salvation of souls, 
and the honour of our Society." F. T. 
closed his usetul life by a most Christian 
death at Kheims, 11 May, 1633, set. 64, 
Rel. 42. Prof. 23. He published " Imagi. 
narii Circuli quadratura Catholica" 8vo. 
Rheims, 1628, "In sacroe Scholos Calum- 
niatorem." 8vo. Rheims, 1632. He left in 
M.S. *' Commentary on Universal Thco^ 
logy:* 

Tyrie, James, of a good Scotch family. 
Joining the Society at Rome, 19 August, 
1563, he eventually became one of its most 
distinguished ornaments. Aftei filling the 
chairs of Philosophy and Divinity at Paris, 
he returned to Rome, and was elected As- 



sistant for the French Province at the fifth 
general Congregation of the Society, No- 
vember, 1593. But he was prematurely 
taken away by a short illness 20 March 
1597, set. 54. Under the name of George 
Thompson, he wrote a brief but learned trea- 
tise "De Antiquitate EcclesicB Scotits." 
which Possevinus inserted in lib. xvi. Bibli- 
othecce. This Treatise exasperated that 
ruffian bullv John Knox, to publish an 
answer. F^ Tyrie's rejoinder, " The Refu- 
tation of ane Answer made be Schir Johne 
Knox, to ane Letter send be James Tyrie to 
his umquhyle Brother," Paris, 1573, is 
pronounced by Bishop Lesley to be most 
argumentative and victorious. A copy was 
sold at Heber's sale 10 April, 1835, No. 
3616. 

Valens, Robert. — We learn from his 
own letter dated from Edinburgh, 16 June, 
1629, that he had then been in the mission 
about five years. His residence in that 
city, though most dangerous to himself, 
was to the Catholics, especially the gentry 
detained in custody, a source of consolation. 
With the greatest difficulty be had succeed- 
ed in escaping the pursuit of his enemies. 
The city being divided into districts ; twenty 
Puritan zealots had been selected to hunt 
out Catholics and search their houses and 
lodgings. The persecution at length forced 
hira to seek refuge in England. I find in F. 
James Mambrecht's letter 3 April, 1644, 
that this reverend Friend had been appre- 
hended some time before in London. Pro- 
bably his sentence was perpetual banish- 
ment. 

Urquhart, Adam, born 6 February, 
1679 ; enlisted at Paris in the Society in his 
16th year ; was engaged at the age of 30 in 
teaching Scholastic Divinity, 

Urquhart, Charles, born 1st of Au- 
gust, 1666: entered the Society at Paris, 7 
September, 168S, and made his solemn Pro- 
fession 1703. 

Urquhart, Lewis, was living in the 
Province of Tholouse in 1709. 

Weems, Patrick, born 29 June, 1671 
entered the Society 15 January, 1698: 
eleven years later was employed in the 
Province of Bohemia. 

West, Thomas. is real name was 
Daniel, but occasionally he passed by the 
name of Watson. He was born 1 January, 
1720. For some time he was a traveller in 
trade ; at the age of 31 was a candidate for 
admission into the Society : and so great 
were his merits and proficiency, that his Su- 
periors judged him fit to be enrolled amongst 
the Professed Fathers 2 February, 1769. 
For a short time he served Holywell mission 
— thence removed to Ulverstone^ and finally 
settled at Sizergh, where he died 10 June, 
1779. He was known by his " Guide to 
the Lakes of Cumberland," also by " The 
Antiquities of Furness, or an Account of 
the Royal Abbey of St. Mary of Night- 
shade, near Dalton, in Furness." 4to. Lou- 



H 



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don, 1774, p. 288, preceded by a descriptive 
view of Fnrness," p. 56, and closed with a 
weighty appendix. An ecclesiastical an- 
tiquary having access to the stores of origi- 
nal documents in the possession of his friend 
and patron (Right Hon. Lord George Caven- 
dish) should have embodied a larger fund of 
information. 

Reverend John Whitaker, the l«arned 
Historian of Manchester (ob. 30 Oct. 1808, 
set. 73), in Vol ii. of the ancient Cathedral 
of Cornwall p. 357, who was acquainted 
with T. West, had recommended to him to 
expatiate on monastic manners and habits in 
his Antiquities of Furness, but adds '« I was 
too late in my recommendation to Mr. West, 



as he was then in London, attending the 
Press for Publication." 



We say nothing of the Rev. Archibald 
Bower^ born at Dundee, 17 January, 1686, 
entered the Societyat Rome, 10 Dec. 1706, 
and who died 3 September, 1766. — 
All lovers of truth and honesty regarded 
him, living and dying, as an unprincipled 
impostor, and a disgrace to any religious 
denomination. He was buried in Mary bone 
Cemetry : and his lying epitaph may be 
seen p. 264 Lyson's Environs, &c. Vol. III. 
*'Initium super bicB hominis apostare a 
Deo : quoniam ab eo qui fecit illunij rf- 
cessit cor ejus," Eccl. x. 



CollectionSy Illustrating the Biography^ Sfc, 



ENGLISH MEMBERS, S. J, 

***** Fungar vice Cotis acutum 
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi. 



Horace de Arte Poetical 



*Abeel Vandkn, James, was admitted 
at Wattent into the Society of Jesus 7 
September, 1671, and died in the English 
College at St. Omer, 10 February, 1698, 
aet. 49. 

•Abeel, Vandel, Baldwin, died at St. 
Omer, 13 October, 1679, set. 41, Rel. 17. 
The Annual Letters of the English Province 
describe him as " Vir pius et humilis." 

*AcLAND, Anthony. — He appears to have 
been a native of Devonshire. The first 
time that I meet with him is in the year 
1623, at Rome, lie was Socius to F. Wil- 
liam Risdon, the Procurator there. In a 
Letter of F. Edward Knott, bearing date 
15 January, 1627, I discover that this use- 
ful Lay-brother had died in that City late 
in the preceding year. J 

Acton, Thomas. — His real name was 
Dupuy. He joined the Society 25 Novem- 
ber, 1684. Seventeen years later he was 
residing at Liege College, in the capacity 
of Prefect of Spirit. In 1704, I find him a 
Missionary in the College of St. Thomas of 
Canterbury. He died at St. Oraer's 21 
March, 1721, set. 59. 

Adams, James, began his Novlceship at 
Watten, 7 September, 1766. In the sequel 
he taught a course of Humanities with dis- 

* Names marked with an (♦) were either Scholas- 
tics or Lay brothers in the Order. 

t The English Novitiate of the Society was fixed at 
Waiten, about two leagues from St Omer, In 1622. 
and continued there until the Suppression of the So- 
ciety, 151 years later. 

JWe may observe once for all, that the Catholics 
in the British dominions continued to follow the old 
stile, instead of the Gregorian Calendar, until the 
British Parliament enacted the adoption of this New 
Stile, to commence on 1st of January. 1752, In p.96, 
of F. Edward Knott's Treatise " Charity Mistalsen." 
printed in 1630 he says, We the Romane Catholics 
in this kingdome, do rather governe ourselves at 
this day by the less perfect Kalendar. which now is 
used in this place than by the other, which is both 
the better (even by the judgment of learned Protes- 
tants) and is authorised by the Catholicke Church 
abroad e.letting the world see thereby how willingly 
we can accomodate them in all things which be- 
long not merely to religion. 



tinguished credit at St. Omer. After pur- 
suing the quiet tenor of his way as a 
Missionary for many years, he retired to 
Dublin in the early part of August, 1802, 
and died there 7 December, the same year, 
aged 65. He was the author of the follow- 
ing woiks: — 

1. Early Rules for taking a Likeness. 
With plates, (from the French of Bonami- 
ci), 1 Vol. 8vo. pp. 59, London, 1792. 

2. Oratio Academica, Anglice et Latine 
conscripta. Octavo, pp. 21, London, 1793. 

3. Euphonologia Linguce Anglicanee, 
Latine' et Gallice Scripta. (Inscribed to 
the Royal Societies of Berlin, and London). 
1 Vol. 8vo. pp. 190, London, 1794. The 
author was honoured with the thanks of the 
Royal Society, London. 

4. Rule Britannia, or the Flattery of 
Free Subjects paraphrased and expounded 
To which is added, An Academical Dis- 
course in English and Latin, 8vo. pp. 60, 
London, 1768. 

5. A Sermon preached at the Catholic 
Chapel of St. Patrick, Sutton Street, 
Soho Square, on Wednesday, the 7th of 
March, the Day of Public Fast, 8vo. pp. 
34, London, 1798. 

6. The Pronunciation of the English 
Language Vindicated. 1 vol. 8vo. Edin- 
burgh, 1799. 

Q. Was F. Adams the author of the 
following works mentioned in the catalogue 
of the British Museum: — 

1. The Elements of Reading. l2mo. 
London, 1791, 

2. The Elements of Useful Knowledge. 
12mo. London, 1793. 

3. A View of Universal History. 3 
vols- Svo. London, 1795. 

From a letter of his friend John Moir, 
dated Edinburgh, 11 Nov. 1801, as well as 
its answer, it is obvious that the Father had 
it in contemplation to publish his Tour 
through the Hebrides. He had been much 



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disgusted with the Tour of that " ungrateful 
depreciating cynic, Dr. Johnson." 

Addison, Thomas. — All that I can 
gather of him is, that he joined the Society 
at the age of 34, on 1 July, 1668, and that 
he died in England 23 March, 1685. 

Agazzari, Alphonsus. Though a na- 
tive of Sienna, this Father is connected 
with our country, by having been Rector of 
the English College at Rome. Pope Gre- 
gory XIII. that lover and benefactor of the 
English Nation, having thought proper to 
issue his command to F. EverardMercurian, 
the 4th General of the Society, " to take 
the whole charge of the English Seminary 
in Rome upon him in all respects, as he had 
the charge of the German College there," 
F. Agazzari was appointed the first Rector, 
and was admirably qualified for the oSice by 
learning, piety, prudence, and special re- 
gard for the English people. During his 
government, the College flourished in science, 
peace, concord, and property ; and about 
one hundred Priests went forth to the Eng- 
lish mission. Dr. Allen, the patriarch of 
the English Clergy, esteemed and loved 
like a brother F. Agazzari, as his numerous 
letters abundantly show. This truly good 
Father died at Rome, 30 March, 1602, set. 
56, Soc. 35. See Dodd's Church History, 
Tol. ii,, p. 134. Move's History, Prov. 
Angl., pp. 57, and 138. 

Alacampe, Edward, was admitted into 
the English College at Rome in 1605, to 
study Philosophy. Three years later he 
enrolled himself among the children of St. 
Ignatius. I meet with him at the new Col- 
lege in Leige, during the winter of 1614. 
For several subsequent years he filled the 
oflBce of Procurator at Rome ; but died in 
the House of Probation at Ghent, 6 Feb. 
J 646, fflt, 65, Soc. 38. " Virtute et doc- 
trina insignis. 

Alanson. John. — I think that his real 
name was Armstrong, \a.nd that he was a 
native of Northumberland. He was admit- 
ted into the Order in 1621, and to the Pro- 
fession of the four Vows 6 May, 1632. In 
a letter of F. Ireland, dated from St. Omer, 
11 March, 1676, I read F. John Allison is 
come to be Prefect of the Sodality." The 
venerable old man died in England, 10 Feb. 
1684. 

The name of F. William Alanson, 
occurs in the Necrology ; but the date of 
his death remains unknown. 

Albin, Robert, of Lancashire. — He died 
at Tongres, near Liege, in attending the 
Scotch Soldiers infected with the Plague, 8 
December, 1667, set. 37, Rel. 16. 

Alcock, John. — His real name was 
Gage. After studying Humanities at St. 
Omer's College, he was conducted by his 
master, F. Henry Pitts, to the Novitiate, 
with six other Rhetoricians, on 7 Septem- 
ber, 1670, and at the end of two years, 
made the vows of a Scholastic of the 
Society. He died whilst serving the Eng.* 



lish mission, on 29 December, 1704, set. 52. 

Aldred, Robert. His name does not 
appear in the Necrogoly ; but he entered 
the Order in 1697. In due time he was 
sent to the English vineyard, and his station 
was Little Crosby, near Liverpool, where 
he built the Priest's house in 1719. There 
he died, 23 February, 1728, aged 54. 

Aldrington, (alias Wakeman) Tho- 
mas, died in England, 29 April, 1649. 

Alford, (Griffith), Michael, of Lon- 
don, entered the Novitiate of St, John's 
House, Louvain, 29 February, 1607, and 
made his simple vows 1 March, 1609. At 
Seville he studied a course of Philosophy 5 
thence proceeded to Louvain to commence 
Theology. On his promotion to the priest- 
hood he was ordered to Naples, where he 
administered his charitable and valuable 
services to the English Gentry, Merchants 
and Sailors, who frequented that city ; thence 
removed to Rome ; from the year 1615 to 
1620 he filled the office of Penitentiary to 
the general satisfaction. After passing 
through other offices of the Society at Ghent,* 
and at Liege with equal ability and credit, 
he was allowed to go 10 the English mission. 
Landing at Dover he was placed under ar- 
rest. What led to suspicion of his charac- 
ter was the discovery of a copy of" The 
Imitation of Christ," on his person. A 
minister of the Law .church was called in for 
his opinion : after passing over the co»tents 
he gravely pronounced that the Title Page 
was more objectionable than the Text — that 
the author, Thomas a Kempis, was a Regu- 
lar Canon — that the Canons and Canonists 
were proscribed by English Statute, and 
that the Bearer ought not to be hastily dis- 
charged. In fact, the Prisoner was sus- 
pected to be the Right Rev. Dr. Richard 
Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, and Vicar A- 
postolic, for whose apprehension the Eng- 
lish Government had offered a reward of 
^200. by the several Proclamations of 11 
December, 1628, and 24 March, 1629. The 
consequence was that F. Alford was con- 
ducted to London ; but as his person in no 
respect corresponded with the Bishop's des- 
cription, he was restored to liberty, through 
the mediation of Henrietta Maria, consort 
of King Charles I. 

The county of Leicester now became the 
principal theatre of his missionary labours, 
and Holt I suppose to have been his Resi- 
dence. Always thoughtful and industrious, 
he carefully devoted what leisure he could 
command from the duties of his ministry, to 
Ecclesiastical and Historical studies ; and 
when we take into consideration the difficul- 
ties of getting access to authorities and evi - 
dences — the personal dangers to which he 
was daily and nightly exposed, and the 
comparative dimness of Critical light at that 
period, we are perfectly astonished at the 

• According to Sander's Flandria Ulustrata, p. 
131 ,F. Alford became the first Rector of the En- 
glish House of Probation at Ghent, about August 
1621. 



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extent and the success of his researches. 
The first work that he published was " Tne 
Admirable life of St. Winefride,'' with a 
frontispiece, 8vo. 1635, and which, it seems 
was re-edited the same year, by F. John 
Falconer, (not Flood, as Mr. Dodd suppo- 
sed, p. 310, vol. iii. Church History). See 
Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, Nov. 3. 

Next followed, — Britannia Illustrata, 
sive Lucii, Helence Constantini P atria el 
Fides. Authore Miehaele Alfordo Societ. 
Jesu. Uo. Antverpice typis Ckrhtophori 
Jegers, Anno 1641. 

This excessively rare book on British 
History seems to have escaped the notice of 
Bibliographers. It consists of xxiv. pages 
of preliminary matter,* the frontispiece 
{Phs. Fruitiers delm. et Jac Necfs sculp- 
A'if), being counted as i. and ii. Then fol- 
lows the body of the book, pages 1 to 352, 
and an Appendix, ending at page 424. 
The volume concludes with an Errata and 
the Privileges, filling two pages more. 

To put the finishing stroke to his Her- 
culean undertaking, Annates Ecelesias- 
tici et Civiles Britannorum, Saxonum et 
Anglorum," he obtained leave to quit En- 
gland in the spring of 1652. Soon after his 
arrival at St, Oraers, he was attacked with 
fever, which preyed upon his constitution, 
and terminated his valuable life 11 August 
that year, agod 65. His great work was 
published at Liege, eleven years later 
(1663) in 4 vols, folio. The first contains 
642 pages ; the second vol.f 693 pages ; the 
third 580 pages ; besides a chronological in- 
dex of 136 pages ; and the fourth, which is 
supplementary, continuing the History 
down to the year 1189, is divided into two 
parts, the first containing 328, the second 
344 pages. It is remarkable that the title 
page varies in each of these volumes. 
Bishop Fleetwood has pronounced this col- 
lection 10 be a very valuable treasure of the 
ecclesiastical history of our nation. The 
learned and truly venerable F. Serenus 
Cressy,% in his Preface to his Church His- 

* Title engraved, 2 pp. Dedication to Charles 
Prince of Wales, 4 pp. Index Capitum, 4 pp. Sy- 
nopsis Libri, 14 pp. 

t At the end of this second vol, i s an Address to 
the Reader, wri'ten when the Author lay concealetl 
during the Civil Wars, and accounting for the unfi- 
nished state of the work. The two last lines fur- 
nish the Ciironogram 1645, viz. 
Hos ego dcpinxi libros quando Anglia Bella 
Civili cunclos terruit, et lalui. 

X This Ornament of Religion and Luminary of 
the Benedictine Order died 10 August, 1674. set. 
80. His life may be seen in the third volume of 
Dodd's Church History ; but in the list of h.s 
works, pp 308-9, is ommitted an 8vo. pp. 190, enti- 
tled " Arbor ViTtulum ; or an exact Model, in the 
which are represented all manner of Virtues, ^-i:." 
Collected out of Sdrnanticensis, by Br. Serenus 
Cressrj, forthcuscof Dame Mary Cary, at Cum- 
bray, 7 Oct. 1649. The original is at Vgbroolco. 
In tlie beginning of the Catholique Apoloyy, (ord 
edition, 1674), the author, speakinjj of the°se'verity 
which a person of Honour had animadverted on 
Mr. Cressy's Fanaticism 'aiia'ically impu/cd to the 
Catholic Church," observes, " Certainly, if you 



tory of Brittany, printed in 1688, with a 
candour which charactizes a great and gene- 
rous mind, enlarges on his many obligations 
to the profound researches of F. Alford. 
He repeats that the Annates Ecclesias- 
tici " was the principal foundation from 
which he derived his History ; that F. Al- 
ford possessed in an eminent degree the two 
endowments which constitute an excellent 
historian— learning and fidelity ; that to his 
unwearied labours all Catholics, yea, the 
whole nation are indebted. He styles him 
a principal ornament of the age, and regrets 
his incapacity to raise a monumental pyra- 
mid suitable to his merits. Speaking then 
of his piety, he says thus : 

" Gi eat abilities and learning wiU per- 
petuate one's memory on earth ; but, if un- 
accompanied with Piety, it will be apt to 
swell the person with Pride, which can 
find no place in Heaven. Tlie venerable 
Father knew this well ; and therefore made 
it his chief care and study to adorn his soul 
with Piety and Virtue, As he carried the 
name, so did he also a tender devotion to 
the glorious Archangel St. Michael, of 
which be left a memorial divers years be- 
fore his death, by a devout Prayer and lec- 
ture devised by him, which he caused to be 
cut at Antwerp, and dispersed to the honor 
of the Saint, not only as his Patron, but 
also the Standard-bearer of the Church a- 
gainst rebellious heresy ; which he endea- 
voured also to quell by word and writing. 
For the space of twenty-two years before 
his death a part of his daily devotion was, 
to lodge his soul every day in one of the sa- 
cred wounds of our Blessed Saviour. And 
his infirmity increasing upon him, he de- 
sired four days before his death, to be put 
in mind if he chanced to forget his pious 
Exercise. The last day lodged him in the 
Heart : there he died in the House of Life, 
to live for ever in Heaven, and there to 
enjoy the happy reward of all his pious 
labours." 

F. Henry More, in p. 395, Hist. Prov. 
Angl. S. J. has preserved a Distich of F. 
Alfbrd's Poem on the sacred wounds of 
Jesus Christ." 

0 anima ingredere in centrum, pia vis- 
cera Christ i 
0 sacrum pectus ! da mihi Amore mori. 



knew that gentleman, you would, instead of a 
?Fa«;), have rather called him a Bee, which gives 
honey, and never slings unless exasperated, and in 
its own defence." And again, p. 592, after stating 
that conscience, and not interest, animated the 
steiling Catholic, adds, " Of this Mr. Cressy is a 
worthy Kxample, who might now in all piohability 
been one of the greatest Clergymen in the Mation. 
Nay, had he had never so potent Knemies, they 
could not have hindered him, upon his bare goiiuj to 
Church, from the enjoyment of his former ami-le 
dignities, and the vast Fines lately raised out of 
them, liut a little cell with an upright heart was 
more dear to him than all those alluremenls: nor has 
he since ceased by his prayers, mortifications, and 
labours, to shew him.sclf ( 1 ike the rest o f )iis pious 
Brethieii) a true son of that Holy Order, to which 
our Nation is so much engaged. 



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Alfokd, Robert, of Surrey, by the name 
of Griffiths, was admitted an Alumnus 
of the Englisli College ai Rorao, After 
joiaing the Society, he was in due time 
sent to the English mission, which he served 
for thirty three years, exhibiting through- 
out an edifying example of charity to the 
sick and indigent. He died in the College 
of the holy Apostles, S July, 1640, set. 58. 

Alford, William. — Ail that lean learn 
of this Father is, that he died 8 January, 
1675. 

Allan, William, born 9 February, 
1733. At the age of 17, Piety led him to 
the Novitiate at Watten. I meet with him 
at Rome, 1 November, 1786. For many 
years he resided at Isleworth, where he 
ended his life 26 January. 1814, and was 
buried in Hammersmith churchyard. 

*Allev, Fran-CIS, was admitted 9 Octo- 
ber, 167S. This temporal coadjutor died 
at Liege, 22 March, 1712, ffit. 67. 

Allbv, Ralph, — All my information 
concerning him is derived from p. 133, vol. 
ii. of Dodd's Church History. He was a 
Londoner, and entered Douay (lollege in 
1572. After serving the Mission a short 
time, he retired abroad to embrace the pious 
Institute of St. Iguatius, and died about 
the year 1587. 

Allot, (Hewitt) Martin, of Derby- 
shire, for several years was employed in 
Missionary Duty : but died in France. 25 
September, 1661, set. 55, Rel. 34, 

Alloway, John, of Oxfordshire, wag 
admitted an Alumnus of the English College 
in Rome 1755, and there ioined the Society 
of Jesus, 9 October, 1766. Five years 
later he occurs Confessor to the English 
Teresian Nuns at Antwerp. In the autumn 
of 1776, he was aggregated to the college of 
St. Aloysius, and for many years was 
Chaplain at Hooton, in Cheshire. Reti- 
ring thence to Pilewell, in Hants, he con- 
tinued to officiate therefor about two years, 
when, with the approbation of Superiors, he 
removed to Portico, near Prescott : here he 
finished his mortal career on 15 March, 
1808, EBt. 64. He was interred, like many 
of his Brethren dying in that vicinity, in the 
ancient cemetery of Windleshaw. 

Almeida, John, (whose real surname 
was Mead), was a native of London. At 
the age often he was taken over to Viana, 
a sea-port in Portugal, by a merchant 
called Benedict de Roche, and brought up 
with his own children. With this Patron 
the youth proceeded at the age of 17, to 
Pernambuco, with the full intention of pur- 
suing a mercantile career; but Heaven des- 
tined him for greater things. Four years 
after quitting the shores of Portugal, he 
stood a candidate for admission into the So- 
ciety of Jesus. Placed under such a Master- 
spirit, as F. Joseph Anchietta,* ha could 

* This great Aoostle of Brazil sunk under tis 
labours 15 June, 1597, aged 64, Rel, 47. Alban 
Butler, in a note 5 Feb. SS. Lives, says, 'He was a 



not fail to become a rapid Proficient in ihe 
Science of the Saints. Ordained Priest in 
1602, he commenced his long and arduous 
course of Apostolic Labour : and we are at 
a loss which most to admire, his profound 
humility and evangelical spirit of self-denial, 
or the wonderful success of his Missionary 
exertions amongst the Savage Tribes, and 
his acknowledged gift of miracles. At last, 
struck with apoplexy, he took to his bed 12 
September, ( another account says 24 Sep- 
tember,; 1632, and 12 days after meekly 
resigned his soul into the hands of the 
Prince of Pastors, ar Rio Janeiro, aged 82, 
Soc. 61. His admirable life, written in 
Portuguese, by his friend F. Simon de Vas- 
concellos, and printed in folio at Lisbon in 
1 658, maybe seen abridged in the 10th book 
of F. More's Historia Provincise AnglicanEe. 

Altam, John, was amongst the earliest 
Missionaries in Maryland. He assisted at 
the baptism of Chilomacon, the great King 
at Pascatoway, in a Chapel prepared in the 
Indian fashion of the bark of trees, 5 July, 
1640. Shortly after F. Altam was attacked 
with fever, and was recommended for the 
recovery of his health to leave the country 
for St. Mary's Town, in the English colony. 
There he departed this life on 5 November 
following. 

Anderso:^, William, of Norfolk, joined 
the Order in tlie 19th year of his 
age, and was enrolled amongst the Pro- 
fessed Fathers, 12 October, 1623. We 
learn from pp. 485-6, of F. More's History 
of the English Province, that he had been 
educated at St. Omer's College, had dis- 
tinguished himself by his talents, and, after 
completing his higher studies in Rome and 
Sicily, for many years taught with con- 
siderable reputation. Sent to the English 
Mission, he laboured zealously for tlte sal- 
vation of souls. One of the daughters of 
the Bishop of Worcester (Q.Thornboroujh ?) 
had embraced the Catholic faith : her eHest 
brother, who kne\v this, having contracted 
a dangerous illness, and being reduced to 
extremity, implored her to obtain for hito 
the assistance of a Catholic Priest, zs other- 
wise his death would be most miserable. 
In consequence she sent for F. Anderson, 
who reconciled him to the Church, and pre- 
pared him for bis exit. In the meanwhile 
the dying youth discovered to his Right Rev. 
Parent, his conversion to the Catholic Faith, 
who contrived to apprehend the Jesuit at his 
next and third visit, and consigned him to a 
loathsome dungeon. Pveraoved afterwards to 
London, he was there treated with greater 
indulgence, and eventually, through tiie in- 
terest of Queen Henrietta Maria, discharged 
from custody. Returning to the vineyard, 
he continued for several years his apostolic 



man of apostolic humility, patience, meekness, 
prayer, zeal, and charity. The fruit of his labours 
was not less wonderful than the example of his 
■virtues.' 



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ministry with great zeal and success.^ The 
increase of asthma induced his Superiors to 
call him abroad : and from p. 131, vol. i. of 
Sander's "Flandria Illustrata," I collect 
that he was the second Rector of the house 
of Ghent. His death occured at St. Omer's 
College 9 June, 1657, set. 63. 

Another F. William, Anderson, (who 
often passed by the name of Ignatius 
Sheffield), bora 12 June, 1689, was ad-, 
raitted a Novice 7 June, 1721. For a con« 
siderable time he was stationed in Lincoln- 
shire, and died Superior of his Brethren 
there, at Kingerly, the seat of the Youn-s, 
near iMarket Raisin, 25 Auj^ust, 17G4. 

Anderton, Christopher, of Lancashire, 
embraced the Institute of St. Ignatius, in 
the 20ih year of his age, and for fourteen 
years, viz. from 1653 to 1667, and from 
1673 to 16S3, was Rector of the English 
College at Rome. Between the interval of 
this Rectorship he was employed as Peni- 
tentiary at St. Peter's. To iiini were given 

a PrcBfecto Sacrarii Apostolici," on li 
May, 1667, the Relics of a St. Gordian, a 
Martyr,* F. Anderton died at Rome, in 
1695. set. 80 : but the month I cannot learn. 

Anderton, Francis, of Lancashire, en- 
listed under the banner of St. Ignatius 21 
June, 1785, set. 21. The Annual Letters 
of 1710, shew that he was then actively" 
engaged in the Bishopric of Durham, and 
describe him as singulari laudedignus." 
The date of his death is not recorded. 

♦Anderton, James, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted at Watten, 7 September, 1703. This 
Scholastic was consigned to an early grave, 
dying at St. Omer, 5 October, 1710, aet.27. 

Andkrton, Lawrence, of Lancashire, 
educated at Blackburn School, and at 
Christ's College, Cambridge. Converted 
whilst actually a Minister of the Protestant 
Church, he became a Novice in 1604, set. 
28, and shone in the sequel amongst the 
most radiant names in the English ProTince, 
Lancashire was the principal theatre of his 
Apostolic labours ; and here this zealous 
and most learned Father appears to have 
died on 17 April, 1643, set. 67. As monu- 
ments of his Controversial Powers he left 

1. A Treatise, entitled " One God, one 
Faith," with the letters W. B. prefixed. 
8vo. 1625. 

2. " The Progenie of Catholics and 
Prote'itants," 4to. Rouen, 1663. The 
work is divided into 5 books, each sepa- 
rately paged. The first has 32 pages, the 
second 90, the third 59, the fourth 40, and the 
fifth 26 pages. 

3. " The Triple Cord; or a Treatise, 
proving tlie truth of the Roman Catholic 
Religion by the Bible, as explained by the 

• Q. Gordius, of Cscsarea, in Cappadocia, who 
suffered under Dioclesian, 3 January ? St. Gordian 
was beheaded at Rome. 10 May, 362, under Julian 

the Apostate, and his relics were possessed by the 
Benedictine Abbey of Kempton, near Augsburg.— 

S ee Butler's Lives of SS. 



Holy Fathers, and as interpreted by 
Protestant Writers." 4to. St. Oraer's, 
1634, p. 801. 

I suspect this is the Chaplain of the 
Earl of Essex, whom F. Gerard received 
into his house in London, and who assigned 
three reasons for adopting the Institute of 
St. Ignatius. 

1st. Because it was detested more than 
the other Religious Orders by Heretics and 
the Wicked of all classes. 

2nd. Because it foreclosed all hopes of 
Church Preferment. 

3rd. Because it especially cherished the 
practice of Obedience. 

Anderton, William, a native of Lan- 
cashire, was born 24 April, 1754, reached 
the College at Bruges, November 14, 1769 ; 
was ordained Priest, in the Church of the 
English Nuns, at Liege, March 11, 1780, 
with F. Thomas Angier. This worthy man, 
after filling the Othce of Prefect at Liege 
College, was sent to the Hereford Mission, 
vrhich he served upwards of twenty years. 
He died at his residence in the Broad-street 
of that city, 28 September, 1823, set. 70. 
His mortal remains were deposited in the 
Cathedral-yard, where a grave- stone re- 
cords his name, age, and date of his death. 
The Edilo.- of the Hereford Paper thus de- 
scribed him at the time : " This truly pious 
and excellent man was an honour to human 
nature, and an ornament to the Religion 
he professed. Although possessing only a 
small income, his unostentatious charities to 
the distressed were extensively bestowed, 
without consideration as to sect or opinion. 
With him, to use his own expressive words, 
' Charity was of all religions ; and where 
he thought relief was required, there it 
was cheerfully given. He was sincerely at- 
tached to his own Church, but free from 
intolerance and bigotry; independant and 
upright in his transactions, and kind and 
conciliating to all with whom he was con- 
nected. By his congregation he was high- 
ly esteemed and reverenced ; and by all who 
knew him, justly and deservedly loved. His 
blameless and virtuous life rendered his 
death-bed a scene of cheerful peace, of 
humble hope, and pious resignation ; and 
he departed without a pang, to receive the 
bright reward the righteous may justly ex- 
pect. For him death had no sting, the 
grave no victory ; and whilst he lingered 
on the threshold of eternity, the happy state 
of this good man's mind piesented to the 
contemplative Christian a spectacle, before 
which the pride of the self-stiled Great, or 
the presumption of the Enthusiast, dwin- 
dled into nothingness. His ways were 
those of peace, and his end that of the just." 

Angier, George. — This Father was Su- 
perior of his Brethren in Yorkshire, A.D. 
1640. In his letter of 1 October, that year, 
to the General Vitelleschi, he mentions that 
the perfidious Scotch were devastating, like 
a cloud of locusts, the northern ^'arts of 



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England ; that they had passed the borders 
en 28 August, with an army of 3,000 men ; 
that their Sovereign, (Charles 1.) had exer- 
cised excessive forbearance and lenity to- 
wards this barbarian phalanx ; and that un- 
less the Government should pursue a much 
more vigorous acd decided system, ihe 
"Worst consequences must be expected. He 
mentions the recent murder of an excellent 
officer, a man of family, Compton, Hare^ 
by his own troops. Ht had been recently 
reconciled to the Catholic Faith, and solely 
for refusing to attend the Protestant Church, 
gumma cum barbaric a propriis mililibus 
trucidatus est. More particulars I cannot 
discover of F. Angier. 

Angier, Thomas, born in Norwich, 19 
February, 1730 ; admitted a Novice of the 
Society at the age of 22, and to the rank of 
a Professed Father, 2 February, 1770. At 
the melancholy period of the dissolution of 
the Order, he vFas filling the Office of Rector 
of the English College at Bruges, and had 
much to suffer from the petty tyranny of the 
Austiian Government. Restored to liberty, 
he retired at length to his native city, where 
he passed, by a happy death, 12 June, 1788^ 
to the reward of a well-spent life. 

Angier, Thomas, nephew of the last 
mentioned, was born at Norwich, 10 Dec. 
1754 ; joined the Society in 1772 ; ordained 
Priest at Liege 11 March, 1780 ; for 5 years 
served the mission at Oxburgh, and fo*r 31 
years that of Bury St. Edmv.nd's. In 1626, 
the venerable Father retired to New Hall, 
Essex, where he crowned a blameless life 
by a mo St Christian death, January IS, 1837, 
and was interred in the Conventual Ceme- 
tery 

Akn, George, of a good family in the 
County of York. In the Provincial's Re- 
turn of 1655, this Father is stated to be then 
60 years of age, and to have passed thirty- 
tvpo years in the Society, and thirty years 
in the mission. He died 24 June, 1669. 

Appleby, William, of Yorkshire, en- 
lered the Order in 1629, and became a Pro- 
fessed Father 3 November, 1641. He died 
in England exhausted with Missionary la- 
bour, 14 July,l67l, set. 80. 

Aqcapontanus, Johx. — His real name 
■was Bridgewater, and he was of an ancient 
stock in Somersetshire. For conscience 
sake he resigned the Rectory of Porlock, 
and other preferments in 1574, and retired 
to Triers, where it seems he became a Je- 
suit ; for Ribadneira, in his Catalogue, pub- 
lished 1609, places him amongst the Writers 
of the Society ; but the date of his admission 
into the Order, and even of his death, 1 look 
for in vain. CoUinson, vol. ii. p. 40, Hist. 
Somerset, says, that "he was held in general 
estimation as a sensible Ecclesiastic." See 
also Wood's Hist, and Antiq. Oxon, part 
ii. p. 218. Dodd's Church Hist. vol. ii. pp. 
60. That the " Concertatio Ecclesiae An- 
glicanae," by F, John Gibbons, was re- 
edited Sit Treves, in 1594; by Aquaponta- 



nus, is proved, p. 20, by F. More's Hist. 
Prov. Ang, It is also well known that F. 
Robert Persons assisted in this work. 

The Latin 4to Treatise printed at Triers, 
in 1589, and entitled " Confutatio virulent® 
Disputationis Theologicag in qua Geor-^ius 
Sohn Heidelbergensis conatus est docere 
Pontificem Romanum esse Antichristum a 
Prophetis et Apostolis prsedictum," attribu- 
ted to him by the compiler cf the catalogue 
of the printed books in the British Museum, 
was the work of F. John Gibbons. 

Arben, Robert. — I meet with iico of 
this name. 

The first a native of Chichester, joined 
the Order at Louvain, on 7 April, 1565. 
Hen. More, p. 24 of his Hist. Angl. Prov. 
commemorates his valuable services as a 
Scholar and Theologian, but could not as- 
certain the place of his death. Perhaps the 
event occurred in Spain ; I read in F. Owen's 
letter, dated Rome, 28 April, 1618, "I have 
written to F. Cresswell lo send Father Arden 
to Valladolid." 

The second was born in Yorkshire, and 
died in England, full of davs and merits, 
February 14, 1668, set. 86, Rel. 48. 

Arnold, Adam. — All that I can glean of 
him is from the 14th chap, of the 6th 
book of Bartoli's Inghliterra, where he is 
"stated to have lived in Devonshire, and to 
have displayed pre-eminent zeal and ability 
in opposing King James the First's Oath of 
Allegiance. 

*Ahnodlt, Michael, died at Watten, 27 
April, 1675. 

Arkovvsmith, Edmukd. — "What a ccn- 
trast in the Biography of this illustrious 
servant of Christ, in Bishop Chaloner's 
iaitbful Memoirs of Missionary Priests, and 
Mr. Dodd's Notice, pp. 80-1, vol. iii. of his 
Church History. 1 his magnanimous mar- 
tyr suffered at Lancaster, on 7 September, 
1628, aet. 43, Missionis, 15 Soe. 5. Tanner 
in p, 99 of his History of the Martyrs of the 
Society, writes thus : " Socieiatem Jesu 
jam Vir, cetate matiira ingressus,quinque 
duntaxat annos in ea vivendo tranf^cgit.'* 
Read also " Recit veritable de la cruaute 
et Tyrannie Jaicte en Anghterre a I'en- 
droit du Pere Edmond Jrosmith de la 
compagnie de Jesus." 8vo. Paris, 1629, 
pp, 16 : also F. More's Interesting Narra- 
tive, from p. 462 of his History of the Eng- 
lish Province. — Many of our readers may 
have seen the " True and exact Relation 
of Two Catholics, who suffered for their 
Religion at the Summer Assizes, held at 
Lancaster, in the year 1628." Th-s oc- 
tavo Tract of 68 pp. containing portraits 
of F, Arrowsmith and Richard Herst, lay- 
man, was printed at I-ondon in 1737, and 
I think that F. Cornelius Murphy was its 
compiler. 

The hand of F. Arrowsmith is kept with 
great veneration at Garswood, a seat of 
Sir John Gerard, and has been the instru- 
ment of several extraordinary cures. 



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N.B. The Martyr's Father had died in 
prison, a generous conlessor of Catholic 
Faith. 

Arthur, Francis— See Maonock. 

Arundell, CHARLES^This third son of 
Thomas, fourth Lord Arundell, of Wardoui, 
by his Lady Margaret Spencer, was admit- 
ted at Watten into the Society on 7 Sep- 
tember, 1689, ffit. 20. He is mentioned in 
the Deedof Entail by his Grandfather Hen- 
ry, third Lord Arundell. That Charles was 
consigned to an early tomb, is highly pro- 
bable, from the circumstance of his name 
being omitted in his mother's will, which is 
dated 12 June, 1693. In that "Will his 
younger brother Matthew is particularly 
mentioned. I have reason to believe that 
he died in his Noviceship. 

AsHBY, Richard, whose true name was 
Thimbleby, was of a genteel and ancient 
family in Lincolnshire. The Annual Let- 
ters show that he joined the Society in 1632, 
and describe him as " l^ir doctus et pru- 
dens et amove Instiluti excellens," On 
22 November, 1646, he made the profession 
of the four Vows. After teaching Philoso- 
phy and discharging several collegiate of. 
fices, he was ordered to the Mission, where he 
laboured very diligently, and chiefly in his 
native county. In 1666, on the death of F. 
Wm. Campian, he was called over to Ghent 
to be the Rector of the House of Probation, 
and continued such until his appointment 
to the Presidency of St. Omer's College^ 
28 August, 1672. There he died 7 Janu- 
ary, 1680, set. 66. We have from his able 
pen, '* A Treatise on Purgatory," 8vo. 
London, 1663, "Remarks on Stillingjleet," 
4to. London, 1672. 

AsHBY, Thomas. — All that I collect of 
this Father is from the IMecrology, which 
states that he died in Maryland, in the 
course of the year 1767 ; but, in my humble 
judgment, this is the same person as F. 
James Middlehurst, (who passed by the 
name of Ashby,) if so he was born 16 Oc- 
tober, 1714), was admitted at Watten on 13 
June, 1739, and to his religious Profession 
15 August, 1752. This Father unquestion- 
ably died in Maryland, on 23 September, 
1767. 

Ashley, Ralph. — This devout lay-bro- 
ther was attached to F. E^dward Oldcorne, 
and was apprehended with him at Henlip. 
Committed to the Tower of London, " he 
was," says F. Gerard, " divers times put 
upon the torture : but he patiently and con- 
stantly endured all without revealing one 
person or place of his master's acquain- 
tance." Sent down to Worcester to die 
with him, he laid hold of the feet of his Rev 
Father, as they still rested on the ladder, 
and kissing them with tender devotion, he 
exclaimed, "What a happy man am I to 
follow the steps of my sweet Father unto 
death." He met his fate with the tran- 
quillity and fortitude becoming the disciple 
of such a Friend and Father, on 7 April, 



1606, at Redhillf about one mile from 
Worcester, on the right hand of the road 
leading to London. 

Aston, ViLLiAM : son, I believe, of Ed- 
ward Aston, by Ann Bayley his wife, was 
born in London on 22 Apiil, 1735 ; at the 
age of 16 he embraced the Institute of St. 
Ignatius, and was admitted to his solemn 
Profession on 2 February, 1769. His com- 
manding talents and accomplished manners 
recommended him for the Presidency of the 
Minor College at Bruges. At its violent 
suppression, on 20 September, 1773, he had 
to share in the hardships and calamities of 
his fellow brethren ; and against every 
principle of humanity, justice, and honour, 
was detained a close prisoner for eight long 
months. 1 have now before me the original 
letter which he addressed Irom Louvain, on 
26 May, 1774, to Henry, the 8th Lord 
Arundell, of Wardour, who had signalised 
himself by his spirited and decided exertions 
with the Austrian Government, in favour of 
these his oppressed countrymen. 

"My Lord, — Ihe first use we make of 
our liberty, is to acknowledge you to be the 
procurer of it. Be pleased to accept our 
most grateful thanks. We are this moment 
arrived here from Ghent. To-morrow we 
hope to reach Liege. From thence 1 shall 
acknowledge your Lordship's last favour, 
and give a detail of this affair. We all de- 
sire to be remembered to her Ladyship, to 
whom we present our respects. 

1 have the honour to be, my Lord,; your 
Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
Wm. Aston." 

Some few years later, F. Aston set up an 
Academy at Liege. From its Bishop he ob- 
tained a C anonicate in the Collegiate 
Church of St. John in that city. He finish- 
ed his course on 15 March, 1800. He had 
been engaged in writing for Reviews and 
Journals, and had published, D' Azais' 

Compte Rendu," Letlres VUra-Mon- 
taines," and " La Cosmopolite." 

Atkins, Francis.— This British sub- 
ject on his conversion to the Catholic 
Faith, entered among the Jesuits in Bra- 
zil, about the yeai 1749. Until the year 
1759 he was in the habit of writing 
to his mother at Bombay, and to some 
friends in England, acknowledging the 
happiness of his situation, and praying for 
their conversion. After that year a dead 
silence ensued. The truth was, he lay one 
of the prostrate victims of Carvalho'a de- 
testable barbarity. Shortly after the death 
of that imbecile monarch, Joseph 1. his 
daughter and successor. Donna Maria 1. 
threw open the dungeons, and poor Atkins 
was restored to life and liberty. In a let- 
ter to Mr. Hunter, (his father-in law) at 
Bombay, he gives a circumstantial account 
of his late most unhappy and wearisome 
captivity. He stales that the whole of his 
Order had been seized in the dead of night, 
throughout Brazil, and hurried on board a 



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48 



ship ; that he and thirty-two more, on their 
arrival in Portugal, were confined in a dun- 
geon at the mouth of the Tagus, and where 
he had never seen the face of the sun for 
nearly eighteen years : that half of his com- 
panions perished {rom the severity of their 
confinement, and that the constitutions of 
the survivors were entirely ruined. Atkins 
himself came forth in an emaciated con- 
dition, and fell into a decline, which car- 
ried him off within three months after his 
release, in the summer of 1777. He is no- 
ticed in St. James" Chronicle, February, 
1778. 

• Atkins, William, of Cambridgeshire, 
born 1601 ; joined the Society in 1635 ; 
«as declared Rector of his Brethren in 
the College of St. Aloysius, on 1 December, 
1653. Mention is made of this Father in 
the " Catholicon " of April, 1818, where 
there is an interesting Report of the Dis- 
covery of St. Chad's Relics. 

This venerable Father had letired from 
the active life of a Missionary to Wolver- 
hampton, and was entirely paralytic and 
perfectly deaf when he was apprehended as 
an accomplice in Gate's plot !— "Witnesses 
of such a character as not to deserve credit 
in the most trifling cause, upon the most 
immaterial facts, gave evidence so incredi- 
ble, or, to speak more properly, so im- 
possible to be true, that it ought not to have 
been believed, if it had come from the mouth 
of Cato," — Fox's Hist. p. 34, introduc. 
chap. Nevertheless, on such testimony 
was this helpless Jesuit dragged into court 
and condemned at Stafford, on 13 August, 
1679. He was suffered, however, to die in 
goal, and on 17 March, 168 J, he exchanged 
a life of misery for never-ending liberty and 
happiness. 

See the Brevis Relatio felicis Agonis, 
dfc. by F. Matthias Tanner, 4to. Prague, 
1683, pp. 89. with eight portraits, viz. of 
FF. Baker, Evans, Gavan, Fenwick, Tur- 
ner, Waring, Harcourt, and Ireland. This 
little work fetched at the Townley sale 7 
guineas ! ! 

Atkinson, John, born in November, 
1687, was entered an Almunus of the Eng- 
lish College at Rome, in 1703 : joined the 
Society on 24 February, 1708 ; for many 
years filled the office of Penitentiary at Lo- 
retto, and St. Peter's at Rome. He died in 
the latter city on 24 February, 1762. 

Atwood, Peter, was admitted into the 
Order on 7 September, 1703, and to his Re- 
ligious Profession in 1721, He died Su- 
perior of the Maryland Mission on 25 Dec. 
1734, aged 32. 

Avellaneda, John. — His real name was 
Hazle or Hazlewood, He was a native of 
London ; and we learn from p. 736, of 
Tanner's Confessors of the Society, that 
he often passed in England by the name of 
Thomas Bebridge. After studying Hu- 
manities at St. Omer's, and finishing a regu- 
lar course of Philosophy and Divinity, this 



young Priest was ordered to Cadiz, where 
Almighty God was pleased to call him to 
the reward of charity in obsequio pesti- 
/eroj'it»i," 9 February, 1649, set. 28, Soc. 
13. Tanner affirms that he had an uncle 
*' dc Societate nostra Sacerdos, who was 
martyied in London. 

Bapthorpe, Albert. — I believe he was 
of the respectable family in Yorkshire of 
that name. In vain I search for the date 
of his aamission into the Society. He was 
certainly serving the Lancashire Mission at 
the very commencement of the eighteenth 
century ; and occurs Rector of his Brethren 
there, in a document bearing date 31 July, 
1712. He died (I think at Croxteth) on 13 
April, 17-20. " Nostris cams, externis 
venerandus, egregie lahoravit Evangelio." 
An. Litt. 

Bapthorpe, Richard, born in York- 
shire : at the age of 34 joined the Society, 
At the expiration of his Noviceship in 1653, 
he was sent to the English Mission ; and 
died at Stafford, in lo8l, set. 64. 

Bapthorpe, Thomas, a relation of the 
above, and a man of distinguished merit, 
was Rector of the Eng.isii College, at 
Rome, from 1650 to 1653. He was then 
appointed to the government of St. Omer's 
College, and died in the tenure of that 
oSce, whiht cn a visit at Ghent, in 1656, 
aet. 60, Soc. 38, Prof. 22. 

Bacon, John, of Norfolk, born in 1597 : 
at the age of 20 entered the Novitiate ; and 
on 8 December, 1635, was enrolled amongst 
the Professed Fathers. After teaching 
Piiilosophy, he was ordered to the English 
Mission ; and probably died during the 
civil wars. 

N.B. For FF. Nathaniel and Thomas 
Bacon, see Southwell. 

Ballieu, James.— This temporal coad- 
jutor died at Watten, 8 February, 1704, aet. 
54, Rel. 14. 

Baker, Alexander. — I cannot recover 
the date of his joining the Society. He is 
mentioned in p. 155, vol. iii. of Dodd's 
Church History. His pardon by K. 
Charles I., dated 12 July, 1625, may be 
read p. 392, vol. xv;I!. ot Liymev'sFcedera. 
This worthy Fatlier died in England, 24 
August, 1638, 

Baker, Cha?.les. — His real name was 
David Lewis, and he was born in Mon- 
mouthshire, in 1616 : at the age of 28 he 
united himself to the Society at Rome, 
where he said his first Mass 22 July, 1642, 
He was admitted to the Profession of the 
4 Vows in London, 20 May, 1655. From 
the Brevis Relatio felicis Agonis, 
which we have already noticed in this 
handful of Gleanings (^Art. Atkins Wm.) 
we learn that his apostolic labours for 
about thirty years in his native county, 
and the parts adjacent, were indefatigable ; 
that he was the friend and father of the 
poor ; that he was universally rtipected, 
esteemed, and beloved. But in the popular 



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excitement and phrenzy occasioned by 
Oates plot, the good Father was appre- 
hended by means of Justice Arnold, on 17 
November, 1678, whilst in the act of pre- 
paration for Holy Mass, and conducted 
forthwith to Abergavenny, in mock triumph, 
and on the following day escorted to Mon- 
mouth. At the end of a month he was re- 
moved to Usk, where be signalized his zeal 
and charity in favor of the numerous Catho- 
lics incarcerated there. Indicted for being 
an accomplice in Oaie's plot, he victoriously 
exposed the absurdity and iniquity of the 
vile accusation ; but in that epoch of na- 
tional delirium, innocence was no defence, 
no protection. It was enough that he was 
a Catholic Priest ; and the jury, influenced 
by party feeling, and appalled by the epide- 
mic terror of an imaginary danger, brought 
in a verdict of guilty. 1 his blessed man 
sufiFered martyrdom at Usk, on 27 August, 
1679. See Bp. Challoner's Memoirs of 
Missionary Priests. 

Shortly after F. Baker's execution, ap- 
peared a pitiful Diatribe, sntltlod " A 
Short Narrative of a College of Jesuits, 
at Come,\n Herefordshire, with a true re- 
lation of the Knavery of F. Lewis, pretend- 
ed Bishop of LlandafF." London, 1679. 

Baker, John, admitted a novice at Wat- 
ten, 7 September, 1670. He succeeded 
F. Christopher Green, July, 1699, in 
the office of Penitentiary in St. Peter's at 
Home ; and died at Watten, 29 August, 
1719, ait. 75. 

Baker, William. — This amiable youth 
(whose real name was Jones) was taken ill 
in the Noviceship,, and was sent to England 
for the benefit of his health, where he died 
22 August, 1675, set. 23, Soc. 2. " Opti- 
mcB Spei adolescens." 

Baldwin, William, of Cornwall, when 
a boy went to school with F. John Cor- 
nelius. Sent to the English College at 
Rome, and actually promoted to Priest- 
hood, he sued for admission into the So- 
ciety. He obtained his request in 1590, 
and twelve years later was advanced to the 
dignity of a professed Father. Though dis- 
tinguished for prudence, and a love of peace- 
ful courses, he was seized in the Palatinate, 
as he was journeying towards Rome, in 
1610, on suspicion of having been an ac- 
complice in the Gunpowder Plot, five years 
before, and sent over to England in irons. 
In those days of ministerial tyranny, he 
was at once committed a close prisoner to 
the Tower of London, and stretched on the 
rack : his captivity lasted for eight long 
years. His innocence at length was so clear- 
ly established and demonstrated, that this 
inquisitorial Government reluctantly let go 
their victim, and forwarded to the Lieuten- 
ant of the Tower a warrant for his dis- 
charge on 15 June, 1018. Four years later 
he was appointed the filth (not ihe first, as 
Dodd asserts, p. 393, vol. ii. Church Hist.) 
Rector of St. Onier's College, which under 



his auspices prospered to such a degree, aS 
to number nearly two hundred scholars. 
This very discreet, studious, and pious Fa- 
ther, died in office, 28 September, 1632, set. 
69, (not 62, as F. More, p. 378, and Tan- 
ner, p, 629, incorrectly have stated.) Be- 
fore his apprehension in the Palatinate, he 
had resided at Brussels, and in a MS. ac- 
count of the first establishment of the Eng- 
lish Benedictine Monastery at Brussels, 
I read, *' We owe unto the good Father 
Baldwin, the true foundation of spirit and 
holy religion. Almighty God be blessed, 
who granted our Monastery his religious 
help tor ten years." 

His very numerous English Manuscript 
Treatises on pious subjects, are enumerated 
by F. Nathaniel Southwell, pp. 312-3, 
Bibliotheca Scriptorum, S. J. 

Baillon, Joh.v. — This temporary coad- 
jutor was admitted 26 January, 1682, and 
died at Liege. 13 May, 1715, set. 66. 

Rampfield, George. — The Provincial 
List of 1655, describes him as a native of 
Warwickshire, as being then 66 years of 
age, as having lived in the Society 42 years, 
and as having been professed on 7 March, 
1634. He died in the English mission, 
which he bad served many years, in the 
month of September, 1657. 

N.B. F.More, p. 378, mentions a F. 
John Bampjidd, as being sentenced to 
banishment in 1618 ; but see hira under 
John Rogers. 

Banister, William, died at Watten, 6 
December, 1666. 

Bankes, John, — All that I can glean of 
him is, that he died in England, IS Decem- 
ber, 1667. 

Bankes, Richard, of London. — Whilst 
a student in the English College at Rome, 
he was one of the leaders of factious oppo- 
sition to his Jesuit Superiors ; but on his 
going to the English Mission, was so cap- 
tivated with the charity, meekness and 
patience of the good Fathers^ that to repair 
his fault, be humbly sought to be incorpo- 
rated with them. F. Garnett received him, 
and appointed him socius to that great mas- 
ter of spirituality, F.Edward Oldcorne ; 
and after some time he was recommended 
by F. John Gera d, for the situation of 
Chaplain to Lady Vaux. After serving the 
mission altogether for 44 years, he retired 
abroad, with a constitution enfeebled and 
undermined by severe imprisonment, endured 
for the faith, and died at Ghent, 14 March, 
1643, aet, 74, Kel. 46, He was professed 
14 May, 1609. The Annual Letters make 
him three years older, I think, incorrectly; 
but justly stile him Vir antiquce et per 
omnia eximie probates virtutis." 

Barker, John, was certainly a Mission- 
ary in 1701 and 1704. His death occurred 
10 June, 1705. 

Baurard, Richard, (often called Bar- 
rcf) of Lancashire, admitted at Watten in 
1690 ; made a Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 



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1701 J was serTing the mission near 
Welchpool in 1725 ; died at Watten, 29 
January, 1740, set. 70. 

Barrow, Edward, of Lancasiiire, pass- 
ing by the name of Davis, joined several 
other candidates for the Society at Watten, 
7 September, 1683. In the early part of the 
last century I meet with hira as a Mission- 
ary at Westby, in the Fylde, where I think 
he died in August, 1721, aet. 61. 

Barrow, Joseph, born at Westby in the 
Fylde, in the county of Lancaster, 27 Feb- 
ruary, 1740 ; at the age of 18 he offered 
himself to God in the Society ; for a short 
time was the Incumbent at Tusmore, and 
at Exeter, then at Arlington Court, Devon ; 
but for the last 36 years of his life, was 
settled at St. Helen's, where he laboured 
with great zeal and success. On 1 Septem- 
ber, 1793, he opened the present chapel at 
Lowe House, so called from the maiden 
name of Mrs. Winifred Eccleston, its 
pious and munificent benefactress.* F. Bar- 
row died suddenly, 5 January, 1813, and 
was buried near his own altar. 

Barrow, Richard, elder brother of the 
last mentioned, was born 21 October, 1738 ; 
at the age of 17 he entered the Novitiate. 
In 1775 he commenced his missionary 
career at Pontefract ; but on the death of 
F. Marmaduke Langdale, in 1786, at 
Wigan, he suucceeded as Pastor to that nu- 
merous congregation. Here he finished his 
pious and meritorious course, IT October, 
1799, and was buried at Windleshaw. 

N.B. The Rev. John Barrow, brother 
to F F. Richard and Joseph Barrow, a most 
venerable Priest of Douay College, and a 
doughty champion of Religion, died at 
Claughton Lane, near Garstang, 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1811. 

Barrow, Thomas. — This prodigy of 
learning was born at Eccleston, near Pres- 
ent, onl7 September, 1747. At an early 
age, viz. Sept. 1758, he was sent over to St. 
Omer's College, and under his Master, Rev. 
Jas. Adams, took the lead of his fellow stu- 
dents in genius and successful application.t 

• This venerable Lady died 16 June. 1793, set. 
81, and 51st of her widowhood. She was daughter 
of Anthony Lowe, Esq. M.D. of Deibyshixe, and 
after the death of her husband, John Gorouch 
Eccleston, of Eccleston, Esq., retired to Cowley 
House. 



t The following MS. hand-bill of F. Adams. 
( which I copied from the original) shows how 
proud he was of his pupil. 

" Thomas Barrow, iliscipulus mens, annos natui 14 
(it should bo 16). 

Exercitatio Grsca. 

Multa nobis Scriptores Graeci doctrinae momi- 
menta reliquemnt Artium omnium et studiorum 
ex emplaria perfectissiraa. Plaucit literarum aman- 
tioribus exhibere quae in rebus Poeticis ab Antiquis 
illis admiratione dignissima visa sunt. 

PosTiB £?ici —Inter hos primum tenet locum 
Homerus, Scripsit Iliada. Odysseam, Hymnos in 
ApoUinem, Mercurium itc. &c.p Smyrneas res, 
Trojanas, 



On 7 September, six yearg after his arrivaly 
Piety led him to the Novitiate. In subse 
quent life his services to the establishment 
at Liege, and then at Stonyhurst, were in- 
calculable ; for he excelled in every depart - - 
ment of knowledge. As a Spiritualist also, 
he must have been pre-eminent, judging from 
many of his letters now before me. The 
only specimens of his erudition which have 
seen the press, are, I believe, an Hebrew 
Ode and a Greek Pastoral, complimentary 
to the Prince Bishop of Liege, Francis 
Charles de Velbruck, in 1772; and another 
Hebrew Ode and a Greek Pastoral, in ho- 
nour of Francis Anthony de Mean, the last 
Prince Bishop of Liege, in 1792. At the 
emigration of his Brethren from Liege, in the 
summer of 1794, F. Barrow was absent 
from the College, and experienced great un» 
easiness of mind about certain confidential 
papers locked up in his chamber. For 
safety's sake, as I find by his letter to the 
late Mrs. Dalton, of 30 November, 1801, in 
which he relates this circumstance, he adds, 
he ordered all his letters and papers to be 
burnt promiscously, " which was done, to 
my great and irreparable loss." At the 
Peace of Amiens he was directed to return 
to Liege, to look after the property and in- 
terests of his brethren as well as the con- 
cerns of the Nuns, now at Newhall. The 
renewal of the war with France prevented 
his rejoining his anxious friends at Stony- 
hurst, and he died at Liege, 12 June, 1813, 
ffit. 67. 

" Jacet CBterno dignus Jionore Senex.'* 
* Bartelot, John, of Artois, was ad- 
mitted into the English Province 29 Janu- 
ary 1642, aet. 28, and made himself most 
useful to his brethren in {he capacity of 
Temporal Coadjutor. He died at Watten, 
26 March, 1677, and is commended in the 
Annual Letters. 

" Ob constantem aiiimi serenitatem, ae 
patieutiam in magnis corporis doloribus 
insignis." 

Babtlett, George, of Oxfordshire, aS 
the age of 48, was a suecessful candidate 
for the Society ; he died at Ghent, 12 Sep- 
tember, 1645, set. 75. 

Bartlett, Righard. — All that I caa 
collect of this Father is, that after enduring 
imprisonment for justice sake, he was sen- 
tenced to banishment in 1648, and that he 
died in France, 22 February, 1645. 

Bartlett, Felix, born 19 March, 1708, 



Apollonius, Argonautica 

Hesiodus, opera et dies. Scutum Herculis 

Traqici.— jEschylus, Sophocles. Euripides. 

COMtEDi.— Aristophanes, Menander, cujus pauea 
rest«nt fragmenta. 

BucoLici. — Theocritus, Moschus, Bion. 

Lteici — Pindarus, Anacreon, &c. 

Enumeratis adduntur Poetse Minores. 

Hosce omnes libros petentibus explieabit modo 
Anglice. modo Latine ad rogantium arbitrium 
Thomat Barrow. Idem quoque, ne totus Graecis 
et Latinis deditus videatur, varies in orbe locorum 
situs, praecipua fiumina, urbes, Imperii forma 
quaerentibus indicabit. 



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probably at Worcester, where his mother 
proved herself a generous friend to the 
Society. At the age of eighteen Felix en- 
rolled himself among the children of St. 
Ignatius, and fourteen years later, viz. in 
1740, was raised to the rank of a Professed 
Father ; for some years he was slationed 
at Hanley Castle, Worcester appears to 
have been his chief residence, and there he 
ended his mortal course, 14 May, 1777. 

Barton, Edward.— I have seen his 
M.S. Latin Oration, pronounced at the fu- 
neral of Cardinal Edward Farnese, This 
Father died in 1624. 

Barton, Richard, of Lancashire, a man 
of singular merit. — After spending 15 years 
in the Society, he was enrolled amonst its 
Professed Fathers, on 22 July, 1640. 
From 1656, to 1660, he filled the oliice of 
Provincial of his brethren, and then was 
appointed successor to F. Hen. More, in the 
government of St. Omer's College, There he 
died on 13 February, 1669, set. 67, to use 
the words of the Annual Letters, " «&« 
nonumjam annum felicissime regebat in- 
signi prasertim vigilantia et consiliOf 
quibus apprime valebat." 

Mr. Dodd. p. 12, "List of Controver- 
sial Writers^" etiles him a learned Jesuit, 
and asserts that he was the author of a 
Treatise On the Nullity of the Protestant 
Ordinations^ against Dr. Bramhall. With 
deference I submit that this is a mistake. 
Southwell is at least silent on the subject, 
in the Bibiliotheca Scriptorum Soc. Jesu. 

Barton, Peter, (alias Bradshavf) of 
Lancashire, at the age of 21 consecrated 
himself to religion, and was raised 15 years 
later, viz. 25 November, 1646, to the rank 
of a Professed Father. After serving the 
English Mission 26 years, he died happily 
on 17 April, 1676, at. 66. 

Barton, Robert, of Lancashire, was 
aggregated to the Society in 1614, and died 
at Liege ; but the date has escaped ray re- 
search. 

Barton, Thomas. — There were two FF. 
of this name, and probably of the same 
family in Lancashire. The elder was born 
in 1606 ; was admitted at the age of 25, to 
the Noviceship ; and on 15 August, 1642, 
to the profession of the Four Vows. He 
died in England, 7 October, 1663, after 
serving the mission 14 years. 

The junior was born in 1612, joined the 
Order when 19 years old ; was admitted 
to his profession 16 August, 1652 ; and 
died in Maryland, at the advanced age of 
84. 

Bastard, Robert, of Norfolk. — This 
worthy Priest of Douay College was sen- 
tenced to exile in 1606, and at the age of 36, 
in Feb. 1607, commenced his Noviceship at 
Louvaine, and took the simple Vows of the 
Order 1 March, 1609. He died in Eng- 
land ; but I fear the time veill remain un- 
discovered. 

Batte, N, — This temporal coadjutor died 
in 1732i L 



Baynham, John, born I December, 1720. 
After finishing Humanities at St. Omer's 
College, he was conducted by his master 
ofRhetorick, F. Richardson, to the Novi- 
tiate at Watten, 7 September, 1740. For 
many years he served the Grafton mission. 
He died, I am informed, at Pursehall, 24 
February, 1796. 

Baxter, Roger, of Walton le Dale, near 
Preston, in the county of Lancashire, finished 
his studies at Stony hurst. After serving 
the Maryland and Pensylvania mission with 
great credit, he died prematurely at Phila- 
delphia, on 24 May, 1827, ast. 34. We 
copy from a Philadelphia paper the follow- 
ing notice of this talented and zealous cler- 
gyman : — "The remains of the Rev. R* 
Baxter, clergyman of the Roman Catholic 
Church in Philadelphia, were interred on 
the 26th of May. His funeral was attended 
by the Bishop, and a numerous assemblage 
of his admirers, anxious to pay the last 
tribute to his xnemory. The respect in which 
he vyas held by those who were intimately 
acquainted with his many virtues, unassum- 
ing manners, and sincere piety, has induced 
them to erect a marble monument to com- 
memorate their esteem. Few persons have 
descended into the grave better entitled to 
the regrets of their numerous surviving 
friends." 

We have seen from Mr. Baxter's pen : 

1. *' Remarks on Le Mesurier's Sermon 
on Invocation of Saints. 8vo, London, 
1816. 

2, "T%e most Important Tenets of Ro' 
man Catholics fairly explained** 12mo. 
Washington, 1819. pp. 76. 

Baxter, William, whose real name was 
Case, vras a native of Lancashire, and 
joined the Society in 1711. After many 
years employment in the English vineyard, 
he was called to receive his retribution at 
Worcester, which he had served 27 years, 
on 13 July, 1747, ffit. 57. 

Beadle, William.— The Annual Letters 
testify that he died at Watten, 23 September, 
1638 ; that he had sacrificed fortune for 
conscience sake, and had suffered imprison- 
ment for the cause of religion, and that he 
was " Vir Antiqu<s simplicitatis et can- 
doris eximii.*' 

Beaugrand, Cornelius. — This Fland- 
rian lay-brother, after rendering inestimable 
services to the English Province, died in a 
good old age at Ghent, in 1716. 

Beaumont, James, alias Hunt, died at 
Liege, 27 September, 1778. 

Beaumont, Joseph, born in June, 1703 : 
admitted 7 September, 1723 ; Professed 2 
February, 1741 ; died at Cowley Hill, St. 
Helens, where he had officiated for many 
years, on 13 February, 1773, and was 
buried at Windleshaw. 

N.B. Beaumont,Philip,z\\zs Greenway^ 
see Tesimondy Oswald. 

Beaumont, William, of Stone-EastoUf 
in the county of Somerset, born 28 January, 



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1697: joined the Order at the age of 21 ; 
was Professed 2 February, 1737 : after 
labouring in the residence of St. Stanislaus, 
and at Boaham, and Lulworth,he retired to 
his native place, where he departed in peace 
15 October, 1764. 

Bedingfield, Antront. — This worthy 
gentleman was born 28 October^ 1697 : on 
3 December, 1714, he joined the Society, 
He was much engaged in later life with ac- 
companying young men of family in their 
travels. In 1741, 1 meet with him as a 
missionary at Liverpool. He died at Liege, 
2 June, 1752. 

Bedingfield, Edward, entered an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in the year 1614; and subsequently em- 
braced the pious Institute of St. Ignatius ; 
but I cannot pursue the rest of his history. 

Bedingfield, Matthew, after finishing 
his classic studies at St. Oraer, commenced 
his Noviceship at Watten, 7 September, 
1664, where I lose sight of him. 

Q. Was not he brother to the Mr. Be- 
dingfield who had nine daughters, all reli- 
gious, the youngest of whom, Ann Bona- 
venture, became third Abbess of the Poor 
Clares, at Gravelines, and died 17 Novem- 
ber, 1597? 

Beeston, James Philip. — His real name 
was Bourgeois. He was born in French 
Flanders, 5 January, 173S. At the age of 
22 he enlisted in the Society. The last two 
years of his life he spent at Canford, in Dor- 
setshire, as Chaplain to the Theresian nuns, 
and there he died suddenly, 19 May, l8U. 

Beeston, Robert. — After studying Hu- 
manities at Sr. Omer's, under F. Richardson, 
in company with 7 other rhetoricians, he 
proceeded to the Novitiate in 1680, made 
his simple Vows two years later, and the 
solemn "Vows of Religion 2 February, 1698, 
When he had taught a course of Humanitie, 
he was sent to the Worcestershire mission, 
but recalled in 1708, to Watten, to fill the 
post of muster of Novices. At the end of 
three years he was declared Rector of Ghent, 
and thence again remanded to the Govern- 
ment of Watten, for which he was eminently 
qualified by his experience in spiritual 
things. Indeed for 16 years in the whole, 
he was employed in training the Novices in 
the spirit of the Institute. From 1721 to 
1724, he was Provincial of his brethren. 
God took this pious soul to himself at St. 
Omer's College, 9 August, 1732, set. 73. 

Q, Was he not the compiler of the little 
" Treatise on Devotion to the Sacred 
Heart of our Saviour, J. C. " 12rao. 
A. P. 1711, pp. 53 and dedicated to his 

esteemed friends, Mrs. S th, and Mrs. 

Margaret S 1. 

Bennet, John, of a genteel family, 
was born at Brincanellin, in the parish of 
(!ombe, near Holywell, in the Archdeaconry 
of St. Asaph. In the town of St, Asaph 
he received the early pari of his education. 
Thencc going to the Seminary of Douay, 



he was ordained Priest, and was one of tie 
seven missionaries that were first sent 
over to England. North Wales was the 
principal theatre of his generous and indefa- 
tigable zeal ; but he was apprehended 
about the year 1582, by Sir Thomas Mos- 
tyu, as he was passing on foot by Clod- 
deth, the knight's residence in Carnarvon- 
shire, who conveyed him to Dr. Wm. 
Hughes.* the Bishop of St. Asaph, an apos- 
tate Priest. His Lordship employed all 
the arts of persuasion to induce the mis- 
sionary to imitate his disgraceful example ; 
but finding that it would be easier to turn 
the sun from its course, than pervert this 
champion of truth, he committed him to 
the jail in Flint Castle, as a close prisoner. 
At his trial at Holywell, where the Assizes 
were held that year, he gave such demon- 
stration of Christian fortitude and con- 
tempt of life, as to excite the astonishment 
and admiration of the whole court. His 
life was spared, (for he was a general fa- 
vourite with the gentry of the county) but 
he was removed to Ludlow Castle. Here 
says a MS. account, " he was not only 
more rigorously used than in ,his own 
country, but also several ways grievously 
tormented. In particular, it is very me- 
morable, what be there answered to a 
swaggering and forward minister, that 
would needs dispute with hira while he 
was tortured on the rack. For when he 
had given him some pertinent answers, the 
insolent pedant still persisted with greater 
contempt and provoking virulence. Where- 
upon the holy man, turning to the execu- 
tioner, said, ' Well, seeing nothing will sa- 
tisfy this babbling fellow, but a loquacious, 
dispute, I pray you hoist him up on another 
rack, that from like Pulpits, we may argue 
the matter on equal terms." After a long 
and painful imprisonment, this Confessor 
of the Faith was sentenced to perpetual 
banishment in September, 15S5, and the 
next year joined the Society of Jesus at 
Verdun, being then 36 years old. At the 
expiration of his Noviceship he returned 
with increased ardor to prosecute his Apos- 
tolic labours, " assisting for the most 
part the poor and meaner sort of people, 
who about Holywell and elsewhere in 
North Wales, flocked to hira in such multi- 
tudes, that in the depth of night he used to 
have an hundred of them in one assembly ; 
which to him that will consider with what 
rigour the tyrannical laws against Ca- 
tholics were then put into execution, will 
seem no small wonder. Indeed the faith- 
ful people had an exceeding great esteem 
of him, whom, in his life-time, they 
commonly called the Saint. Finally, after 
he had laboured about fifty years in the 
vineyard of Christ with great profit, being 
almost eighty years old, he would needs 
crown all his Apostolical merits, by off'er- 
ing himself a victim of charity for the 

* Oblit 19tli November. IGOO, Epis. £7. 



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spiritual wants of his neighbours, dying 
in the service of the infected with the 
plague, that gi-eviously reigned in London, 
in the year of Christ 1625 ; which service, 
as a special favour, he earnestly begging 
it, obtained by order of obedience from 
his Superiors, who could not deny it to 
one so laden with merits. Thus the Col- 
lege of St. Xavier had the happiness to 
send to the Celestial Table, this its an- 
cientest member, as the first fruit of its 
Evangelical Industries, which was long 
before thoroughly ripened for the immor- 
tal glory.'- Drews incorrectly fixes his 
death to the 25th December, of the year 
one thousand six hundred and twenty- 
eight. 

F. John Bennet usually passed in the 
mission by the name of Price. 

Another F. John Bennett, born 17 
March, 1693, entered the Society in 1710. 
For some time he was employed in the 
Maryland mission, but actually died at 
Hayfield, or Highfield, near Wigan, 13 
April, 1751. His real name was Gorling, 

Bennett, Robert, was admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1579. He joined the Society in France, 
and perished at sea off Alicant, in 1590, 
set. 40. 

Bennett, Thomas. — In the Annual 
Letters of 1647, is a long and interesting 
narrative furnished by this good Father, 
of his apprehension by four of the Somerset- 
shire cavalry in the service of the Parlia- 
ment, between Bridgewater and Poole ; of 
tJie insults and indignities he experienced 
at their hands, and of his success in extri- 
cating himself from them. Had they known 
him to be a Priest, (for be personated a 
poor simple peasant) he would have proba- 
bly have been dispatched at once. He died 
at Ghent, 10 December, 1664. 

Bennett, William. — I think he was 
born in Cheshire in 1609 : at the age of 25 
he became a member of the Society, and in 
J640 made his debut as a missionary. 
Twice a prisoner for the Faith, and twice 
condemned to death, he finished his earthly 
course in Leicester gaol, 30 October, 1 692, 
*' octoyenario major." 

Bentley, Edward, of London, joined 
the Order at the age of 21, and was admit- 
ted to the Profession of the Four Vows, 
23 May, 1627. He had filled the Oflice of 
Penitent iaiy at Rome, but from ill health 
was obliged to resign it on 29 April, 1623. 
The last 31 years of his life he spent in 
missionary labours in his native country, 
dying on 19 May, 1656, set. 68. 

Bentlev, John, born in Lincolnshire, 
admitted to his noviceship at the age of 22, 
and to his solemn Profession 19 November, 
1627. After forty years of arduous service 
in the mission, he died in England, 6 April, 
1063, set. 74. 

Bentnly, William, of Cheshire.— The 
Provincial Kclurn of 1655, relates that he 



was then 46 years old, of which he had 
passed 25 in the Society, and 15 in the 
English mission. From the Annual Let- 
ters of 1682, I collect that the venerable 
man was then the '" vinctus Christi" in 
Leicester gaol. I find by a letter of F. 
John Warner to the General Oliva, dated 
Ghent, 16 March, 1683, that no one in the 
county of Leicester could be found to give 
information of his priesthood — that his ene- 
mies had procured his removal to Derby — 
that he had there been found guilty — that 
the execution of his sentence had been de- 
ferred — that the judge had in the mean- 
while directed that the good old man should 
be treated well. He probably died in pri- 
son shortly after. 

Berry, Francis, of Lincolnshire. — A 
letter of this Rev. Father whilst superior of 
his brethren in Lincolnshire, to the General 
Caraffa, dated 22 May, 1646, is fortunately 
preserved. It states that for the four pre- 
oeeding years they had no rest or fettled 
abode. Before the commencement of the 
civil wars there were ten priests in the 
county, now they were reduced to six, and 
struggling hard for a maintenance. The. 
Catholics were nearly deprived of all their 
property ; several were driven from their 
houses ; and yet they were content and 
cheerful in their misfortunes find trials : 
deeming themselves happy to suffer for their 
fidelity towards God, and their loyalty to 
the King, He mentions the case of an il- 
lustrious family that had been most wrong- 
fully and cruelly treated — the honoured 
lady of the house had been reduced to such 
distress, as not even to have a bed for her- 
self, except a poor one that she had suc- 
ceeded in borrowing. Her husband for the 
last four years had been denied access to 
his house, had been stript of his abundant 
income, and could not show himself amongst 
them. (Q. Thimbleby ?) " I have recently- 
returned home from a town that, after a 
siege of six months, capitulated to the ene- 
• (Q. Lincoln ?) and I lie concealed, 
as their troops are quartered here, so that 
very few even of the Catholics are aware of 
my return. 1 have lost all my sacred fur- 
niture ; ray well stored library has been 
plundered, or torn up, or burnt." 

This Rev. Father survived the date 
of this letter without seeing much relief 
afforded to his brethren, until 1 June, 1656. 

Q. V* as not F. William Berry, who 
quitted the Society from scrupulosity and 
the want of docility, in 1671, a near rela- 
tion of the above ? 

* Bbrdeot, John, admitted 20 June, 
1676; died at Watten, 7 November, 1684, 
set. 33. 

Beresfoud, William, (vere Clod) ; 
on 7 September, 1692, at, 22, began his 
noviceship at Watten. He was promoted 
to Priesthood in 1/03: the year lollowing 
1 find hini at Ghent, afior which time he 
eludes my investigation, 



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* Bbrgh Vanden, Christian, a native 
oJ Ghent, who died at St. Omer, 21 No- 
vember, 1680, let, 65. Rel. 41. His merits 
are honourably recorded in the Annual Let- 
ters. 

*Berode, James, died at Watteu, 17 
January, 1722, set. 43. Rel. 13. 

BEitTiE, Jerome. — Of this Rev. Father 
I regret to say I can collect no further de- 
tails, than that he died at Ghent, where he 
usually resided, on 28 February, 1739, set. 
66, Rel. 46. 

Bertlot, Matthew, joined the Order 
in 1669. set. 27. 

* Bertlot, Mark, died at Liege, 29 
June, 1701. 

Beswick, Edward, of London, born in 
1619. After 32 years of Missionary labour 
during which period he usually passed by 
the name of Sanders, he died at Worces- 
ter, in the month of March, 1680, set. 61, 
Rel. 40. 

Bettam, James, of Staffordshire. — This 
Professed Father died in England, 27 Oct. 
1669, aet. 65, Rel. 44, Prof. 29. 

Beven, John, born in Herefordshire, 
in 1611 ; at the age of 24 joined the 
Society j seven years later 1 meet him 
at Liege, after which time I lose stght of 
him entirely. 

A Scholastic of this name, born 23 June, 
1702, died at Liege in 1728, Soc. 4. 

Beveridge, John, of Derbyshi re.— In 
the Provincial List of 1642, he is described 
as being then 27 years old, of which he h ad 
passed & in the Order. 

Beveridge, Thomas, of Derbyshire, was 
admitted into St. John's House, Louvain, 
1 February, 1607, set. 24, and took the 
simple Vows of the Society, 3 February, 
1609. 

Bickley, Ralph. — In a letter of F. Hen. 
Garnet to F. Persons, dated 15 April, 1597, 
1 read " Rafe Bickly wrote to you to sue 
for him, that he may be admitted. He is a 
very singular man, I pray you obtain it : he 
hath sued these 12 years. He is with F. 
Weston, who desireth it greatly." God 
granted him this desire of his heart. In 
J603, he suffered banishment. Returning 
again to the Mission, he was at length ap- 
prehended and banished in 1618. Shortly 
after senectuie bona Audomari Jinem 
Vivendi fecit:' p. 378, Hist. Mori. 

* BiLLiNGE, George. — This temporal 
coadjutor died at Watten, 26 January, 
1739, set. 61, See. 10. 

BiLLiNGE, Richard. — A Rev. Father 
of this name, who had been stationed in his 
native county, Lancashire, at least 20 years 
before his death, died there in June, 1732, 
ajt. 58, Soc. 34. 

Another Father of this name was born 15 
February, 1713 ; admitted at Watten 13 
January, 1739; served the Lancashire 
Mission for a time, and died most piously 
after a long illness, at Crandon Park, 28 
February, 1769. 



N.B. He was uncle to the Rev. Charles 
Billinge, who for several years did credit to 
the Society and the Priestly Ministry 
but neglecting the exercises of prayer and' 
watchfulness, fell an easy victim to tempta- 
tion. Abandoning the Chaplaincy at 
Mosely, he read his recantation at Lich- 
field Cathedral, during the summer of 1767. 
After leading a most miserable life, this 
septuagenarian expired at Wolverhampton, 
and was buried on Easter Tuesday, 1805. 
After his decease it was discovered, that 
this credulous old Curate had obtained a 
Passport from the notorious Johanna 
Southcott ! ! ! 

* Birbeck, Edward, died at Ghent, 9 
January, 1724, set. 54, Rel. 32. 

Bird, John. — First saw the light at 
Bletchworlh, Surrey, 14 September, 1783 : 
studied and taught Humanities at Stony- 
hurst; entered the Novitiate at H odder, 26 
Sept. 1803 : was ordained Priest by Bp. 
Milner on 16 December 1808. On 9 Dec. 
1813 he commenced his missionary career 
at Preston, and how he discharged his duty, 
let the following Resolutions declare. 

At a Meeting held at the Catholic School, 
on Thursday, 7 August, 1834. John 
Gradwell, Esq. in the Chair. It was 
Resolved, 

1st.— That the cause of Religion has 
been greatly forwarded by the zealous, 
efficient and uncompromising manner, in 
which the Rev, John Bird has discharged 
his pastoral Duties, in the Town of Preston, 
during a period of 21 years, and that his 
uniform Conduct has left deeply imprinted 
on the hearts of the Catholics of Preston, 
the feelings of Gratitude and Veneration. 

2nd. — That a Subscription be entered 
into, for the purpose of purchasing an ap- 
propriate tribute of our gratitude and respect, 
and to recall to his memory, the friends he 
has left behind him at Preston. 

3rd.— That Mr, Segar, Mr. Edward 
Sidgreaves, Mr. Henry Chad wick, and Mr. 
Kay, do form a Committee for the purpose 
of making known the present resolutions, of 
collecting and receiving Subscriptions, and 
of calling another Meeting when they think 
fit. 

4th. — That Mr. Kay be appointed Trea- 
surer, and that he be requested to receive 
Subscriptions at his Shop. 

6th.— That the thanks of the Meeting, be 
given to the Chairman, for his conduct in 
the Chair. 

F. Bird was admitted to the Profession 
of the 4 vows 2 February, 1819^ On 29 
July, 1834, he left Preston to become 
Socius to the Provincial F. Richard Norris. 
In the previous year, viz, on Whitmonday, 
27 May, he had laid the first stone of St. 
Ignatius' Church there, with great solem- 
nity. Of its dedication by Bp. Briggs, on 
Th ursday, 5 May, 1836, a full Report may 
be seen in the Orthodox Journal of that 
month and year. 



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Bird was duly declared Provincial on 
24 June, 1838. He continued in that,. office 
until 14 September, 1841, when he was re- 
appointed to his old mission at Preston, and 
recently to the less laborious one of Ponte- 
fraci. 

BiRKET, Joseph.— This pious soul, al the 
age of 60, obtained admission into the Order, 
and for full 16 years did good service as a 
lay-brother, dying at Ghent, 25 December, 
1770. 

Blacfan, John. — For the account of his 
wonderful conversion to the Catholic Faith, 
at Cambridge, we refer our readers to p 
384 of More's Hist- He joined the Society 
in Spain, in 1593, and 9 years later his 
great merits procured him the honour of 
being numbered among the Professed Fa- 
thers. After discharging many Collegiate 
offices, and becoming the victim of envenom- 
ed and tyrannical iniquity, and after render- 
ing essential service to the Catholic cause, 
he passed quietly to everlasting rest in 
England, 13 January, 1641, set. 78. 

Blackfan, Thomas, born in Sussex, 
A. D. 1601 : at the age of 23 he commenced 
his Noviceship, and on 10 August, 1640, 
was numbered among the Professed Fathers. 
After 1642, his subsequent biography I am 
yet to learn. 

* Blackiston, Edward, died a Scho- 
lastic at Ghent 24 March, 1G40. 

Blackiston, Francis, born in the county 
of Durham, in the year 1617, joined the 
Society in 1637: was a close prisoner at 
Nottingham, in 1680. I think he died in 
England, 19 May, 1701. 

Blackiston, William, born 8 October, 
1698 : admitted intothe Order 31 December, 
1723, and to his Religious Profession 2d 
February, 1736 ; in the sequel was Rector 
at Watten, and Ghent, and died at Bruges, 
26 January, 1768. 

Blakwell, William, of Hampshire, 
died at St. Omer, May 10, 1699, Soc. 59, 
aet. 86. 

Blair, James, was born 15 January, 
1693. In F. 11. Hoskins' life of Brother 
Wm. Couche, this good Father is described 
as "■ sinyularh prudentia atque sanct'date 
Religiosus,'" After teaching Philosophy 
at Liege, he was employed for some years 
in the English Mission. Hecalied to Liege, 
to fill (he office of Professor of Holy Scrip- 
ture, he died there 28 May, 1759, aet. 66, 
Soc. 46. 

Blake, James, admitted at Watten, 1 
July, 1675 ; and such was his merit, as to 
be ranked amongst the Professed Fathers 
on 15 August, 1685. On 3 April, 1701, 
he was declared Provincial of his Brethren, 
Pnd continued in that office for nearly four 
years. He died at the good old age of 79, 
I think at Bromley Hall, near Colchester 
on 29 January, O.S. 1728. His Serinon 
on the Blessed Sacranient, delivered in the 
Chapel of the Spanish Ambassador, Corpus 



Christi day, 3 June, 1688, was reprinted ia 
1741. ^ 

Blount, Richard. — For the life of this 
discreet and meritorious Father, whose 
name must ever be in benediction with his 
brethren, we refer our readers to the 35th 
eh. of the ix Book, and the 24th ch. of x 
Book of F. More's History of the English 
Province, S. J. ; as also to Tanner's Lives 
of the Confessors of the Order. Descended 
of a good and ancient stock in Leicester- 
shire, he and his sister were the only mem- 
bers of a numerous family that embraced 
the Catholic Faith. Richard was sent to 
the University of Oxford, but quitted it 
for Rome, where he was ordained Priest. 
Towards the end of the year 1590, he ac- 
companied F. Persons to Seville, and short- 
ly after, with eleven other* Priests, sailed 
for England. He was not a Jesuit until 
some years later, as 1 find in a letter of F. 
Hen. Garnett, dated 8 September, 1598. 
" This day being the Nativity of our Lady, 
Richard Blunt hath made an end of his two 
years." F. Blount was then sent to the 
mission of Scotney Castle, the seat of the 
Darrells, of Sussex, and the narrative of his 
wonderful escape in the course of the fol- 
lowing winter, from the hands of the pur- 
suivants who had beset and occupied that 
mansion, has been recorded by Mr. Wm. 
Darell, who was living there at the time, 
and died in 1639. Appointed Superior of 
his brethren in England, under the govern- 
ment of "the wise, learned, virtuous, prac- 
tical, and to all grateful, F. Blount," the 
Members of the Order multiplied to nearly 
two hundred, including forty Professed Fa- 
thers ! Such an increase induced F. Mutius 
Vitelleschi, the 6ih General of the Society, 
in i6l9, to raise this Mission into a Vice- 
Province, and he named F. Blount Vice- 
Provincial ; and by Letters Patent of 21 
Jan. 1 623, the said General erected England 
into a Province of the Society, and declared 
F. Blount its first Provincial. After filling 
this last dignity for fifteen years, with the 
highest reputation for prudence, frankness, 
integrity, and moderation, he obtained leave 
to resign it. This truly good man died in 
London, 13 May, 1638, "prope octoge- 
narius,"a.Dd was buried with due honor in 
Queen Henrietta Maria's Chapel, which was 
then served by the Capuchin Friars. Mr. 
Dodd, p. 110, Vol. iii. Church Hist, might 
have done more justice to the memory of 
this Rev. Father. 

Bluett, John, of Staffordshire, was ad- 
mitted soon after his promotion to Holy 
Orders. The date of his solemn Piofession 

* Their names were John Cccl], Wm, Warrord' 
John Koberls. Oliver Alinau, James Younger, 
Thomas Kaloway, John Fixer, 11. Roch, Francis 
Loci<\vood. lUchard Uudloy, and John Brushford. 
All but the last ofTccted their landing in safety on 
the Knglish shores ; but Mr. Brushford was appre- 
hended in tlu! very act, and dicci in jail uiost pit^usty 
at Ihocnd of a twelvemonth. 



M 



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in the Society is S December, 1638. He 
died 12 March, 1678, ffit. 76, in the English 
Mission, where he had spent many years, 
*' insigni cum laude et animarum Jruclu," 
An Lit. 

Blundell, Francis. — Six of the name 
of BlundelL, and all natives of Lancashire, 
were members of the Society, Francis was 
born 13 August, 1717; joined the Body in 
1738, and sixteen years later was placed 
among the Professed Fathers. He died at 
Formby, in Lancashire, 1 February, 1779. 

Blundell, James, was admitted at Lou- 
vain 1 February, 1607, and made his sim- 
ple vows there 2 February, 1609. This 
amiable Priest was ordered to Spain ; but 
was taken ill during the journey, forced to 
stop at Vergara, in Asturia, and died in the 
early part of the summer, 1^09, aet. 28, Soc. 
p. 394, Mori. Hist. 

Blundell, Joseph, brother of Nicholas 
Blundell, of Crosby, Esq. was born 9 May, 
1686 ; served Spinkhill Mission, in Derby- 
shire ; died at Watten, 27 July, 1759, Soc. 
5'6. 

Blundell, Nicholas, eldest son of Wm. 
Blundell, of Crosby, Esq. by Ann, daughter 
of Sir Thomas Haggerston, Bart. Heir to 
a very considerable estate, he preferred 
the Institute of St. Ignatius to its enjoy- 
ment. For the last nine years of his life he 
was Prefect of St. Omer's College — a pain- 
ful, but meritorious office — and he executed 
it in such a manner as to gain the approba- 
tion of his Superiors, and give satisfaction 
to the Scholars. He died at St. Omer, 20 
December, 1680, set. 40, Soc. 18. 

Blundell, Richard, nephew to FF. 
Richard and Thomas Barton, arrived at the 
English College in Rome, in November, 
1645, to prosecute his higher studies. Af- 
ter defending a course of Philosophy with 
great applause, he was struck with his last 
illness 22 July, 1649. He had long peti- 
tioned to be admitted into the Society : his 
wish was granted, and he died most happily 
on 7 August that year, " cum summo om- 
nium luctu suique desiderio." 

Blundell, Thomas, admitted in 1667 : 
died in the mission of his native county, 7 
June, 1702. 

Blyde, Benjamin. — This temporal coad- 
jutor died in June, 1783, set. 56, Soc. 29. 

Blyde, John, this brother died in Der- 
byshire, 12 May, 1787, set. 72, Rel. 27. 

Blyde, Ignatius. — This good Father, 
after serving the English Mission, retired to 
Liege, where he fiaished his course 1 Sep- 
tember, 1788. set. 68, Soc. 32. 

Blyde, Joseph, this brother was born 
29 March, 1725 ; admitted at the age of 30 ; 
died at Wardour, 3 November, 1792. 

BoARMAN, John, of Maryland, entered 
th^ Society in 1762. Without much pre- 
tensions to talents, he proved a most diligent 
and valuable missionary, in his own coun- 
try, where God called him to himself in 
1797, set 54. 



Eodenham, John, second son of John 
Bodenham, of Rotherwas, £sq., by his 
wife Mai y CTrinder) consecrated himself 
to God in the Society, on 29 July, 1709, 
and was enrolled among its Professed Fa- 
thers on 15 August, 1726. For this hand- 
ful of gleanings (the imperfections and de- 
ficiences of which I have cause every step to 
regret) I can only collect, that after resid- 
ing as Chaplain at Courtfield. and filling the 
office of Rector of his BB. in the College of 
St. Francis Xavier, he was recalled from the 
mission to govern theHouseat Watten. In 
a fragment of a journal formerly kept at 
Watten, I read that he was declared Rec- 
tor there 15 September, 1740. But he was 
not permitted to continue much more than a 
year in that capacity. His services were re- 
quired at Croxteth, where he died 29 Oct- 
ober, 1750, set. 60, and was buried at Sefton 

BoELMANS, Lambe?.t, a lay-brother, who 
died in England, 25 April, 1690, ffit. 41, 
Rel. IS. 

BoLiEN, James, a lay-brother, was ad- 
mitted 24 July, 1690, set. 40; further de- 
tails I cannot discover. 

BoLBET, Roger, of Staffordshire. — After 
ten years spent in the Society, he fell a mar- 
tyr of charity 2 September, 1572, in admin- 
istering the comforts of religion to the in- 
fected, at Douay. He died with the name 
of Jesus on his lips. In grateful veneration 
of his zeal and charity, the Inhabitants 
deemed it Proper to erect a monument to 
his memory, p. 21 Mori Hist, 

BoLNY. Richard, this lay-brother died at 
Liege 29 June, 1685, ffit. 25, Rel. 7. 

BoLTON, John, born 22 October, 1742, 
admitted into the Order in 1761. Soon af- 
ter his promotion to Priesthood he repaired 
to Maryland, where he ended his days 9 
September, 1809.t 

Bosa Voglia, John. — His true name was 
Hodges. All that I can learn of him is, that 
he died in England, in 1653. 

Boone, Edward, died at Danby in 
Yorkshire, 22 August, 1785, ffit. 51, Soc. 
29. In a letter of F. John Thorpe to a friend, 
he says how much he regrets his death, and 
adds " I always had much esteem and affec- 
tion for Mr. Edward Boone's virtues and 
amiable qualities." 

Boone, John, born in Maryland, 18 April 
1735; entered the Novitiate in 1756. He 
died in the mission of his native country, in 
the course of the year 1795. 

Boone. Joseph, 'I am informed, was cousin 
to F. John B. ; entered the Novitiate with 
him, and died 19 March, 1807, ffit. 73. 

Booth, Charles, ( brother to James 
Booth, "the father of the modern 
practice of conveyancing," as Mr. C. 
Butler expresses it, p. 331, vol. ii. Hist. 
Mem. of Engl. Cath.) was born 8th Sept. 

tA Letter from Bp. Carroll announcing F. Bolton's 
death to Rev. C. Plowden, says " though he was 
not a mau of learning, he achieved much good by 
his zeal and piety." 



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1707 ; became a Novice in 1724, and a Pro- 
fessed Father 2d February, 1743. After 
serving the English mission, he was appoin- 
ted Penitentiary at Loretto : then was se- 
lected tutor for Henry, eighth Lord Arundell, 
and in 1762, was declared Rector of the 
English College at Rome. From this su- 
periority he was removed, by order of Pope 
element XIII. for receiving the unfortunate 
Pretender, Charles Edward, who visited the 
College shortly after the death of his father 
James (HI.) who had died at Rome, 1st 
January, 1766, aged 77 years, 6 months 
and 11 days.* As this reception was 
2;rossly misrepresentedat the time, it may in- 
terest the reader to be acquainted with the 
details from the evidence of an eye.»witnes3, 
and a gentleman of unquestionable credit 
and accuracy, the Rev. John Thorpe. 

'* This is to acquaint you with the plain true 
matter of fact, which public intelligence has 
enormously disfigured with falsities. A 
great personage, who came to Rome in 
January, soon after the death of his virtuous 
Father, and who has ever since been distin- 
guished by a noble conduct, in which no one 
has found a subject of reproach, on Easter 
Sunday evening (March 30) signfied an 
inclination of making a visit on the next 
morning to the English College, if no diffi- 
culty should he objected. He particularly 
expressed this condition', being very far 
from shewing any kind of superiority that 
in the present circumstances might displease. 
His intention was communicated to the Col- 
lege, where every one received the inti- 
mation as an honour done to the Hotise and 
whole community ; no one suspected that 
there could be any difficulty in admitting a 
visit from \he Son, after they had constantly 
shown so many marks of respect to the 
Father ; and no prohibition from the Gov- 
ernment had ever been notified to any sub- 
jects of the three kingdoms, who are settled 
here. Accordingly on Easter Monday, he 
came with three or four gentlemen, and his 
customary decent equipage. Some of the 
Fathers and Scholars were ready to receive 
him at the gate and conducted him up-stairs 
to the choir, from whence he heard a low 
Mass said by Mr. J. Lamb, and after it. the 
Exaudial and Prayer according to custom. 

* This Royal P:xile left, by his illustrious con- 
sort Maria Clementina Sobieski, but two chilfiren, 
1st. Charles Edward, born 31st December, 1720 ; 
obi it. Romae 31st January, 1788. 2nd. Henry 
B'cnfidict, born 26th March, 1725 created a cardinal 
3d July, 1747 ; died at Frascati Slat July, ISO/. To 
the immortal credit of his late Majesty George 
IV". a monument, bearing the following inscription, 
vras erected at his expense, in St.jPetcr's at Rome, 
to their united memory; 

Jaoobo Tertio, Jacobi Secundt 
Magn. Brit. Regis Filio 
Carolo Eduaroo 
Et Henrico Patrum Cardinalium Decano 
RiaiJE STIKP13 Stuardi^ Postkemis . 

An engraving of this beautiful work by Canova, 
may be seen p. 364, of the Penny Magazine, for 
September, IS40. 



As several desired to kiss his hand, he 
made a stop in the hall, and e lood whilst 
they did so. Then taking leave in a very 
courteous manner, he immediately went to 
his coach and returned to his own palace. 
No more was said or thought of the mat- 
ter, either at his Court or in the College. 
But the evil, or interested people, who are 
numerous in this city, soon spread many 
lies about : they said, that there had been 
a most solemn High Mass — that the Eng- 
lish had placed their guest on a magnifi- 
cent Throne — had crowned him with great 
pomp, and sworn an oath •/allegiance to 
him, and that a grand Te Deum had been 
performed on the occasion by a select band 
of music. How infamously lalse soever all 
these stories were, yet to the eternal shame 
of the city, persons where found so aban- 
doned, as to offer to swear to the particu- 
lars, of which they declared themselves to 
have been eye-witnesses I No prudent per- 
son ever imagined that stich false and ex- 
travagant reports would make any impres- 
sion at Court (Roman), and indeed no notice 
seemed to be taken of them at Monte Cavallo ; 
and the same great personage who had beea 
tt the English College on Monday, went on 
the two following days to the Irish Domi- 
nicans at St. Sisto, and Irish Francis- 
cans at St. Isidore's ; and on Friday in the 
same week, went in like manner to the 
Scots College. He heard Mass at each 
place, and no one apprehended that they 
had done amiss in receiving the visit he 
had been pleased to make. The Irish at 
St. Sisto scarce thought that they did 
enough for him, without giving him the 
most public marks of a distinctive honour; 
and hugged themselves for having thus far 
outdone their countrymen at St. Isidore, 
or the Scots and English Colleges. Monte 
Cavallo, that hitherto appeared regardless 
of what passed in the private communities 
of a few exiles, began to complain, that its 
Sovereign, the Pope, had been insulted in 
the Houses, and by the persons, who are 
maintained by his liberality. The Cardi- 
nals were very uneasy, and some of thent 
urged his Holiness to punish the offenders. 
Accordingly exact informations were 
gathered of all that had passed, and the four 
Superiors were particularly examined in re- 
gard of what had been done in their respec- 
tive Houses. The Pope was much dis- 
pleased, and two or three Cardinals irritated 
liim more. The Secretary of Stale would 
have accommodated matters, with the satis- 
faction of his Holiness, but his displeasure 
was increased by those who were unwilling 
to see it abated. Punishment became un- 
avoidable. Accordingly, in the evening on 
Tuesday, the 8lh inst. (April) four days 
after the visit made to the Scots College, 
orders were sent for the Superiors of the 
four Houses to be deposed from their office, 
and go out of Rome. The Prior of the 
Irish Dominicans, and the Guardian of 



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the Franciscans went off next raoining, 
the first to Clvita Vecchia, the other to Ca- 
pranica. On Thursday, the 10th, the Eng- 
lish Rector (F. Booth,) departed for Terni, 
and old Abbe Cozzi went away to Tivoli 
on the morning following, notwithstanding 
»H the intercession which Cardinal Albani, 
Protector of the College, could njake, either 
to obtain a reprieve, or leave for the old 
nan to go to his rineyard near Marino, A 
proposal is also said to have been made, for 
punishing the Scholars of the two Colleges, 
but it was rejected. On the same occasion 
Abb6^ Grant, who was present and active 
in the yisit paid to his countrymen, vras 
summoned before the Governor, who read to 
hira an order of Court, whereby he was for- 
bid to approach the Palace, either alone, 
or as a compaaion of others, with some me- 
naces that his pensions, which he has here, 
amounting to about 20 Roman crowns per 
month, would be taken from him; but the 
nephews of his Holiness have somuch iste- 
jested themselves in his favo?, that he is vs-ith 
out any further apprehension. There is how- 
ever no likelihood of the b?nished Superiors 
returning so soon as was once supposed, and 
perhaps they will never be allowed to come 
back, unless circumstances change raore 
than can be expected from the present dis- 
positions. F. Hothersal is appointed Rec- 
tor of the English College, with orders to- 
make no mention of the great personage in 
the domestic, or any other public prayers 
whatever, nor to permit his picture, or any 
other mark of distinction, to be placed in 
the Church upon any occasion whatever. 
Various are the conjectures of all these 
snexpecfed vigorous proceedings, which 
give great uneasiness to many, and may 
perhaps occasion sonoo trouble to Catholics 
in England, even under a mild Govern- 
ment. " 

F. Booth found in his former pupil, 
(Lord Arundell,) a friend and patron. The 
noble Lord invited him to IFarrfowr, and 
there the venerable priest finished his length- 
ened course, on 1 1 May, 1797. His mortal 
remains were deposited in his Lordship's 
family vault, below the sanctuary of the 
princely chapel. 

Booth, Ralph, born 21 April, 1721; 
joined the Society undei the name of Sims, 
(after studying Humanities at St. Omer, 
under F.Talbot), in 1737. He was Pro- 
fessed 2 February, 1755, and for some time 
was employed in the London mission. In 
1767, I find him Professor of Logic at 
Liege, where he died 19 November, 1780. 

♦ Bosch, Van Francis, died at St. 
Omer, 17 September, 1698, set. 30, Soc. 10. 

BosGRAvE, James, born at Goodmanston, 
in Dorsetshire, of a very worshipful 
house and parentage," as I read in a MS. 
of F. Persons. When yet a youth, he quit- 
ted England with the consent of his pious 
parents, studied a course of Rheiorick and 
I'bilosophy at Rome, and during 12 years. 



Germany and Poland witnessed wiih delight 
his increasing reputation as a professor 
of Philosophy, jNlatbemaiics, and of the 
Greek and Hebrew languages. F. More 
informs us that he had entered the Society 
17th November, 1561, and that he was or- 
dained Priest at Olmutz, m 1572. His de- 
clining liealth whilst at Wilna, induced his 
Superiors to order his return to England, 
in hopes that his native air might restore 
the tone of his constitution. His parents 
were still living. Scarcely had he reached 
the British shore in the summer of 1580, 
when he was arrested and immured within 
the Tower of London. His early and long 
absence from England, had almost made 
him forget his vernacular tongue. On 14 
November, 1581, he was arraigned at the 
King s Bench, with F. Edmund Campian, 
and others ; and on 20th of that month re- 
ceived sentence of death; but in conse- 
quence of interest made in his behalf by 
Stephen (Batiori) King of Poland, Queen 
Elizabeth consented not to dip her hands in 
liis blood, and at length was prevailed on 
to restore him to liberty, and he was ac- 
cordingly discharged from the Tower 
21 June, 15S5. Returning to Poland, 
this worthy confessor terminated his me- 
ritorious life by a most Christian death, at 
Calizzi, 27 October, 1621, or as another 
account sets forth, in 162.3, "septuagenario 
major.'' 

la a small Svo. vol. printed at Rheims, 
in 1583, by John Fogny, entitled, "A true 
Report of the late apprehension and im- 
prisonmerd of John Nichols, Minister at 
Roan, and his Confession and Answers 
made in the time of his durance there,'" 
1 find a letter of five pages, called 

*' The satisfaction of Mr. James Bos- 
grave, the (jodly Confessor of Christ, 
concerning his going to the Church of 
the Protestants at his first coming into 
England." It is highly commeridable fo.'- 
zeal, spirit, humility and eloquence. 

Boucher, Richard, born in America, 
\7 August, 1696, admitted into the Novice- 
ship at the age of 17 : for many years was 
Chaplain to the Chichester family, at Ar- 
lington, in the North of Devon, and there 
liis labours and life were ended on 18 Dec, 
1760. In the parish register of Arlington, 
I read as follows r — 

" 1760, Mr. Richard Boucher was buried 
December, 20th." 

Boucher, William, elder brother of 
Richard, born 14 July, 1682, joined the 
Order in 1700: fo.- several years lived at 
Aston, in Staffordshire, and at Lull worth, 
in Dorsetshire. He died 28 Sept. 1757. 

*BouiLLioN, Arnold, born 3 November 
1683; died at St. Omer, 1 June, 1740, Hel. 
29. 

*BouRDEAux, Nicholas, admitted into 
the Order 22 October 1707, died in Mary- 
land in July, 1718, ael 42, 

* BouRGiGNON, Giles, died at Watlen 



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10 September, 1673, ret. 35, at the end of 

his first year's Moviceship, but deserving 
the character in the An. Lit. of " vir Pro- 
bus ac sedulus." 

*BouRNiER, John, born at Salines, (Jura 
Department) 29 September, 1759; admitted 
at the Hodder Novitiate 7 September, 1806 ; 
for many years filled the situation of Cook 
and Sacristan, where every one esteemed 
and respected the good old man for his 
obliging disposition, religious simplicity, 
uniform and unaffected piety. He closed a 
lifa of usefulness and merit on the rooming 
of 10 January, 1838, by the death of the 
righteous. 

* BouvART, John B APT., died at Wat- 
ten, 6 August, 1724, set. 48, Rel. 18. 

* Bowes, Thomas, died at Rome in 1639. 
I suspect this is Mr. Thomas Bowes, who 
was twice arraigned at York, for not going 
to the Church, burnt through the ear and 
in the hand, and discharged in March, 1592. 

Bracy, Edmund. — This English Father 
died, I think, at Beoley, in Worcestershire, 
28 July, 1782, set. 73, Rel. 52, Prof. 33. 

* Bradford, Thomas, of Cambridge- 
shire, died at Ghent, 1 November, 1668, aet. 
36, Soc. 30. 

•Bradley, Joseph, borninMitton parish, 
December, 1791 ; and died most piously 
at Stonyhurst College, 16 February, 1837, 
Soc. 5. 

Bradley, Richard, of Lancashire : at 
the age of 18 gave himself up to God in 
the Society. Ordained Priest, he laboured 
with heroic zeal and courage ; when falling 
into the hands of the poursuivants, was 
committed a close prisoner at Manchester^ 
where he died of the jail fever, before his 
trial, 30 January, 1646, set. 41. 

* B?.AY, James, (alias Yeaiman) 
devout Scholastic died at Watten, 12 March, 
1686, in the first year of his Noviceship, 
set. 21. 

Breadnall, James, born 8 April, 1718 ; 
admitted at the age of 21 ; enrolled among 
the Professed Fathers eighteen years later ; 
died in the Maryland Mission 9 April, 1772. 

* Brebion, Francis, died at St. Omer, 
9 February, 1694. 

Brebion, Phillip, a native of Boulogne. 
This most trustworthy and able lay-brother 
died in the English College at Liege, 31 
July, 1703, set. 72, Rel. 50. 

•Brechtet, George, died at Rome, 10 
February, 1763. 

Brent, Henry, whose true name was 
jlspinal, born in Lancashire, on Lady-day, 
1715: entered the Novitiate of Watten at 
the age of 19, and rose to the rank of a Pro- 
fessed Father in 1752. This excellent 
divine and very discreet and virtuous Reli- 
gious, after cultivating the vineyard in the 
North of England, and for some time at 
Stapehill and Wardour, was fixed for tha 
last ten years of his life, at Irnham Hall. 
On a grave-stone in Irnham Church may be 
read the following inscription: — 

N 



To (he Memory of the Revd. 
Mr. Henry Brent, many years 
Chaplain to Lord and Lady Arundell, 
Who departed this life the 9th of 
January, 1784, aged 70. 

R. L P. 

"I hope to see the good things of the 
Lord, in the land of the living." Ps. xxvi. 

The reader will perceive that the epitaph 
has added a year to his age. 

Brent, Joseph, born 16 September, 
1726 ; admitted 7 September, 1745 ; died at 
Ghent, 13 July, 1763. 

Brent, Thomas, was brother, I think, 
to Henry B. born 21 October, 1719, joined 
the order at the age of 21 ; was professed 
in it 18 years later. After serving the mis- 
sion of Brouyh for several years, and Mosely, 
he retired to Liege College, where he died 
25 October, 1773. 

Bhett, Robert. — This good father, 
who made piety amiable by his serene and 
cheerful disposition, died at St. Omer, 3 
Nov. 1678, Rel. 24, having been enrolled 
among the Professed Fathers but 3 months 
before. 

Brewer, John, born at Fishwick, near 
Preston, 29 December, 1732 ; entered the 
Society at the age of 20. In June, 1764, 
commenced his missionary career at Od- 
stock, the seat of the Webbs^ near Salisbury, 
but at Michaelmas of the year ensuing, was 
removed to Shepton Mallett, where he con- 
tinued until his lamented death, i Septem- 
ber, 1797. See the Londcn Chronicle of 
that time. His precious remains were de- 
posited in Bristol Chapel ; the mission of 
which, with Shepton Mallett and Exeter, 
have cause to cherish his memory. 

Brewer,Thomas, younger brother ofJofen, 
but the faithful imitator of his pious exam- 
ple: he was born 19 June, 1743 ; admitted 
into the Society in 1761 ; for a short time 
was chaplain at Lydidte and Fazakerley, 
near Liverpool ; was thence appointed to the 
incumbency at Bristol, a mission created 
by the venerable F. Scudamore, (of whom 
more hereafter) : here he died 18 April, 
1787. 

Brewster, William. — All that I can 
collect of this worthy Father is, that he died 
incumbent at Norwich, on 31 October, 1758, 
Soc. 34, set. 58. 

Bbiant, Alexander, of Somersetshire : 
after studying at Harts Hall, Oxford, he 
went to Douay and Rheims, and was sent 
to the English mission in 1579. His Apos- 
tolic career was short indeed : for he was 
apprehended 28 April, 1581, and after en- 
during worse than cannibal torture in his 
prison, was led forth to martyrdom, which 
he suffered at Tyburn, 1 December, 1581, 
aet. 28. For two years before his death, he 
had determined to embrace the Institute of 
St. Ignatius. See his letter full of the di- 
vine spirit, which he addressed to the Fa- 
thers of the Soc. pp. 16- 17, of Tanner's 
Martyrs of the Order, and which Mr. Dodd 



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would have done well to insert in his His- 
tory. God granted-him in prison the ful- 
filment of his wishes. See Wood's Athense, 
p. 167, vol. i., and especially Bp. Challo- 
ner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests. 
Also Andrew's Review of Fox's Martyrs, 
vol. iii. 

Briant, Henry, of London. — In the 
Provincial Return of 1655, he is reported 
then to be 56 years old, of which he had 
spent 25 in the Society, and to have made 
his solemn Profession on 14 February, 
1643, He died in England 14 October, 
1658. 

Briant. Robert, of Somersetshire. — At 
the age of 37, was aggregated to the Order, 
and on the following year, was sent to the 
English mission. He was chiefly employed 
in the residence of St. Stanislaus, where I 
suspect, he finished his course, 29 March, 
3658, ffit. 70. 

Brinkhurst, George, admitted in 1694 : 
was ordained Priest in 1703 : died at St. 
Omer, 15 October, 1759, aat. 64. 

Brinkhurst, Thomas, sometimes called 
Meara, brother I believe, to George : joined 
the order in 1698 ; and died at St. Omer, 
26 August, 1728, set. 51. 

♦Bromfield, Laurence, died at St.Omer, 
date unknown. 

Brockholes, Charles, of a very respect- 
able family iu Lancashire. At the age of 
21, he renounced the world in favour of the 
Society of Jesus ; and in the sequel became 
the principal founder of the Wigan mission, 
which, I find, he served many years, as 
well as Blackroad. He died at Wigan, 
about half-past one o'clock p.m. on 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1759, set. 75. In a memorandum of 
the time I read : — 

" Mr. Charles Brockholes built a house 
and chapel at Wigan, out of his own ue- 
culium* The town did not contribute. 
Only one in the town gave him about £5. " 

Brock, John, (ver6 Morgan) a kinsman 
of F. Thomas Fitzherbert. In the infancy 
of the Maryland mission he devoted his 
energies to the Apostolic work of instruct- 
ing the poor natives. This good Father in 
an original letter now before me, of 3 May, 
1641, thus expresses himself: "I would 
rather, labouring in the conversion of these 
Indians, expire on the bare ground, de- 
prived of all human succour, and perishing 
with hunger, than once think of abandoning 
this holy work of God from the fear of 
want." Within five weeks after this mag- 
nanimous sentence, viz. 5 June, 1641, he 
sunk under the accumulation of fatigues 
and privations, and passed to immortality. 

Brooke, Auam, of a respectable family 
in London ; after studying for five years at 
Oxford, he retired abroad for conscience 
sake, and proceeding to Rome, incorporated 
himself with the Society in 1564, Lithua- 
nia, in the sequel, became the principal 
theatre of his services and religious vir- 
tues. After enlightening and edifying the 



said province, he died at Wilna, universally 
regretted, on 5 July, 1605, set. 63, Prof. 27. 

Brooke, Charles, born in Rack Street, 
Exeter, on 8 August, 1777. He was na- 
turely a strong child ; but in consequence 
of three successive falls, through the care- 
lessness of his nurse, ( as his mother has 
told me) he became very weak and delicate. 
In the eleventh year of his age he was sent 
to the Academy at Liege, which he entered 
on 16 July, 1788, and distinguished himself 
by his assiduity and piety. On 13 June, 
1802, he was promoted to Holy Orders, at 
Maynooth, by A. Bp. Troy ; and on the 
following year, viz. 26 September, 1803, he 
joyfully consecrated himself to God in the 
revived Society, at Hodder. He took his 
rank ss a Professed Father, 8 September, 
1S18. 

It would take a volume to detail his ser- 
vices to the College of Stonyhurst and to 
the English Province, as a Professor, as a 
Director of Studies, as a Superior of his 
Brethren, and as a Missionary also, (for he 
refounded the Enfield Mission to which he 
was appointed in 1817, and opened its pre- 
sent chapel, U July, 1819). After dis- 
charging to his flock every duty of the 
good Pastor, he was declared Provincial 15 
February, 1826. In the Spring of 1829 he 
held at Stonyhurst the 1st Provincial Cong, 
of the restored Society in England, from 
which great blessings accrued to the mem- 
bers. That invaluable Establishment, the 
Seminary, (or New House of Studies) he had 
the comfort of opening on 30 July, 1830. 
After governing his subjects in the most 
exemplary manner for upwards of 6 years, 
he resigned his office to F. Richard Norris, 
28 May, 1832, and was made Rector of the 
abovementioned Seminary. In June, 1838, 
he was released on account of declining 
health, from that Superiority, and has been 
since employed as Spiritual P'ather, both 
there and at Stonyhurst ; and as Director 
of the Studies, and Rector of the College of 
St. Aloysius. 

•Brooke, Edward, of Staffordshire : ad- 
mitted for a lay-brother at Louvain, 7 July, 
1607, set. 30. Two years later, immediate- 
ly on his reaching Valladolid, he was taken 
ill and survived but ninedavs, p. 394^ More's 
Hist.* 

N.B. Of Henri/ and Joseph Brooke, 1 
can recover no information, 

Brooke Ignatius, was long emjiloyed in 
the Miilland District of England. Retiring 
to St. Omer, he died there 10 March, 1751, 
set. 80. Soc. 52. 

Brooke, Leonard, born in Maryland, 
14 January, 1750, at the age of 19 entered 
the Novitiate : for some time was chaplain 
at Slindon ; but si)ent the greater part of 
his missionary life at LuUworth, where he 

* Edward Brooks, a Cleigyman of distinction," 
according to Dodd, p. S85, vol. ii. Church Hist, 
was admitted into the Society in 1611; but I can 
find no other account of him. 



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died 7 July, 1813. As a catechist he was 
justly admired. His mortal remains were 
deposited in the family vault of the Welds, 
below the chapel, with the following epitaph 
from the pea othis friend, the Rev. Charles 
Plowden : 

P 

A X ft, 
H S E 
Leonardus Brooke, dim 
Soc. Jesu Alumnus: annos araplius XX. 
Hujus sacrse ^dis Sacerdos et 
Custos, cui locum sepulturse inter 
Sues dedit Thomas Weld 
Pietatis causa. Decessit Non, Julii 
An. MDCCCXIII. 
R. I. P. 

Brooke, Mitthbw, admitted 24 July, 
1699. aged 27 ; died in Maryland in the 
year 1762. 

Brooke, Oswald, sometimes called 
Thomas Poulton, died in England, in 
1635. 

Brooke, Robert.— This worthy Father 
died in the Maryland mission 18 July, 1714, 
eet. 51, Soc. 30. 

Brooke, Thomas, on 10 June, 1701 , gave 
himself up to God in the Society : for many 
years served the mission of Tusraore : re- 
tiring to Ghent in an honoured old age, he 
meekly departed this life on 6 March, J761, 
set. 8?. 

* Broos, James, died at Watten, 1 Oc- 
tober, 1684. 

Brookesby, or Brunsley, William, 
for they are the same person, though F. 
More appears, in pp. 25 and 27, to make 
them distinct. In a letter of Dr. Allen, 
dated 3 August, 1580, to his dear friend, F. 
AgRZzari, at Rome, he mentions that this 
very noble and accomplished youth, who 
for some years had been educated at Douay, 
but on coming to his fortune had returned 
to England, had a strong inclination to the 
Society— that he was proceeding then to 
Rome with Mr. Thomas Kemerford, (after- 
wards the Martyr) for the purpose of enter- 
ing the Order. He was not admitted, how- 
ever, until 10 October, 1583, and died most 
holily. before the expiration of the two 
years' Noviceship, viz. 7 August, 1585, set. 
26. 

•Browning, John, died at St. Oraer, 8 
October, 1636. 

Brown, Andrew, admitted 30 July, 
1697 : died at St. Oraer, 26 April, 1703, 
St. 30. 

Brown, Charles. — I have seen his short 
but gratifying account of the etate of the 
English mission, S. J. It is dated " E. 
CoUe(jio Sti. Xaverii," 24 July, 1635. He 
survived 12 years, dying 5 April, 1047. 

I meet with another Father of this name 
a century later ; but can only discover that 
he died in 1737. 

♦Brown, Edward.— This promising 
Scholastic died at Liege 7 December, 1770, 



jet. 27 ; he had been admitted at Ghent, 15 
July, 1767. 

* Brown, George. — This Devonshire 
lay-brother, who devoted himself to the care 
of the sick, and was remarkable for his skill 
in pharmacy, died at Watten, 10 January, 
1670, set. 51, Soc. 30. His loss was deeply 
deplored by the surrounding poor. 

A Rev. Father of this name, and a native 
of Lancashire, retiring from the Gateshead 
mission, died at Pontoise, 4 May, 1735, 
set. 65, Soc. 47. 

Brown, Humphrey. — From F. Mat- 
thias Tanner's " Brevis Relafio,"' so often 
referred to in the foregoing pages, we collect 
that the family name of this blessed man 
was Evans — that he was a native of Car- 
narvonshire— that after an academical edu- 
cation at Oxford, he was reconciled to the 
Catholic Church at Paris, 1618— that after 
completing the higher studies at Roaie, and 
his promotion to the Priesthood, he was 
ordered to the English mission. The Pro- 
vincial's return of 1655 informs us, that he 
was then 58 years old, of which he had 
spent 30 in the Society, and 29 on the mis- 
sion, and that he had raade the Profession 
of the Four Vows on 6 August, 1637. 
Worn out with Apostolic labours, and with 
old age, and actually apoplectic and bed- 
ridden, the venerable man was suddenly 
pounced upon by a party of brutal soldiers, 
during the excitement occasioned by Oates' 
Plot, on Christmas Day, 1678. Finding 
this accused conspirator incapable of being 
removed, they reluctantly left him to die a 
natural death in his own chamber, which 
happened within three weeks later, viz. 14 
January, 1679. 

Brown, John : died in England 26 
June, 1683. 

Brown, Levinus, (the friend of Pope 
the Poet.) was born in Norfolk, 9 Septem- 
ber, 1671 : at the age of 20 was received an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome : 
admitted when in Priest^s orders, as a No- 
vice at Watten (as 1 find in a journal once 
kept there) on 4 July, 1698 ; and his great 
merits procured him the honour of being en- 
rolled among the Professed Fathers, on 31 
March, 1709. F. Brown passed through 
most of the Collegiate oflBees, and filled the 
situation of Provincial from 1 October, 
1733, to 20 July, 1737. In his old age this 
patriarch saw his brethren on 19 October, 
1762, despoiled of their property, and turn- 
ed adrift from their College of St. Omerby 
a tyrannical government. Too infirm to be 
removed, he was suffered to remain in the 
College, where his lamp of life was at length 
extinguished on 7 November, 1764, in the 
94tli year of his age, and 67th of Rel. In 
the " Lonr/ort Chronicle'' o( I December, 
1764, is an interesting article on the subject. 

F. Brown's translation of BossueCs 
Variations, &c., in two octavo vols. Lon- 
don, 1742. is noticed by Mr. C . Butler's 
Bookof the Roman Catholic Church, p. 164. 



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I believe F. John Joseph Johnston, of the 
Yen. O. S. B. who died full of years and 
merits, 9 July, 1723, was the first Transla- 
tor into English of Bossuet's "Exposition 
of R. C. Faith." I suspect that he was 
sdso the translator of The manner of 
performing the Novena, and the Devotion 
of Ten Fridays, in honour of St. Francis 
Xavier," 12rao. 1741. pp. 117 Was he 
not the author of " The Protestants' Trial 
hy the Written Word" 8vo. Brussels, 
1745, pp. 220? and reprinted in 1775, and 
1801, and 1843. 

* Brown, Samuel, see 

Brown, William, was uncle, brother, 
and nephew to the Viscount Montagues, and 
nephew to the Duchess of Feria (Dorraer), 
but much more ennobled by his virtues, es- 
pecially his profound humility, and his ve- 
hement love of Almighty God. For the 
edifying life of this devout temporal coadju- 
tor, see pp. 406-7-8-9 of F. More's Hist. 
In one circumstance, however, his narrative 
varies with the statement of the Annual 
Letters of 1613, that this noble youtli was 
converted, with Dr. Benjamin Carrier, and 
some others, by one of the Reverend Fa- 
thers at Louvain, It is strange to see how 
differently the date of his death is given. 
Drews places the event in 1617. More 
does not positively state it. Constable^ p. 
228 of his Specimen of Amendments pro- 
posed to Mr. Dodd, mistranslates More, 
and fixes it to the year 1633. But the 
truth is to be ascertained from the Annual 
Letters of 1637, which prove that he con- 
cluded his laborious and most pious life, 
after a short illness at Liege, on 20 
August, 1637, set. 39. Soc. 23. See also 
Floras Anglo Bavaricus. Lord Anthony 
Mountague, translated the life of St, Francis 
of Assisium by St. Bonaventure; who was 
F.C. that dedicated it to the Lady Wini- 
fred, Englefleld? 

^Another temporal coadjutor of this 
name died at St. Omer, 5 March, 1653. 

Bruerton, John, of Shropshire, was 
admitted in 1651, set. 18. I meet with him 
four years later, after which I lose sight of 
him altogether. 

* Bruneau, Joseph. Of this temporal 
coadjutor, who died shortly after the sup- 
pression of the Society, I can recover no 
particulars. Born 28 October, 1704 ; ad- 
mitted 9 September, 1721. 

Brunetti, Joseph, after studying Hu- 
manities at St. Oraer's College, entered the 
Novitiate at Watten, 7 September, 1689. I 
cannot follow up the course of his life, after 
taking his simple vows, two years later ; 
but he died at Rotterdam, 17 January, 
1715, set. 44. 

Bruning, Anthony, was most certainly 
employed in the English Mission in the 
years 1701 and 1703, and died 19 January, 
1704. 

Bruning, Anthony, was born 7 De- 
cember, 1716; joined the Society at the age 



of 17, and was admitted to the profession 
of the Four Vows 2 February, 1751. After 
teaching Philosophy, he was sent to the 
Mission, but was recalled to take the chair 
of Theology. His M.S. Treatises de Gra- 
tia, de Deo, de Trinitate, abundantly show 
how competent he was for that important 
office. This learned and holy man died at 
Liege, 8 August, 1776 ; he went off with- 
out any apparent pain, and with extraordi- 
nary tranquillity. 

Bruning, Francis. — This Scholastic 
died at Liege, 10 March, 1753, set. 21, 
Rel. 3. 

Bruning, George, brother of Anthony 
the eminent Theologian, at the age ofl8,'and 
in the year 1756, followed the example of 
his brother in adopting the pious institute 
of the Society. His first mission I believe 
was at Southend, near Soberton, Hants ; 
for several years afterwards he lived at 
East Hendred, Berks. His half sister Mary 
had married John Thomas Eyston. PvC- 
tiring to Isleworth, he died there 3 June, 
1802, set. 64. He published " The Divine 
(Economy of Christ," 8vO' London, 1791, 
pp. 139. Five years later he sent to the 
press a 12mo tract of 43 pages, " Remarks 
on the Rev. Joseph Berington's Examina- 
tion of Events termed miraculous in 
Italy." 

* Bruynnick, Laurence, This tem- 
poral coadjutor died at Watten, 17th April, 
1655, set. 69. Soc. 4a. 

Buckley, Robert, of Wales, was ap- 
pointed to the Penitentiary, at St. Peter's, 
in October. 1672; died at Rome, 6 July, 
(another account says 27 July,) 1680, set. 
61, Soc. 40. 

Bucks, Robert, All that I can glean of 
this Father is, ^hat he died in England, 10 
February, 1648. 

Buller, John, born 25 February, 1746., 
He had actually completed the study of 
Philosophy and two years of Theology, 
before he embraced the Institute of St, 
Ignatius. For many years he sewed the 
Mission of Little Crosby and Iiice, near 
Liverpool, where he died 14 December, 
1811. 

BuLMER, William, died in England. 21 
October, 1689, 

Burdett, Anthony, of Yorkshire. At 
the age of 32, this pious soul, thirsting 
after religious perfection, placed himself 
among the Novices. Filled with the spirit 
of the Institute, he was promoted to the 
rank of a Professed Father, 1 July, 1653. 
He died in England, 14 September, four 
years later, aged 47, and is commended in 
the Annual Letters, for his ability and suc- 
cess in Controversy. 

* Burdett, Lewis, ( alias Hussey^'} 
This promising Scholastic died in 1733, 
set. 22, Soc. 4. 

Burnett, Thomas, made his simple 
Vows at Watten, 8 September, 1683, set. 
22 : was professed 26 July, 1699 ; became 



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Chaplain at Broughton Hall, whera, I 
think, he died, 1 September, 1727. 

Burton, Christopher ; after serving 
the Lytham Mission, retired to Watten, 
where he departed this life, ^3 July, 1744*, 
set. 73, Rel. 51, Prof. 33. 

Burton, Edward, of London. At the 
age of 25 he became a Novice of Louvain, 
and fifteen years later, viz, about l624i, 
died in England, at the early age of 40. His 
translation of Pere Verou's " Defeat of 
Henche, the Calvinistic Minister j" was 
printed at Douay, 1616. 

Burton, Johw, recalled from the mis- 
sion to be Minister at Watten, he died 
there 22 August, 1638, Soc. 5. According 
to the Annual Letters, he was endeared to 
all who knew hira, of very engaging man- 
ners, most humble in his demeanour, and 
conspicuous for his obliging disposition and 
charity, 

BuHSTARD, orBusTHARD, JoHV, of Ox- 
fordshire. F. More, p. 21, Hist, informs us, 
that in the 19th year of his age he was ad- 
mitted at Louvain, Appointed Professor 
of Philosophy at Douay, whilst his friends 
conceived the highest expectations from his 
brilliant talents, he was hurried to an un- 
timely grave in the 27th year of his age, in 
the year 1576. 

Busby, George, was of a good family 
in Oxfordshire, but actually born at Brus- 
sells. Apprehended at Mr. Powtrall's, 
West Allam. by Justice Gilbert, (who re- 
ceived the <^100 reward for this service ) on 
16 March, 16SI, as an accomplice in Oates' 
Plot, he was condemned at Derby for his 
priestly character, 25 July following, but 
was discharged on producing a pardon from 
the King. He died at St, Oraer's College, 
25 July, 1695. 

Busby, John, admitted into the Society 
at the age of 20 ; Professed 2 February, 
1717 ; for a time served the mission of 
Brinn, near Ashton ; was Rector of the Col- 
lege of Sr. Francis Xavier from 8 May, 
1734, to November, 1739. Died 20 July, 
1743, 3Bt. 64, Soc. 44. 

Busby, Richard, died in England, 8 
April, 1648. 

Busby, Thomas. — This venerable Father, 
whilst Rector of his Brethren in the Col- 
lege of the B. V. Mary, is described as 
excelling in the art of government, and a 
model of the missionary life. Retiring to 
Liege, he there rested from all his labours 
on 25 April, 1750, at the advanced age of 
94, Soc. 75, Prof. 57. 

Busby, William, was admitted 7 Sep- 
tember, 16G7, ait. 23 ; but 1 have no means 
ol" pursuing his history. 

Byerly, Charles, born in Leicester- 
shire, 2 May, 1718 : joined the Order in 
1738 ; ended his days in 179G, at Watten, 
where he had first imbibed the primitive 
spirit of the Society. 

^Cadron, Francis. — This Belgic lay- 



brother died in the English College at 
Liege, 10 February, 1778, aat. 50, Soc. 24. 

Caldwell, William. — His name occurs 
p. 290, of More's History, amongst the 
many English members of the Society who 
died in Spain, in the early part of the 17th 
century. 

*Caels, Francis, a temporal coadjutor 
who died at Watten 23 August, 1711, 

Callaway, or Cataway, Henry, ad- 
mitted 1693, was studying Theology at 
Pont-a-Mousson, in 1701 ; three years later 

I find him employed in the Maryland Mis- 
sion ; but he died at Watten 13 March, 
1718, set. 43. 

Campian, Charles, of London* Whilst 
on the English mission, he passed by the 
name of Wilkinson. He was a man of 
considerable literary attainments. His 
death occurred at Rome, whilst Rector of 
the English College in that city, 14 De- 
cember, 1686, set. 64, Soc. 43. 

Campian, Edmund, was born in London 
25 January, 1540, the actual year of 
the foundation of the Society of Jesus, 
of which he was destined to become a 
brilliant luminary. His parents were honest 
Catholics, but straitened in circumstances. 
After distinguishing himself as a Scholar 
of Christ's Hospital, Edmund was recom- 
mended to Sir Thomas White, as a fit 
subject for admission into his recent and 
most noble Foundation of St. John's Col- 
lege, Oxford. The worthy founder dying 

II February, 1566, set. 72, his remains 
were brought from London to the College 
Chapel for interment, and Campian was 
selected to pronounce the Latin Funeral 
Oration before the Members of the Uni- 
versity ; and he acquitted himself of the 
task to the satisfaction of his hearers. On 
two or tiiree occasions he was also appoint- 
ed to address Queen Elizabeth, at Wood- 
stock or Oxford, and such was the opinion 
that Sir William Cecyll, afterwards Lord 
Burghley, (for so he spells his name) con- 
ceived of his pregnancy of wit, erudition 
and good taste, that he pronounced him to 
be one of the Diamonds of England. 

But amidst all the applause that he re- 
ceived, and the fair prospects of fortune 
and fame that glittered before him, Cam- 
pian's heart was any thing but happy. 
The reading of the works of the primitive 
Fathers contributed to increase his per- 
plexity : his worldly friends witnessed with 
pain his growing anguish and inward con- 
flict, and to bind him irrevocably to the 
new religion, by dint of importunity pre- 
vailed upon him to receive from Dr. Richard 
Cheyney,* Bishop of Gloucester, the or- 

* I have heard it asserted, that the beautiful and 
persuasive lett«r addressed by Campian to this 
Bishop, I November, 1571, produced his conver- 
sion. But with deference;! submit that such aa 
occurrence could hardly have escaped the know- 
ledge of F. Robert Persons, who says, in p. 243« 
of his "Review of Ten Publiko JJispulatittu,' 



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der of Deaeon. This proceeding formed 
the climax to his misery. So bitter was 
his remorse that he hastened to throw up 
his fellowship, quitted the University ou 
1 August, 1569, and went with his friend 
Richard Stanihurst (son of the James 
Stanihurst who had refused, for conscience 
sake, the Chancellorship of Ireland) to 
Dublin, which he reached on the 24th day 
of the same month and year. During 
his residence there, he wrote bis classical 
discourse "De Juvene Academico*' as also 
is English, The History of Ireiand,'' 
the manuscript copy of which reposed in 
the Cotton Library, until Sir James Ware 
published it in folio. Dublin, A.D. 1633.» 
Threatened with arrest by the Queen's 
Commissioners, he fled from Dublin to 
Turvey, the seat of Sir Christojjher Barn- 
well ; but finding that diligent search was 
making for him, he crossed over to Eng- 
land, disguised as the servant of 3Jel- 
ehior Hussey, then the Steward to the 
Earl of Kildare. In the summer of 1571, 
he arrived at Douay College, where he 
spent somewhat more than a twelvemonth 
in close application to Theological stu- 
dies. Proceeding to Rome early in 1573, 
he obtained admission into the Society of 
Jesus, and was sent to Brian, or Brunn, to 
pass the Noviceship. In the sequel, the 
«^ity of Prague became the special theatre 
of the display of his eminent virtues and 
splendid abilities. There he taught Rhe- 
toric and Philosophy with unprecedented 
admiration ; there he formed the minds of 
youth to the exercise of piety and divine 
love ; there he was promoted to Holy Or- 
ders, and sought in the duties of the mi- 
nistry to enkiodle that fire which Jesus 
eame to cast upon the earth. In the mean- 
while, Dr. Alien was soliciting Pope Gre- 
gory XIII. to order some English Fa- 
thers of the Society to the mission of 
their native country. Campian was named 
and approved, and received a summons 
from the fourth General of the Order, F. 
Everard Mercurian, to repair to Rome 
without delay. On this occasion a remark- 
able circumstance occurred, which 1 will 
give in the very words ofF. Persons: — 
"I had my relation of a learned grave 
Spanish Father, called Franciscus u4nto- 
nius, who was then Confessarius to the 
Empress, that afterwards died in Spain: 
the very same night that this news arrived 
at Prague, a certain virtuous young man of 

♦ Keprinted in Dublin, in 1809. N.B. A M.S. 
eopy of 1571, was given by Henry Duke of Norfolk 
in 1678. to the Library of the College »f Arms, 
London, and is numbered xxxvii. 



Itc. printed ki 1604, after mentioning his friend 
Campian's eloquent epistle to the Bishop "From 
aZuingliaahe became a Lutheran, and so lyved 
and died in the late Queene's days," viz. 25th 
April, 1575. See also pages 247-8. of Strype's His. 
torj of the Refgrraatioa uuder Queen Elizabeth. 



the Society, of the country of Silesia, an»J 
of opinion of much sanctity with all of 
that College, rising before his fellows nexD 
morning, went to F. Campian's chamber 
door, and wrote over it 

Campianus Martyr, 
whereof all men there did wonder, and 
make great reflection thereof, and, as I re- 
member, the said Father told me, his Su- 
periors had given him a penance for doing 
it." 

On Holy Saturday, 3 April, 1580, the 
zealous Father arrived at Rome, and on the 
18 quitted for his mission with his col- 
league F. Persons, The General of the- 
Order severely forbade them both, by word 
and writing, says F. Bartoii, ( c. 6 and 
8. lib. 2, Inglhiterra) to interfere, directly 
or indirectly, with any state or political 
concern : they were neither to treat such 
subjects, or listen to them. 

Father C. sailed from Calais on 24 
June, 1580, and reached Dover the next 
morning. For the details of his apostolie 
course, his apprehension on 16 July, 
1581, and ot his glorious death on Friday^ 
1 December following, we refer our rea- 
ders to F. More's History, Book iii., to his 
Life by F. Matthias Tanner, to p. 183, of 
Southwell's Bibliotheca, and particularly 
to the Memoirs of that lover of truth,^ 
Bishop Challoner, and Andrews' Exami- 
nation of Fox's Martyrs, vol. iii. p. 495. 
We learn from Persons' letter, dated 26 
May, 1589, that the saintly Lewis de 
Granada wrote in Spanish the Life of F. 
Campian. Dr. Stapleton, in Prompt MoraL 
6th Sunday after Easter, and 9th Sunday 
after Pent, speaks of him in glowing lan- 
guage. 

The works of F. Campian were edited 
first at Paris, in a small octavo vol. A.D. 
1618, pp. 476. The last one hundred 
pages detailing the history ot his deatha. 
were translated into Latin from the Italian^ 
by the learned Secular Priest, Robert 
Turner, His " Opuscula Selecta " were 
published in 12rao. at Antwerp, in 1631, 
pages 460. 

The Treatise " Decern Rationes " writ- 
ten in Lancashire, and privately printed 
at Lady Stonor's House, at Henley, has 
gone through numberless editions. Rich- 
ard Stock published an English Transla- 
tion in London, as early as 1606. 

Anthony Wood, p. 303, lib. ii. Hist, and 
Antiq. Oxon. Univ. honestly admits that 
Campian was '* Theologus apprime doc- 
tus,judicio subacto et eloquentia consuni' 
mala. 

In the Stonyhurst Library is a folio vol. 
of " Loci Communes Theologiei, said to 
have been written by F. Campian. See 
his Life by F. Paul Bombinus, S. J., an 
enlarged edition of which was published 
in octavo at Mantua, in 1620. 

Campian, Richard, of a distinguished 
Herefordshire family, admitted to the No-^ 



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ivitiale at the age of 23, and to his Religi- 
ous Profession on I May, 1632. After la- 
bouring diligently in the English vineyard 
for 36 years, his Lord called him up to 
receive his letribution, 9 July, 1661, 
SBt. 72. 

*Campia.n, Robert, (alias Wigmore.) — 
This pious youth died at Louvain, 7 May, 
1614, set. 23. 

Campian, William, joined the Society 
at the age of 25 : Professed in the Order 20 
August, 1640. After suffering iraprison- 
raent and chains in England for the Catho- 
lic Faith, he retired to Ghent, where he 
finished his course 28 September, 1665, ffit. 
66. We have from his pen an octavo voL 
*• On the Catholic Doctrine of Transub- 
stantiation, against Dr. John Co&in" 
afterwards Bishop of Durham. The book 
neither mentions the author, nor gives the 
date or place of printing, as Southwell ob- 
serves in the Bibliotheca, &c. 

Canell, James, admitted 7 September, 
1671. Soon after his Ordinations was sta- 
tioned in the Lancashire mission ; and it 
is evident from Miss Clare Gerard's codicil 
to her will, dated 3 April, 1696, that he 
" then continued at or near Wigan."' He 
probably remained pastor of the Faithful 
there, until his pious death 27 March, 1722, 
aet. 73. What relation was he to the Rev. 
Mother Mary Canell^ 6th Abbess of the 
Poor Clares at Dunkirk? She was born in 
the Isle of Man, and died 29 December, 
1704. 

Cansfield, Bkian. — This Confessor of 
Faith was a native of Lancashire. Whilst 
diligently attentive to the duties of a mis- 
sionary in Yorkshire, he was arrested at 
ihCiVery altar, and hurried away in his vest- 
ments to York jail. The privations and 
sufferings he there endured so impaired and 
undermined his constitution, that he died 
about a month after his enlargement viz. 
3 August, 1645, in York, ast. 65, Rel. 39. 

Ca.REW, George. I think of Irish Pa- 
rents, but born in Spain, and aggregated to 
the Neapolitan Province. bov several 
years wasCatechist to the British converts 
at Rome. Was living in 1792. 

Carne, Francis, entered the Society in 
1704 ; died in England prematurely 15 Oc- 
tober, 1715, ast. 29. 

Gary, Charles, (alias t^iavely). — This 
brother died at Liege, 24 May, 1686, eet. 
21, Rel. 4. 

Q. Was he not related to Benedict Cary, 
who twice admitted into the Society, and 
twice abandoning it, died an example of 
true repentance in 1676, as is set forth in 
the Annual Letters. 

Gary, FnANcrs, born in Devonshire, 
16 10 : at the age of 37 joined the Society ; 
for some time filled the chair of Philosophy 
at Liege, but died in Londoa 19 June, 
1665. 

Gary, John, of Suffolk : died at Ghent 
31 May, 1082, JBt. 04, Soc. 43. 



Gary, Thomas. — Perhaps brother of 
John C, for he was born in Suffolk three 
years later, but admitted with him into the 
Order. Recalled from the Mission to be 
Rector of St. Omer's College, he died of 
hernia, set. 51, leaving the character of 
*'Fir spectandas virtutis, et teneris juve- 
num animis ad omnem pietatemforman' 
dis natus." An Lit. 

Carpenter, Hermenegild, born in 
France ; but in early life became a member 
of the English Province of the Society. Af- 
ter serving the Missions of Brinn, of Liver- 
pool, and of Stapehill, he retired to Bury 
St. Edmunds, where he died 12 April, 1770, 
St. 67, ReL 49, Prof. 31. 

Carpenter, Peter, died at Ghent 28 
June, 1681. 1 suspect this is the person 
mentioned in Bradshaw's Letter to Thur- 
loe, 29 August, 16S4. " The ship with 
masts departed hence (Hamburgh) for Lon- 
don, two days since ; I am this day told, 
that Carpenter, the Jesuite, is gone private- 
ly in her. ' Thurloe's State Papers, vol. 
ii. p. 67L 

Carrington, John, died at Watten, 
18 March, 1689. 

Carroll, John. — In thinking of thig 
Apostle of the United States we are re- 
minded of the beginning of the 60th chap- 
ter of Ecclesiasticus " Sacerdos magnus^ 
qui in vita sua suffulsit domum et in 
diebus suis corroboravit Templum. Tern- 
pli eliam Altitudo ab ipso fundata cat.'* 

Dr. J. Carroll was born in Maryland 8 Jan. 
1736. His family had emigrated from Ire- 
land to America, in the reign of James II 
One of his Ancestors was Secretary to Lord 
Powis, a leading minister in the cabi- 
net of that unfortunate Sovereign. Re- 
marking to his Lordship one day, that he 
was happy to find that public affairs and his 
Majesty's service were proceeding so pros- 
perously, the Secretary received for an- 
swer, "You are quite in the wrong : affairs 
are going on very badly ; the king is very 
ill advised. ' After pausing a few minutes 
his Lordship thus addressed Mr. Carroll, 
"Young man, I have a regard for you, and 
would be glad to do you a service. Take 
ray advice : great changes are at hand : go 
out to Maryland : I will speak to Lord 
Baltimore in your favour." He did so ; 
obtained some government situations, with 
considerable grants of land, and left hig 
family amongst the largest proprietors of 
the Union. (This anecdote came from the 
late very venerable representative of the 
family, Charles Carroll, of Carrolstown, the 
last surviving asserterof American indepen- 
dence, who died 15 November, 1832, at the 
advaoced age of 96. As a mark of respect 
to his memory, the offices of the United 
States Government at Washington, were 
closed the next day, by order of the Presi- 
dent Andrew Jackson.) At an early iigu 
John was scut to St. Omer's College for 
education- After distinguishin^j himself 



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amongst his companions by doeile piety and 
solid abilities, he entered lha Noviiiate at 
the end of Rhetoric, in 1753. He was soon 
appointed to teach Philosophy, and then 
Divinity ; and for his merits was promoted 
to the rank of a Professed Father 2 Fe- 
bruary, 1771. Shortly after the fatal 
suppression of his Order, he returned to 
his native country. It is a remarkable 
fact, that he received from the Propa- 
ganda as early as 9 June, 1784j, amongst 
other ample Faculties, the power of admi- 
nistering the sacrament of Confirmation 
throughout the United States. By the 
Bull of Pope Pius VI. bearing date 6 
November, 1789, Baltimore was erected in- 
to an episcopal see, and Dr. John Carroll 
(who had been previously recommended 
for its mitre by 24 out of 26 Priests then 
living in America) was confirmed its first 
Bishop. To use the words of the Holy 
Father, " nos ejusdem Joannis Carroll 
fidem, prudentiam, pietatem ac zelum 
perspectam habentes, quoniam magna 
cum laude, postremis his annis, nostra 
mandate, spiriluaii regimini prcefuit 
eundem propter ea in ApnstoliccB potes- 
tatis plenitudine ejusdem Baltimorensis 
Episcopum et Pastorem declaramus, 
creamus, prcejicimus, et constituimus," 
The ceremony of his consecration was 
performed in Lullworth Chapel, Dorset, 
by Bishop Walmesley, on 15 August, 
1790. The pleasing poi trait of the new 
Prelate, painted by Peat, was engraved 
by Lovelace, the year above mentioned. 

Dr. Carroll embarked at Gravesend, on 
8 October, 1790, and atter a disagree- 
able passage, reached his destination on 
7 December. His first concern was to 
have an Episcopal Seminary, to which 
Mr. Nagot of the Sulpice at Paris, lent 
important assistance. Under his amiable 
and enlightened government, such was 
the wonderful increase of Catholicity, that 
Pope Pius VII. issued a Bull on 8 April, 
1808, erecting Baltimore, into an Arch- 
bishopric, and creating as its suffragan 
Sees, New York, Philadelphia, Boston,* 
and Bardstown. ^ At length, full of days 
and merits, the la'mp of life of this foun- 
der of the American Hierarchy, so beloved 
of God and of men, quietly went out at 
Baltimore, on Sunday 3 December, 1815, 
in the 80th year of his age. See his Biogra- 
phical Sketch, p. 71, and the narrative of 
his splendid funeral, p. 118, vol. iv. of 
Andrews' Orthodox Journal. 

* This town had been the focus of intolerance 
and bigotry. The Congress assembled there pro- 
claimed, 9th September, 1773. that " the late act 
establishing the Catholic Religion In Canada, is 
dangerous in an extreme degree to the Protestant 
Religion, and to the Civil Rights and Liberties of 
America.''^ Even the Constitutions of New Jersey 
(Section 19th). of North Carolina (Sect. 32) and of 
South Carolina (Section 12 and 13) as late as the 
year, 1790, denied equal rights of citizenship to all 
that were not of the Protestant Religion." 



We have from the pen of this talented 
and zealous ecclesiastic, an answer to the 
Rev, Charles Wharton (his near relation,) 
printed at Annapolis, in 1785, and reprinted 
at Worcester the same year, (octavo, pages 
120) — an excellent work. The unfortunate 
Wharton (born 25 July, 1748, and admit- 
ted into the Society, in 1766) seduced by 
vanity and pleasure, deserted the service of 
virtue and religion, and pitifully and basely 
reviled and slandered his former creed and 
profession, which censured and reprobated 
his misconduct. In a letter of F.John 
Thorpe to the Rev. Charles Plowden, dated 
from Rome 17 February, 1787, is the fol- 
lowing just observation:— "Mr. Wharton's 
present condition is like what has common- 
ly been the end of Aposta.tes — a wife — » 
wretchedness — obscurity — and remorse 
without repentance." The niiserabla man 
married a second wife. In a letter dated 
Whitmarsh, near Washington, 30 May, 
1832, he is thus mentioned. *' Poor old 
Mr. Wharton is continually tortured by his 
conscience. His cook at the parsonage 
house, near Trenton, a good Irish Catholic, 
fell dangerously sick, and as no priest could 
be procured, Wharton said to her, 'Al- 
though I am a Parson, I am also a Catholic 
Priest, and can give you absolution in your 
case.' She made her confession to him, and 
he a bsolved her." Pere Grivel, the writer 
of the letter, had this account from Mr. 
Wharton's nephew, a good Catholic, and a 
Magistrate of Washington. Shortly after, 
this unhappy culprit was summoned before 
the awful tribunal of Christ. 

Bishop Carroll's " Pastoral Letters" were 
universally admired for their sterling sense, 
zeal, and tender piety. 

Carroll, James, born 5 August, 1717 ; 
made his simple vows at Watten, 8 Septem- 
ber, 1743: died in Maryland, 12 November, 
1756. 

Carryl, Charles. This worthy Priest 
died the incumbent at Stapehill, 12 June, 
1745, set. 60, Soc. 41. A grave-stone in 
the nave of Hampreston Church, is inscribed 
" Here lyeth the body of Mr. Charles Car- 
ryll, S.J. who died the 12th day of June, 
1745." 

Carryl, Richard ; brother, I believe, 
to the last mentioned, and his successor at 
Stapehill, where he died 18 February, 1750, 
O, S. eet. 53, Soc. S9 ; and was buried also 
in Hampreston Church. 

*Carter, Richard, born near Warring- 
ton : his mother was related to the Bluu- 
delis, of Ince. This humble religious, and 
useful temporal Coadjutor died at Liege, 27 
April, 1709, Soc 47, ^^plenus dierum et 
merit orum,'' An. Lit. 

*Carter, William, brother, I suspect, 
of Richard ; joined the Society four years 
later ; died at St. Omer, 22 September, 1687. 

Carteret, Edward ; born 26 June, 
1691; admitted at Wattea, 1709. After 
long serving the mission, he died in Eng- 
land, 15 June, 1753, 



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CAiiTEftET, Phillip, born 20 June, 
<694, and admitted into the Society with 
Edward, In the sequel he distinguished 
himself as a Theologian, and taught Divi- 
nity for some years. From the Rectorshi|) 
of Ghent he was called to fill the duties of 
Provincial 3 October, 1731, and died in 
that office, much respected and regretted, on 
28 March, 1756, in London. 

Carwell, Thomas, whosereal name was 
Thoroldf of an ancient stock in Lincoln- 
shire. After defending a course of Theology 
in the Roman College, and receiving Priest- 
hood, he retired to St. Andrews, 7 Septem- 
ber, 1633, to commence the Noviceship of 
the Society, and quitted Rome for Flanders, 
20 October, 1635. He was employed in 
teaching Philosophy and moral Divinity for 
some years ; and such were his merits that 
he was promoted to the rank of a professed 
Father, as early as 13 December, 1643. 
Sent to the English Mission, he spread far 
and near the sweet odour of J. C. by his 
exemplary life and apostolic zeal and chari- 
ty. He died in London, 9 August, 1664, 
aet. 68. He was the Author of the esteemed 
work, entitled Labyrinthus Cantuarien- 
sis, or Doctor Land's Labyrinth,'* Being 
an answer to the late Archbishop of Can' 
terburie's relation of a conference be- 
tween himselfe and Mr. Fisher, Sec. 
wherein the true grounds oj the Roman 
Vatholique Religion are asserted, the 
principal controversies betwixt Catho- 
liquet and Protestants thoroughly exa- 
mined, and the Bishop's meandrick wind- 
ings throughout his whole worke layd 
open to publique view, by T. C. Folio, 
Paris, 1658, pp. 415. 

Case, James, of Lancashire : this young 
missionary finished his course in Maryland 
15 February, 1731, set. 40, Soc. 19. 

Case, William, see Baxter William. 

Catanach, James, born at Alnwick 31 
May, 1796 ; on 1 September, 1822, entered 
himself a Novice at Monl Rouge; for a 
considerable time taught the little School at 
the residence in London : was ordained 
Priest 21 September, 1833, and six days 
later commenced his Missionary career in 
the arduous Mission ot St. John's, Wigan. 
No one could devote himself with more 
energy lo the duties of the Ministry, than 
this pious and charitable Pastor. In the 
exercise of his functions he took a fever, 
which terminated his valuable life, 10 April, 
1837. R.LP. 

Cavendish, Ralph ; admitted into the 
order 7th July, 1706, aet. 27, and died in 
the North of England, I think at York, 26 
January, 1727, O. 8. 

•Cerf de Jean: a native of Liege. 
This most useful lay-brother died in the 
English College of that city, 7 May 1771, 
aet. 74, Rel. 48. 

Chadwick, Henry, born in Preston 28 
September, 1805. After studying Humani- 
ties at Stonyhurst, took to the Law, and in 
P 



July 1828, was admitted an Attorney in the 
Court of King's Bench, and a Solicitor in 
Chancery, and practised for some years at 
Preston, in partnership with Mr. J. Bushell. 
But his heart turned to religion. At the 
expiration of his Noviceship in September, 
1837, the state of his health prevented his 
taking the simple vows until U May, 1838. 
Three months later he was appointed Pre- 
fect at Stonyhurst. Whilst at Supper oa 
Passion Sunday 6 April, 1840, he was sud- 
denly oppressed with an affection of the 
heart; there was barely time to adminis- 
ter Extreme Unction and the last Benedic- 
tion ; but he had been to Communion in the 
morning, had assisted at the service of 
the Bona Morsy and his edifying life as a 
Religious, leaves us no room to doubt that 
he was rii»e for Heaven. Had he lived till 
September, he would have been promoted 
to Priesthood. 

Chambers, Sabine, of Leicestershire : 
became member of Broadgate Hall, Ox- 
ford, took the degree of Master of Arts in 
1583, when to use the expression of An- 
thony Wood, p. 381, vol.1. AthenaeOxon, 
" he had the vogue of a good disputant." 
Soon after being dissatisfied in many points 
relating to the Protestant Religion he re- 
tired abroad, and at Paris embraced the In- 
stitute of St. Ignatius. For several years 
he was employed in teaching Divinity, at 
Doll, in the province of the Rhine, and at 
length was sent to the English Mission, 
vehich he cultivated with great zeal and 
fruit for the last 25 years of his life. On 
10 March, 1633, this Professed Father 
sweetly slept in the Lord in the 74th year 
of his age. He had published *' The Gar- 
den of the Virgin Mary*' Svo. St. Omer« 
1619. '* Other matters, as 'tis said, he 
hath written, but being printed beyond sea, 
says Wood, we have few copies of them 
come into these parts." 

Chamberlain, John, born in Lancashire, 
14 August, 1727. At the age of 15 entered 
the English College at Rome ; but on 3 
November, 1752, enrolled himself amongst 
the children of St. Ignatius : twelve years 
later was professed in the Order : died sud- 
denly at York 17 January, 1796. 

Chamberlain, James, born 20 Septem- 
ber, 1739 : admitted at the age of 20. De- 
voting himself to the painful Mission of 
Demarara, he died there 1 March, 1779. 

Champion, John. — All that I can glean 
of this Father is, that he was born 7 Jan- 
uary, 1695, and that he served Sauston 
Hull, and died 21 July, 1776, aet. 81, Soc. 
63, Prof. 45. 

Chapman, John, entered the Novitiate 
in 1692, and often passed by the name of 
St, Leger : was admitted to the Profession 
of the Four Vows 22 June, 1710. I find 
him employed in the Berkshire and York- 
shire Mission, and have ascertained that ha 
died in the city of York, 22 December, 
1729, O.S aet. GO. 



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Chetwin, Ralph.-— Of this venerable 
Father I collect, that when laboribus diu- 
turnis in Missione S. Thornse Cantuariensis 
notus" h 6 was apprehended in the begin- 
ning of the Revolution, committed to 
Horsham Jail, and after 13 months impri- 
sonment was removed by Habeas Corpus, 
to London, and discharged. In 1701 this 
zealous Father was performing the duty of 
a Missionary in London. Retiring to Wat- 
ten this faithful minister of Christ was cal- 
led to receive the Crown of glory that 
fadeth not away, on 8 October, 1719. 

Chorley, Thomas, of Lancashire. 
Young in age, but ripe lor immortality, 
this Father was called from the scene of 
his meritorious labours on 28 October, 1718, 
eet. 30, Soc. 13. 

* Christopher, William. This tempo- 
ral coadjutor joined the order on 18 May, 
1687. When the Revolution burst forth he 
was apprehended with F. Edmund Thorold, 
and detained a close prisoner for nine 
months. He died in Wales 15 December, 
1705, set. 48. 

Church, Edvstard.— This venerable Fa- 
ther and worthy son of St. Ignatius, was 
born at St. Columbs, in Cornwall, on 15 
November, 1728, and at the age of 18 gave 
himself up to religion. On 2 February, 
1766, he was enrolled amongst the Professed 
Fathers. After serving the mission for at 
least half a century, this Patriarch of his 
brethren calmly expired at Rixton, near 
Warrington, on 22 January, 1820, and was 
buried in a vault outside the Chapel of Bed- 
ford, near Leigh. 

*Churchill, William. — This scholastic 
died at the early age of 28, at Watten, 25 
March, 1684, Rel. 8. 

Clare, John, of Parham, in Suffolk. 
His real name was Warner. On 16 
July, 1660, King Charles II. rewarded 
this loyal subject by creating him a 
Baronet, On the preceding year (7th 
of June) the worthy gentleman had married 
the accomplished Miss Trevor Hanmer, 
whose family had been raised to the rank 
of Baronet as early as 8 July, 1620. 
The fruit of their union was two daughters, 
Catharine, born 20 March, 1660, and Su- 
san, born 15 July, 1663, who both at a 
suitable age, consecrated themselves to Al- 
mighty God in the holy and happy state of 
Religion. By the mercy of heaven, this 
virtuous young couple had the blessing of 
being called to the true Catholic Faith. 
Lady Warner, with her sister-in-law Eliz- 
abeth Warner, were first reconciled to the 
Church, 23 June, 1664 : and the baronet 
followed their pious example about a fort- 
night later, viz. 6 July. It is a remark- 
able|fact, that the principal instrument in 
these conversions was F. John Travers, 
aliaSiSavage, who after living 28 years in 
the Society, and attaining the degree of a 
Professed Father, miserably fell like Judas 
from indulging the passion of Avarice.* 



This should make each one adore the im- 
penetrable secrets of God's mercy and jus- 
tice, and treasure up the direction of J.C. 
in 3 Revel. 11 v. "Behold I come quickly : 
holdfast what thou hast, that no man take 
thy crown." 

But to return to Sir John and Lady 
Warner : their unreserved correspondence, 
with divine grace, procured for thera the 
inestimable favour of vocation to the per- 
fection of a religious life : and they heroi- 
cally consented for this purpose to separate 
and renounce each other in time, in the as- 
sured hope of being re-united in Heaven, 
never to part again. The baronet resigned 
his estate to his brother Francis in October, 
1664, and reached Watten 20 March, 1665, 
and four days later entered himself as a No- 
vice, by the name of John Clare. In con- 
sequence of the death of his brother Fran- 
cis, who was drowned off Mewport 3 April, 
1667, ("where he had intended to embrace 
the life of a Carthusian,) John was obliged 
to delay his simple vows until 1 November, 
1667. His sterling merit and virtue en- 
titled him to the consideration of his Bre- 
thren. He was appointed Rector of their 
house at Watten, on 25 November, 1685, 
and as I find by a Journal kept there *'on 
Sunday, December 4, 1689, this Rev. Fa- 
ther rector was declared Provincial by R. 
F. Keynes." This dignity he held for near- 
ly four years ; when retiring to Watten he 
died the death of the just, on 21 March, 
1705- 

Clare, John, according to Wood and 
his Co(»yists, Harris and Dodd, was an 
Irishman ; but the assertion is obviously in- 
correct. Had they but turned to the con- 
clusion of his admirable work of "-The Con- 
verted Jewy^ where he so forcibly ad- 
dresses the members of the Universities of 
Oxford and Cambridge, they would have 
found, that he expressly stiles himself an 
" English Pry est." Probably the mistake 
arose from confounding him with F. Ed' 
ward Clare^ his contemporary, and the Su- 
perior of the Jesuits at Waterford. — John, 
I imagine, was a native of London, It was 
certainly there, that F. Gerard became ac- 
quainted with him in his youth, and after 



♦ This unfortunate Priest w^as born in Devon- 
shire, ;n 1616. At the age of 26 was admitted into 
the Order. Thirteen years later I find him teaching 
Philosophy at Liege Sent to the Mission he con- 
ducted himself for some time to the satisfaction of 
his superiors, but after being Rector of his BB. in 
the College of the Apostles for two years and a half, 
he admitted the Devil into his heart, and fraudu- 
lently obtained (by abusing the name of his Provin- 
cial, F. Joseph Simeons) the title deeds of a consi- 
derable property, which certain Lay-Trustees held 
for the use of the Jesuits. But he was compelled by 
a Decree of Chancery to restore them : and this ex- 
posure of his dishonesty, led him on to the usual ex- 
cesses of Impurity and apostacy. At the breaking 
out of Gate's Plot, in the spirit of revenge, the un- 
happy wretch, exerted his envenomed malice to 
aggrieve and injure his former brethren. After 1690 
I lose sight of him. His brother Joseph was entered 
an alumnus of the English College at Rome, , in 
1645, and became a discalced Carmelite. 



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duly satisfying hirrself of his disposition, 
and capacity, sent him abroad for education. 

When that zealous and charitable Father 
wrote his Latin Affto-Biography, about the 
year 1608 or 1609, he states it as his opin- 
ion, that this youDg Jesuit, and his other 
protege F. Tlioraas Sylvester, were then 
stationed at St. Alban's College, in Val- 
ladolid. 

On 4 July, 1618, the signature of F, John 
Clare occurs in conjunction with Fathers 
Knott and Coffin's, to a very sensible me- 
morial addressed in Rome to F. Thomas 
Owen, then in a declining state of health, 
recommending him to name F. Richard 
Blount as his coadjutor and successor in 
the office of Prefect of the Mission. ^ 

Returning to his native counfry, 
F. Clare appears to have laboured 
with zeal and discretion until his death. 
The date of his demise I have sought for in 
vain ; but it is not unlikely that it took 
place about the commencement of the Civil 
commotions. How this eminent Writer 
should have escaped the notice of the saga- 
cious F. Nathaniel Southwell, is truly un- 
accountable : His work above mentioned 
must make him ever to be considered as 
one of the brighest Luminaries of the Eng- 
lish Province, as a man of prodigious read- 
ing and information, and not less candid 
than learned. As the work is rare, we may 
state that it is a 4to vol. printed in 1630, with 
the name of the author, "M. John Clare, 
a Catholicke Priest of the Society of 
Jesus," and dedicated to the two Univer- 
sities of Oxford and Cambridge. The work 
is divided into three Dialogues. The speak- 
ers in the first are Michseas, a Jewish Rab- 
bi, Cardinal Bellarmine, and Dr. Whitaker, 
Its object is to prove that the Roman Catho- 
lic Church has suffered no mtrinsic change 
in faith and religion, since it was first 
planted by the apostles. This dialogue 
contains 124 pages. 

The second introduces Michaeas, the 
former converted Jew, Ochinus, who first 
planted Protestancy in England in Edward 
the Sixth's reign. Doctor Reynolds of Ox- 
ford, and Adam Neutserus, chief pastor of 
Heidleburgh in the Palatinate : and it 
shews that the Protestant Church had no 
existence before Luther's apostacy. There 
is an appendix containing a full answer to 
a pamphlet entitled *'A treatise of the Visi- 
bility and Succession of the True Church 
in all ages," which had been printed in 
1624. This second dialogue comprises 
155 pp. 

In the third dialogue we find the said 
Michaeas, nnd the Lord Chief Justice of 
Erigland, and the Vice Chancellor of Ox- 
ford, discoursing together : and it is proved 
that Protestants are more chargeable in 
principle and in practice with disloyalty 
to their legitimate governors, than Catholic's 
are. This is done in 141 j)ages. The 
address of 3 pages to tho JMembers of the 
ivvo Universities, concludes the whole. 



The work may have been printed abroad, 
if not privately at home ; but the printer's 
office possessed no Greek types ; and there 
could have been no efficient reader or cor- 
rector of the press. A new edition of this 
valuable work, duly revised and corrected, 
is truly a desideratum, 

Clapton, Edmund, died at Vi^atten 7 
November, 1637. 

Clarke, Francis, of Wiltshire : at the 
age of 24 joined the Society ; and to the re- 
gret of his brethren was prematurely carried 
off" by death at St. Omer's College, 28 Oc- 
tober, 1657, set. 38. 

Clarke, Henry, was admitted 7 Sept. 
1690 ; and died at London, 7 November, 
1729, set. 60. 

Clarke, John, was born in Essex : 
united himself to the Order at the age of 28: 
was professed in the same 8 December, 
1641. On 15 iVlay, 1655, was declared Rec- 
tor of the College at Liege : nine years la- 
ter was appointed Provincial, and at the 
expiration of that office, was directed to re- 
sume the government of his brethren at 
Liege. He actually died Rector of the 
English College at Rome, 6 October, 1672, 
set. 68. 

The second of this name, whose life was 
a model of the Apostolic career of St. John 
Francis Regis, died at Ghent, I May, 1723, 
eet. 61, Soc. 42. 

Clarke, William, made his simple 
vows at Watten, 8 September, 1689, was 
Professed 9 May, 1705. In the Annual 
Letters of 1710, he is described as ^^Rector 
Collegii S. Francisci Xaverii, egregius et 
Superior et Mis&ionarius.*^ He died at 
Hereford, 6 February, 1734, aged 65, 

*Clarkson, Eemund, of Lancashire, 
died at St. Oraer, 4 December, 1734, ast. 66, 
Soc. 39. 

Clarkson, George, born at South-hill, 
near Chorley, 4 May, 1738 : at the age of 
20 became a Novice. His first Mission was 
at Leighland, in Somersetshire, where I 
meet him in 1770-1. He thence removed to 
Stapehill, in Dorsetshire ; and finally was 
fixed at his native place, where he establish- 
ed a large mission, and erected tho present 
House and Chapel. Worn out with age 
and labour, he died tranquilly 5 November, 
1813. 

•Clarkson, Joseph. — This brother was 
admitted in 1760, at the age of 26 : a few 
years later he eludes my search. 

Clayton, John, of Lancashire. This 
worthy Father was declared Rector of Wat- 
ten 2G August, 1 05 1 : at the expiration of 
his government of that house, nearly eleven 
years later, was appointed Rector of Liege 
College, where he was soon after called to 
his recompense and repose, dying J6 April, 
1663, «et. 52, Soc. 34, Prof. IS. 

Clayton, George. — In a catalogue made 
in 1766, he is stated to have been born 
1701, to have been admitted in 1720, and 
professed in 1738 ; but I can glean no fur- 
. ther information of iiini. 



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♦Clement, Ignatius, of Essex. This 
most pious lay-brother finished his earthly 
course at Watten, 17 October, 1664i, set. 
69, Rel. 50. 

Clifford, Arthur Lewis, son of Ar- 
thur Clifford, Esq., by his wife Eliza (Mc' 
Donell) was boru at Paris, 4 June, 1818 : 
after studying Humanities at Stonyhurst 
upwards of five years, was admitted into the 
Society at Hodder, 7 September, 1836. At 
the end of two year's Noviceship he took 
the Vows. This promising youth was at- 
tacked with consumption which soon car- 
ried him off at the Seminary, October 7, 
1841, at 8^ A.M. in the presence of the com- 
munity, and in the most edifying and reli- 
gious dispositions. *' His death in the 
words of the Rector, F. Norris, is truly to 
be envied." 

Clifford, Thomas, of Lancashire, join- 
ed the Order in 1635 ; admitted to his re- 
ligious Profession, 17 September, 1641. 
He was a man of real eminence, and full of 
the spirit of his vocation. At the termina- 
tion of his Rectorship at Liege, F. Whil- 
bread, the Provincial, offered him, by letter 
of 4 September, 1678, the choice of two 
or three places in England which are very 
considerable, or to go to Loretto, whither 
F. General recommends me to send some 
very able good religious men immediately. 
I am sure you have these qualities in an 
eminent degree, and may do a good service 
there, and be an honour to our province. 
There are more than one, and some of our 
own province, who have willingly under- 
taken that devout employment, even after 
they had governed : so that I hope your 
Reverence will not take the proposal for any 
disparagement. I am sure it is intended for 
none." In the postscript this amiable Pro- 
vincial adds, " to-morrow I begin to move 
towards England, and I shall be glad to 
hear of your resolution as soon as may be." 
A few days later he had received in London, 
Ft Clifford's reply: in acknowledging it, he 
says " 1 must ever be edifyed at you for 
submitting so willingly." 

On quitting the Penitentiary at Loretto, 
F. C. was appointed to the same function 
in St. Peter's at Rome, which he filled from 
15 May, 1681, to 2 November, 1686. He 
died in the Eternal City six years later, 
aged 78. 

Clifford, Walter, 4th son of the Ho- 
nourable Thomas Clifford, 6y his wife Bar- 
bara, daughter and co-heir of James, fifth 
Lord Aston, was born at Tixall, 13 March, 
1773. He commenced his studies at Sedg- 
ley Park, and when tolerably advanced, pro- 
ceeded to the Academy at Liege. Here his 
active intelligence, his lively humour, his 
high sense of honour, and his steady and 
unaffected piety, endeared him to his com- 
panions and Superiors. At the time of the 
emigration from Liege, he was in the Ju- 
niorate, i.e. a candidate for the Ecclesiasti- 
cal State, and was amongst the very first to 



arrive at Stonyhurst, 29 August, 1794. Im- 
mediately he was appointed to commence 
teaching a course of Humanities, and the 
spirit, ability and success with which he 
executed the task, was invaluable, as an ex- 
ample and model. In 1796, he defended 
the whole body of Theology, nolwithstand- 
the concurrent labour of teaching his scho- 
lars, with admirable effect. At the end of 
the course of Rhetoric, he was promoted to 
the chair of Philosophy. Ordained Priest 
by Bishop Douglass, (of happy memory) at 
London, in Whitsunweek, 1801, he cele- 
brated his first Mass at Tixall, on Corpus 
Christi day, 4 June that year. Returning 
to the College, he multiplied his services, as 
^ B|pfessor, Prefect, Preacher, &c. The 
browing of a blood vessel was the conse- 
quence of official fatigue and over exertion 
of mind and body. For the benefit of his 
health, a voyage to Palermo was recom- 
mended ; but to the deep regret of his fami- 
ly, acquaintance, and numerous friends, he 
was cut off in the early career of honour 
and usefulness, 23 July, 1806, and was 
buried in the vault of the sanctuary, in the 
Professed House of the Society at Palermo. 
His portrait was engraved by J. J. Van de- 
Berghe. Well might F. Thoraasi say of 
him, in his letter of 6 August, 1806, who 
attended him in his last moments, *' Si 
Angelus mori posset, non aliter morirC' 
tur, quam mortuus est Pater Clifford." 

Clifton, Francis. — We meet with two 
Fathers of this name ; the first was born 2 
April, 1702, and died at Dunkirk, 16 April, 
1757, Soc. 38. 

The second was born in London 6 No- 
vember, 1742, of Irish Parents. I am in- 
formed that the family name was Fanning^ 
(of Waterford) : at the age of 20 he entered 
the Novitiate. For many years was con- 
fessor to the English Nuns at Liege, and 
after their emigration, at Dean's House near 
Salisbury, and at Newhall near Chelmsford. 
This respected Father died in London 23 
May, 1812, and was buried at St. Pancras. 

Clifton, James, born in Lancashire 3 
April, 1698, at the age of 21 united himself 
to the Society ; died Missionary at Crosby,* 
8 October, 1750. 

Clifton, Thomas. — I meet with three 
members of this name, all natives of Lan- 
cashire, the hrst "born at Ward's House," 
joined the Society in 1698, set. 23; but 
whose History I cannot follow up. 

The second born 7 April, 1700, at the 
age of 18 entered the Novitiate, was pro- 
fessed 2 February, 1736. After teaching 
Humanities at St. Onier's, was appointed 
Penitentiary at St. Peters, at Rome ; after- 
wards Minister of the English College in 
that city, from 1757 to his death in 1764. 

The 3rd died somewhere in Shropshire, 
27 April, 1777. 

Clifton, William, for nearly 30 years 
served the Mission of Formby, where he 
died 29 August, 1749, set. 71 , Soc. 50. 



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Closette. Joseph, born in Flanders ; 
but educated entirely amongst the English 
Jesuits. Soon after his ordinations he was 
ordered to Wardour, to supply for the Rev. 
Charles Forrester ; but melancholy to re- 
late, he was suddenly killed at Ludweli, 
near Wardour, by a fall from his horse 
about three weeks after his arrival. This 
unfortunate event took place on 23 October, 
1781, in the 30th year of his age ; and the 
remains of the deceased were interred in 
Tisbury Church. 

Cr-OUGH, Richard, born 28 November, 
1728 : at the age of 16 he dedicated him- 
self to God in the Society, and 19 years 
after was promoted to the rank of a Pro- 
fessed Father. For 19 years he was the 
incumbent at Worcester, where he built the 
late chapel. Dying there 19 January, 1777, 
his remains were deposited in St. Oswald's 
Cemetery. 

*CoBB, George, born in London 27 Feb- 
ruary, 1808 : arrived at Stonyhurst for his 
studies in October, 1819. This amiable 
and most promising scholastic, died of con- 
sumption at the Novitiate of Mont Rouge, 
near Paris, 6 June, 1827. 

Coffin, Edward, a native of Exeter, 
entered an alumnus of the English College 
at Rome, 1588, and ten years later, when 
in Priest's orders, and actually Missionary 
in Enc^land, enrolled himself amongst the 
children of St. Ignatius. His zealous la- 
bours procured him the honour of becoming 
a prisoner for Christ. We learn from p. 
84, vol. XIII. Archaeologia, that he was con- 
fined in Beauchamp's Tower, London, But 
he was afterwards conveyed to Frangling- 
ham Casile, and only removed to suffer per- 
petual banishment, at the accession of 
James I. Repairing to Rome, he filled for 
nearly twenty years the post of confessor 
in the English College. He then raedita- 
ted returning to his native country, and 
quitted Rome, for Flanders, 16 September, 
1625 ; but died at St. Omer's, on the I7tb 
of the following April, set. 56, leaving be- 
hind him the reputation of great learning, 
perfect integrity, and unaffected Piety. 
We have from his pen 

1. " Preface to F. Person's Posthii^ 
mous Reply to Dr. William Barlow, 
Bishop of Lincoln, 4to. St.Omer, 1612. 

N. B. The Preface contains 120 pp. 
The Reply 543 pp. 

2. " -4 Treatise on the celehacy of 
Priests," in answer to Dr. Joseph Hall, 
then Dean of Worcester, afterwards Bishop 
of Exeter, and of Norwich, 8vo. St. Oraer, 
1619. 

This work I have not been able to see. 

3. " The Art of Dying Well, written 
by Robert Bellarmine, of the Society of 
Jesns and Cardinall : translated into 
English for the benefit of our country- 
men, by C. E. of the same Society." 8vo, 
J621, p. 328. 



4. True Relation of the last sicknes 
and death of Cardinall Bellarmine, who 
died at Rome, 17 th of September, 1621." 
8vo. 1622, pp. 101. 

5. " Motives for renouncing the Pro- 
testant Religion, by Anthony de Dominis, 
D.D. Dean of Windsor." 8vo. St. Omer, 
1623. This work has been recently trans- 
lated ( 1827) by the pious and learned Dr. 
Fletcher. 

Cole, Joseph, born 9 April, 1727 ; died 
at Rome, 10 December, 1763, aet. 16. 

Cole, Robert, born in America, 23. 
December, 1732; admitted at the age of 
20 : and Professed \8 years later. After 
serving the Mission nearly half a century, 
he died 28 April, 1812. A stone in the 
chapel yard, Bury St. Edmund's, bears the 
following inscription : — 

D. O. M. 
Reverendus 
Roberlus Cole, 
Obiit. IV. Kal. Maii. 
MDCCCXII 
R. I. P. 
Vigilate. 

CoLEFORD, Thomas, of London : at the 
age of 25 he enlisted under the banner of 
St. Ignatius ; and was numbered among the 
Professed Fathers, 5 August, 1625. He 
had passed through several Collegiate 
Houses, and had been Penitentiary at Lo- 
retto, when he was ordered to the English 
Mission in 1629. There he ended his days 
18 August, 1670, aet. 81. 

Q. Who was F, Peter Coleman, said to 
have been killed for the Faith by the In- 
dians in July, 1685. 

CoLLiNGwoop, Charles, or Thomas, 
entered the Novitiate in 1676; was Pro- 
fessed 24 June, 1695 ; after serving the 
mission many years, died 6 February, 
1719, set- 69. 

CoLLiNGWooD, RoBERT, was admitted 
at Watten with seven others, after finishing 
the study of Humanities at St, Omer's Col- 
lege, in 1677. This Rev. Father chiefly 
resided in Staffordshire, and died at Bos- 
cobel, 24 January, 1740, set. 83. Tradition 
reports, that he was buried in the chapel of 
lilack Ladies. 

*CoLLiNGs, John, (alias Thomas Land) 
became temporal coadjutor at Lisbon, about 
the year 1593, In a letter of F. Persons 
to F. Creswell, of 12 September, 1504, I 
find he was then living in Rome. Also in 
Father Robert Bedford's letter of 9 March, 
1612, that he vyas still residing there. From 
p. 290 of More's Mist, it appears, that he 
died ill Spain, early in the 17th century. 

* Another brother of this name was 
certainly living at Rome at the end of the 
year 1624. 

Collins, Richaud, was I'enitenliary at 
Rome in 1593. In the month of April, 
1596, he set out for the English Alissioii, 
which he served until his death 26 August, 
1G17, Soc. 32. 



Q 



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♦Collins, Thomas, died at Ausburgh, 
20 June, 1682. 

Collins, William.— Of the two of this 
name, the elder was, after studying Hu- 
manities at St. Omer, conducted by his roas- 
ter, F. Layton, to VVatten, September 7, 
1669. From a document of 23 March, 1701, 
I infer that he was then residing in Suffolk, 
He died 21 July, I70i, aged 54. 

The junior Father entered the Society in 
1704 ; and died in Worcestershire, I think 
at Grafton, 5 September, 1744, set. 60, 
Another account fixes his death iu 1745. 
and calls him John C. 

*CoLoss, Peter. This worthy lay-bro- 
ther died amongst his bretjren at Liege, 12 
September, 1786, set. 65, Rel. 35. 

CoLUMB, John, — From F. Mora's His- 
tory, p. 21, we collect that he was a native 
of Devonshire, that he entered the Society 
at Louvain, in the 26th year of his age — 
that he was Confessor to Douay College, 
and continued discharging the office of 
Preacher, until the year 158S, when he 
died, having passed ten years in the order. 

♦CoMBERFORD, Thoma.s.— His death is 
recorded in the Annual Letters as having 
happened at Liege, 23 August, 1638. He 
is described as Juvenis inaocentissimus mo- 
ribus et a teneris Virtuti deditus." 

CoMPTON, Philip, of Cambridgeshire, 
was admitted at the age of 19, and Profes- 
sed 3 December, 1649. After serving the 
English Mission 19 years, was called to the 
reward of zeal and piety, on 25 November, 
165S, ffit. 52. 

CoMPTON, Thomas, (aVias Carleton,) of 
Cambridgeshire, and perhaps nearly related 
to the foregoing : at the age of 'i6, (or ac- 
cording to Southwell, 24) enlisted under the 
standard of St. Ignatius, and was admitted 
to the Profession of the solemn Vows of 
the order, 21 May, 1628. Deservedly ad- 
mired for his classic taste, and his skill in 
Philosophical and Theological science, he 
■was still more conspicuous for his spirit of 
peifect obedience and tender piety. He died 
at Liege, 24 March, 1666, set. 75. He has 
left the following monuments of his indus- 
try and learning. 

1. PhUosophia Universa." Folio, 
Antwerp, 1649, pp. 621. 

The title page is a fine engraving by 
Wenceslaus Hollar, representing the Au- 
thor's Patron, Maximilian, Duke of Bava- 
ria, sealed on his throne. 

2. " Prometheus Christianus." 8vo. 
Antwerp, 1652. 

o, " Theologia Scholastica'' Folio, 2 
vols. Liege. The first vol. dedicated to 
Ferdinand, Duke of Bavaria, was printed 
in 1658, has pp. 571. 

The second vol. dedicated to Lewis, 
Duke of Lenox and Aubigny, was printed 
in 1664, and contains 626 pages. 

CoNiERs, Christopher, admitted 5 No- 
vember, 1688 : was enrolled among the Pro- 
fessed Fathers in 1706: and was long era- 



ployed in the Mission. He died 29 August, 
1730, aged 61. 

CoNiERS, George. Three members oc- 
cur of this name ; the first was a aaiive of 
Yorkshire, joined the order at the age of 
29 — was admitted to the Profession of the 
Four Vows on 12 May, 1622, and for 48 
years continued to serve the English Mis- 
sion, Ob. in October, 16S2, set. 77. 

*The second of the same family as the 
preceding Father, died -iS December, 1657, 
set. 23, Soc. 3. 

The third was a missionary in or near 
London, in 1701, and 1704, and died in 
that capacity, 28 February, 1711. 

CoNiERs, Leonard, died at Southend, in 
Soberton Parish, Hants, where he had long 
proved himself a faithful Minister, 15 July, 
1745, set. 74, Soc. 55. 

CoNiERs, Thomas. Three Fathers of 
this name appear in the Annals. The first 
was possessed of all the spirit and zeal of 
an Apostle. According to F. More, p, 21, 
he had previously studied at Douay, that 
seminary of learning, piety and Martyrdom, 
before he aggregated himself to the Society 
at Tournay, in 1584. His principal resi- 
dence was at Dinant, and for an account of 
his indefatigable labors, we must refer our 
readers to More and Tanner. After in- 
structing others unto justice, he was called 
away to receive his splendid and never- 
fadingr diadem, on 24 January, 1639, aged 
77, at Bastogne, a town in the centre of the 
Ardennes. In a letter of F. J. Gerard, 
to F. T. Owen, dated 4 November, 1614, I 
find mention of this Apostolical Father, and 
of the lively and active interest he took in 
the removal of his English brethren from 
Louvain to Liege. He ofi"ered to send 
them by water a cargo of tinober, "the only 
dear material for building at Liege." 

The second finished his earthly career at 
St. Omer, aged 57, Soc. 36, Prof' 18. 

The third was born in London, 31 De- 
cember, 1715 : studied at St. Omer ; made 
his simple vows at Watteu, in 1736 ; died 
in Lancashire, 20 April, 1780, and was 
buried at Windleshaw. 

CoNNELL, Michael, admitted 7 Septem- 
ber, 1707, aged 19. Ten years later I meet 
with him as Procurator of Ghent. He died 
in the course of the year 1726. 

Constable, alias Place, Ignatius, ad- 
mitted 9 August, 1709, at the advanced age 
of 45: died in England 21 August, 1727. 

Constable, John, passed at St. Omer's 
College by the name of Lacey, which per- 
haps was the family name of his mother. 
On 7 September, 1695, his master of P.he- 
torick. Rev. Jos. Plowden, escorted him to 
the Novitiate at Watten : the date of his 
profession of the Four Vows is 2 February, 
1714. Unquestionably F. Constable is en- 
titled to rank amongst 'the ablest aud best 
informed men in the English province. Un- 
der the signature of Clerophilus Alethes, 
he published "■Remarks on F. Le Couray- 



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cr'jf Book in defence of the English Ordi- 
nations,'* an octavo vol. of 284 pages, 
without date of place or year. It is a work 
of considerable research, and was much ad- 
mired by the Rev. Robert Manning, an ex- 
cellent judge in such matter. See p, 127 of 
Constable's M. S. reply to Dodd's Reply or 
Apology. He was also the author of an 
octavo vol. The Doctrine of Antiquity 
concerning the most blessed Eucharist 
plainly shewed." This is an answer to the 
Rev, John Johnson's book, called '* The 
Unbloody Sacrifice," and was printed in 
London. 1736, pp. 153. 

3. " Deism and Christianity fairly 
considered," a 12rao vol. published in 
London, 1739. 

4. " The Conversation of Gentlemen 
considered in most of the ways that make 
their mutual company agreeable or disa- 
greeable, in Six Dialogues,''* 12mo. These 
two last mentioned works I have not been 
able to examine. 

5. ** ^ Specimen of Amendments can- 
didly proposea to the compiler oj Church 
History,^' which the Rev. Charles Dodd^ 
had then recently published in 2 folio vo- 
lumes. This duodecimo, printed in 1741, 
London, pp. 244, could not fail to excite 
public attention, and was followed by Mr. 
Dodd's angry, coarse, and abusive " Apo- 
logy for the Church History " Svo. 1742, 
pp. 208. F. Constable's Reply, finished 
3 January, 1743. a M.S. 4to. pp. 242, is 
now before me, and was never published. 
It is searching, smart, and acute, but not 
solicitous enough to keep up the unity of 
the spirit in the bond of peace. One ounce 
of charity is always better then any amount 
of satirical wit : our duty is to soften and 
allay, not to irritate and provoke, pre- 
judice. F. Constable died at Swynnerton, 
in Staflfordshire, where he had resided as 
chaplain for a long period. The event took 
place on 7 April, 1743, New Stile. In the 
parish register of burials is the following 
entry 1743, March 28, buried Mr, 
John Constable, from Mri Fitzherbert's." 
No stone records his memory. 

Constable, Joseph. — I cannot discover 
the date of his admission, but 1 meet him at 
Paris in 1701, and in the English mission 
in 1704 and 1728. From 22 September, 
1737, to 22 October, 1739, he filled the 
office of Rector of St. Oraer's College. Re- 
tiring to Watten, he died there 28 January, 
1750. 

Constable, Michael, was Rector of St. 
Omer's from 8 April, 1688, until the cele- 
brated Father Petre succeeded him five 
years later. From that lime he became at- 
tached to the Court of his unfortunate So- 
vereign, James IL at St. Germaine, and 
was appointed Preceptor of Mathematics to 
his Majesty's son. He died at St. Germaine, 
21 July, 1707, aet. 59, Soc. 39. 

Constable, Robert,— In the Fasti of 
the Province are two Fathers of this name. 



The senior, at the age of 38, and on 9 
May, 1711, was admitted ; but died at 
Watten, as I find in a fragment of a diary 
once kept there, on 4 February, 1739. 

The junior was born at Thirsk. After 
studying for five years in the English Col- 
lege at Rome, he embraced the Institute of 
the Society in 1729, and eighteen years 
later took his statica amongst the Professed 
Fathers. From the examination of his 
register, at Wardour, he must have served 
that important mission from 1744 to 1759, 
when he was summoned to the government 
at Watten. When the first division of 24 
Scholars evacuated St. Oraer's College, 9 
August, 1762, they reached Watlen that 
evening, and their conductor, the Rev. 
Joseph Reeve, in his M.S. narrative 
of that event, says, "The Rector, F, 
Robert Constable, received us with all the 
feeling and tender kindness of a Father ; 
for he was a good religious man, and the 
spirit of God was in him. " At the 
expiration of his Rectorship shortly after, 
he accepted the situation of chaplain to 
Lady Haggerston, and died at her house, 
in York, 3 February, 1770. 

Conway, John, born in Flanders : died 
at Ghent, 9 November, 1689, set. 64, Rel. 
38. 

Conway, William, admitted in 1703 : 
was living at Ghent 2i3 years later, sine 
officio died at St. Omer, 13 September, 
1741, set. 59. 

Cook, John, or .Tames, admitted 20 
June, 1676; was living in the College of St, 
Thomas of Canterbury, when the Revolu- 
tion burst forth. The brutal treatment that 
he received during this ebullition of popular 
phrenzy, as detailed in tlie Annual Letters, 
must disgust every friend not only of 
Christianity, but of common humanity. He 
died in Lincolnshire, 19 August, 1708, set. 
55. 

Cope, or Coupe, Joseph, born at Hough- 
ton, near Blackburn, 13 March, 1792; after 
studying Humanities at Stonyhurst, joined 
the Society in 1807 ; was ordained Priest at 
Durham, 16 December, 1817, and appoint- 
ed to the Gillmoss mission, in Lancashire, 
14 January, 1818, where he opened St, 
Swithin's Chapel, 15 July, 1824. Attacked 
with liver complaint, which ended in dropsy, 
this indefatigable and mortified minister of 
Christ died deeply lamented, on 20 Decem- 
ber, 1834. 

Copley, William, was initiated in the 
Order in 1686. Twenty five years later 
he is described as cultivating the London 
Mission, " magno cum Jriictu." In the 
sequel he was attached to the Ferrers' 
family, in Warwickshire, where it seems he 
ended his days 29 November, 1727, aged 
59. 

Corbe, Jean Claude, born 24 January, 
1734 : at the age of 22 aggregated himself 
to the Society, and had the painful trial of 
witnessing the sujppression of his brethren 



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in Fraaee, in 1762. In the ear'Jy part of 
the saineqaeBt BevgimiaB iQ that ill-fated 
e p uKtry , he emlgrmted to this lajid of safety 
t-'- fri-i-z:- : ::: ;::ir riaie was chaplain 
z: C:.-:i;.:. -.:ei i: Rc^faerwas, where 
h.f oe-f::L -i:ic:er ^is as eogagiBS. as 
i-s - r e estimable. Dyii^ there, 

r. : - : . z: : ;s^rTedly reflected patroa 
ca _se : 5 - r iias to be deposited ia the 
anciei. , cortigaoas to the family 

Biaasioa. i ne g-mve-stone is thu iaseribedj 
(iaaeeacaidy as to the 9S&yi— 
J.C.Corbe.a J. 
ObiitSS Jaaii iSla, 
JEf.83. 

CoBBiB, AxBHosE, boTB wBsg DurhaiB. 
aa nai9day,7 Deeeaiher, as I 

find ia a ■BMtaada^Q. _ In the Diary of 
the ifinisler of the Z;.:.:i:- Ic'/.r^e at 
It— iG, hefe recorded to z : = :e- : = :. Lo^ic 
SD Aagast, 16S3. **cmi i^itor€. " Four 
yean later he eada-aeed " tbe pious losti- 
talB" of tbe S«ciely,at Watten : was or- 
dalKd Priest at St. Over, S9 Septeaiber, 
leSyaadiaisedtBtheiaBkofa Professed 
Fathers Aagast. 1611 ; was Coafessarios 
totheBaglish Coll^atBMe, II Apiil, 
1619. Fraaiihe dassle pea of this yoaag 
Jesait. we have Cewtamem, TY^pUsx," or 
the Ufk amd Mtatgrdom afkU Breikrem, 
Bmtrk C9r*at, mfF. T. UMamd, mmd afF. 
Hetu Mhne, afl of S. mmo. Aatwerp, 
IGUh pp. 14iw with poitsails. Has Lati« 
beak is ia great reqaisitiaa amaag ooi- 

Hjaams, Gebabs, a natiTe of the 
KJ a yiie drDafhaBa, and paroit of FF. 
Aabrase, Balph, aad Robert Corbie, S.J. 
aadef twoBsaedk&ie Ifaie. Mary and 
CStffaerine. His wifa also embraced the holy 
sble of idigioB wfaea he became a Nonee, 
9ii ArngmMt^nm. five years later he last 
las eye-s^[fat. This venerable man had been 
asB&rer fbr CSaifaofie Faith, ami joyfUly 

€r«d aad Bewaider, which he received at 
Wattea, 17 September, 1687, ,'N. S.) 
80. 

CcHBrE. He VST, bom U April, 1700: 
v: : r : . :.j : if : i n 1 722, and was admiaed 
5 ? :: :ei£ jon9 Fdimary, 1740: was 
F. f : : : : 1 : Wattea from 21 Jaae, 17-la, to 
1' : : 11: ProriQcial of his Breihrea £nMQ 
- : to 18 Oetober, I7eSL At 
: f ix:\-ir.o-. :f AkoSee was appointed 
r : rriiirzt c:r:: Breihrea atGfaeat, 
vr--f :.i z.iz z.z^i.j l4Jane,l7^ 

*<- :r.i:z, J:hv. — L:.zi gocd lay-tm>tber 
c.r: i; S;. Omer, 15 May, 1751, set. 60, 

C : I : Rauk.— 'Oiis Ue^sed martyr 
^ 1 s 1 : :aL}y bom in Irdand, wbaAsi his 
•i e - 5 5-ddeidy eoaapelled to fly to 
-7 : roaathooK. RalphiaiaaS^ 
^ ; : 0 the Society ; five years 
'.i i: zi^zzlds missionary career at Dar- 
Li'z ziz ::s neig-hbimrhooi, and laboured 
Wiih ail the q^ifit and seai of the Apostles, 



until he fell into the snares of his enemies at 
HorpsBrly, S July, 1644. Put on board a 
Sunderland Vessel for London, be was 
thrown into Newg-ate, 22 July, whence he 
was dragg-ed to Tyburn, 7 September fol- 
lovrinf , O. S., to leceire that abundant re- 
ward in Heaven, which Christ has insured 
to those who suffer persecution for the sakfr 
of rifi^teoesoffis. 

CSoaBiE, BoBEBT, brother to FF. Am- 
br<»e aad Ralph before-mentioned, died in 
the English Bu^ioa <» Good Friday, 17 
Apnl, 1637. He was cimsidered as* a re- 
^eelable Kn^aist, and heard confessions in 
Dtfeh, Iialimi, Spaaish, Frmch. and other 
hi^iiages.- 

* CoasTKU^ Abhou}, died at Lisle 27 
Jooe, 17^ aet. 41. F^eL 31 . 

* CoasisiEa, Fbawcis. — This useful lay- 
brother departed this life a i St. Omer, 31 
May, 1761, at. 47, Rel. IS. 

CoHSELius, En WARD, died at Watlen, 6 
November, 1637, Soc. 12. The Annual 
Letters pronounce hira to be " rir plane 
sanctus.''* 

CoB.>'£Lius, John, was born at Bodmin, 
and became a protege of Sir John Arundell, 
of Laaheme, commonly called the Great 
ArmmdtU (as More informs us, p. 135), 
who kindly defrayed the espences of his 
educati<m at Oxford. "Rie youth, to keep 
his eoBsdenoe, left Oxford for the seminary 
at BheiBis, with Ifa^ approbation of Ms wor- 
tty Patraa, and was fiivoorably received by 
tke iocoi^arahle Dr. Allen. With fire 
otbeis, vis. James Iabox, Christopher 
Soiithw<»k, Joha Tappet, j^mon Swinburn, 
and Bobert Cbainoc^ he was sent by Dr. 
GFTBgory Martin, and tbe other Superiors of 
the House, to tbe English College at Rome, 
on 9 February, 15S0, who testify to F. 
Agazzari " oawer nostro judieio idoneos, 
etadwegiramexpettatwrnemtetate, ingenio, 
merStmt ae eruditione conrenienter 
(qmoMUmm in nobis erat j electos atque 
appnbat9Mj' After finishing Theology 
and reeetvii^ Priesthood, Y* Cornelius re- 
tomed to K^^aad in September, 1533. His 
generous patront on his death- bed earnestly 
recommended to his wife (Anne, daughtw 
of EJwaid, Earl of Eerby, and relict of 
Charles, tke seventh Lord Stourton) the 
care of his Rev. friend. From the pen of 
ha danghter Dorothy Amodell, who after- 
wards became a Nno at Brnssels, and em- 
ployed him for ten years as her spiritual 
director, we learn most of the following 
particulars : 

For some time he resided in London with 
the Arundell family. His fame for dis- 

* Yecf amy of tbe wiap of OtnuUn occur is 
theKc|^terofBisliop'sTe%Htoa Fad^ 

t This eoBsdefdaoasKm^ was snmnned np to 
LmJwh cariy ia 1581, zmA csomauttcd to cXaas ens, 
iaitf for a tnw by Qwoi raxobeO. He died at 
LdewoRtfe. as we learn film Vbe jsnA t^aba, \\ 
Janeay, 1391. bat was baried at St, Coiiiaib&^ 
His servsat aefeaaliy dted a foisaagi for 



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possessing obsessed {)ersons becoming no- 
torious, the Privy Council decided on ap- 
prefiending him : a posse of thirty Consta- 
bles had actually invested the house of a 
Catholic gentleman at Mile End, where F. 
Cornelius happened to be : he was engaged 
in writing when apprised of their arrival : 
wiih perfect calmness he left his chamber, 
and passed through the midst of them un- 
heeded, unsuspected, and unmolested. 

Lady Arundeli and her establishment 
quitting town for Chidiock Castie,* F.Cor- 
nelius accompanied them, The fruits of 
his zeal soon appeared in the reconciliation 
of above thirty families. But we can be 
surprised at nothing, when we call to mind 
his seraphic charity, his uninterrupted 
union with Almighty God, and his very 
mortified life. And " he was so famous 
for his preaching," says F. Gerard, " that 
all Catholics followed him, as children do 
their nurse, when they long for milk." 

This great and good man had for several 
years cherished a vehement desire of being 
incorporated with the Society of Jesus, 
and had applied to the General Aquaviva 
for admission. In a letter written to that 
Chief Superior about the year 1592, by 
F. Hen. Garnet, I read " Joannes Cor- 
nelius vir not a pietatis hoc de se asserit 
paratum se quidem esse in Flandriam 
ire, sijuheamus — vir vere humiiis^ pius 
et sanctus est, et demonibus, terribilis, 
quippe qui eos nuper in Exorcismis mire 
exagitaverit ; et ejus apudnostrates existi' 
mationis, dignus ut sit qui nostris hume- 
ris feratur. Votum Societatis ingre- 
dienace emisit. Vestram Dominationem 
ed de re consuluit una cum D. Loo,f prce- 
stanti jamdudum Martyre. Ille ejusmodi 
est, ut nullum timeri pericuLum possit si 
tyrocinium differatur et hie admiltatur ; 
et prcetereafer^ temper vivit cum uno e 
nostris.''X But his crown was preparing. 

From pure benevolence Lady Arundeli 
was induced (o employ a miserable pauper 
in menial offices about the Castle. After 

* In the Catholic Magazine of August, 1838, I 
publisheil an account of Cliidiock Castle, with an 
Inventorj' of its Goods and Chatties, as taken 7 
August, lG3 5,about twelve years before it was final- 
ly dismantled by the Parliamentary Forces. Special 
mention is made of a Tower Willi its chamber and 
" Chapell Chamber." which had probably been oc- 
cupied hy F. Cornelius and other Apostolic Mis- 
sio'uaries, 

t This most worthy Priest had suffered at Ty- 
burn, as early as 8 October, 1,586. 

I F, Gerard was Intimate, amongst others, with 
F. Cornelius In a M. S. written about 1607. he 
ftlles him the third martyr of the Society of 
Jesus in Enyland, ( Campian and Briant had 
suffered before him) adding, "The man was so 
full of the Apostle's charity, that with one fervent 
speech, (in imitation of the oITer which St. Paul 
made to be anathema pro fratril/us) he expelled a 
devil out of a person whom he was exorcising. I 
know the time and place where it was perforrned ; 
and where another wicked spirit confessed in a 
possessed person, that his fellow was cast out by 
Cornelius' charity." 

R 



some time the man, forgetful of his situa- 
tion, grew enamoured, in his folly, of ber 
Ladyship's maid, a most respectable person, 
and annoyed her with his attentions 
and proposals. Complaint was made to 
the chaplain, who seriously remonstrated 
with him on the impropriety of his con- 
duct. In the spirit of revenge the mis- 
creant determined to betray the Priest, 
and for this purpose concerted measures 
with the High Sheriff of Dorset. Geo. 
Morton, Ksq. and two Justices of the 
I'eace, George Trenchard, and Ralph 
Horsey, Esqrs. Easter Sunday, 31 
March, 1594, was fixed upon for the at- 
tempt, and for five miles round the castle 
the paths and roads were guarded with 
police. Suspicious of danger, F. Cornelius 
said Mass for the family as early as one 
o'clock that morning, and notwithstanding 
their entreaties to the contrary, he then hur- 
ried away and lay prostrate on the ground, 
within a thick copse at some distance ; the 
searchers came, but after two days of 
fruitless labour and expectation, retired 
dissatisfied and provoked with their in- 
former. Unwilling to expose the family to 
a repetition of such vexatious visits, and 
to endanger their property, liberty, and 
lives, this considerate chaplain proposed to 
leave Chidiock, at least for some time; but 
Lady Arundeli would not consent, and ac- 
cordingly he resumed his usual ministry. 
His return was duly notified to the magis- 
trate by the domestic enemy. On 14 
April, the second Sunday after Easter, 
Cornelius said Mass at five o'clock, and 
whilst making his thanksgiving, Mr. 
Trenchard and his satellites, having rapidly 
scaled the outer walls, and burst open the 
castie doors, entered with drawn swords and 
loud clamours, and dispersed themselves over 
the house in every direction. Cornelius 
had time to take refuge in bis hiding hole. 
For five or six hours the search was con- 
ducted with eager diligence : but nothing 
was found except books and ornaments for 
the aitar. The magistrate was then pre- 
paring to retire, when he was solicited to 
continue for some time longer: the faith- 
less servant heading the party to the 
chamber where the hiding hole was. 
F. Gerard states, that the breathing 
or coughing of the Priest was the 
means indeed by which he was found out 
and apprehended ; but unquestionably at- 
tention to the spot had been directed by the 
traitor. On forcing the secret entrance, 
the Father appeared absorpt in meditation. 
Their brutal shouts brought in Miss Doro- 
thy: he appeared paler than usual, but re- 
fulgent with light, and she was so over- 
come with the scene as to be incapableof ut- 
terance : I am glad, said the magistrate, that 
we have caught you at last. " I am doubly 
contented," said Cornelius. Leading hira 
into the hall, he was subjected to an exami- 
nation as to his profession : he begged 



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them previously to understand, that he 
owed it to justice and charity to maintain 
aa impenetrable silence as to points that 
might be detrimental to other persons ; but 
as to his profession and his religion, he was 
prepared to defend it with zeal and mod- 
esty. The members of the family were 
then introduced one by one, and questioned 
as to their knowledge of the prisoner. 
They affected ignorance of his person, 
with the exception of Mr, Thomas Bos- 
grave, her ladyship's kinsman (and proba- 
bly connected with F. James Bosgrave), 
who manifested the most profound respect 
and veneration for this confessor of the 
faith. Miss Dorothy at last appeared, 
and with a sorrowful countenance took all 
the blame (if any) upon herself, of har- 
bouring the gentleman : she had invited 
and concealed him ; but under the convic- 
tion that instead of violating the law, she 
was performing an act of Humanity. His 
mother, a poor Irish woman, aged, de- 
crepid, and bed-ridden, lived in the house, 
and had hoped for the consolation of be- 
holding her son once more. Would a Bar' 
barian refuse this tribute of natural piety 
and affection ? 

Commitments were made out for four, 
the Priest, Mr. Bosgrave, and two servant 
men, Patrick Salmon, and John ( alias 
Terence ) Gary. After bidding an af- 
fectionate adieu to his aflBicted mother, 
and animating her to confidence in a Fa- 
therly Providence, the good Priest mounted 
a horse, and rode by the side of the magis- 
trate, like a companion and friend. At 
the venerable castie-gate about five hundred 
persons had collected. Cornelius sa- 
luted them courteously, and they returned 
the compliment with every mark of sym- 
pathy and respect. Trenchard was of a 
humane disposition, he allowed his pri- 
soner during the fortnight he remained at 
his house, every accommodation compa. 
tible with safe custody. Many fiocked 
to converse with him : amongst others, 
Charcke, the vanquished opponent of F. 
Persons, and Sir Walter Raleigh. The 
latter spent a whole night in discussing 
controversial topics, and departed with ad- 
miration of his talents, and with compli- 
mentary proffers of service. 

On 30 April, orders arrived from the 
Privy Council to send up the prisoner to 
London. Here he was lodged in the Mar- 
shalsea, and most inhumanly tortured ; 
but his constancy was immoveable. His 
prison he regarded as a Paradise ; for it 
furnished the long desired opportunity of 
entering into the Society of Jesus. He 
pronounced his vows before a Heligions, 
commissioned by F. Hen, Garnet to re- 
ceive them in the presence of two wit- 
nesses. He tells Dorothy in a Letter, that 
his heart is now swimming with joy, for 
this favour of Almighty God : and when 
be was " going to die for a moment, that 



he might live for ever," to use his owa 
expression : and he publicly professed him- 
self to be a Jesuit. 

Remanded to Dorchester, he approached 
the gibbet with all the joyful welcome 
of a St. Andiew. With his three 
companions he suffered there on 4 July, 
1594. In a memorandum of Uichard 
Verstegan, the antiquary, I read, "they 
could not get a cauldron for any money to 
boil his quarters, nor no man to quarter 
him ; so that he hanged until he was dead; 
and was buried, being cut in quarters 
first." It is certain, however, that the 
quarters were exposed for a time, and that 
the head was nailed to a gallows ; and 
moreover, that by the management of 
the above-mentioned Lady Arundell, the 
quarters were by stealth conveyed away, 
" J urtim sublata et honor ijiccntius colla- 
ta." The head also came into the pos- 
session of Catholics. " Caput etiam venit 
in Calholicorum potestatem.'' 

The reader will be as much edified with 
his Biography in FF. More and Tanner's 
History, and in Dr. Challoner's faithful 
Memoirs, as he will be disappointed with 
the meagre and defective narrative in p. 
73-4, of vol. ii. of Dodd's Church History. 

CoRNELiusov, James. Occasionally I 
meet with this Father in the middle of the 
17th century. 

Q. Was he not dismissed ?t Watten, io 
1674? 

CoRNFORTH, Thomas, of Durham : ad- 
mitted by F. Hen. Garnet, in the year 
1600, and was professed in the Order 11 
April, 1613. On the Midsummer day pre- 
ceding his profession, whilst saying Mass 
before Lady Vaux and actually administer- 
ing the Holy Communion, this saintly Fa- 
ther was surprised by the pursuivants. At 
another time he was caught at the altar by 
an informer, but the latter became so over- 
awed with the Father's sanctified appearance 
that he begged his pardon, and desired his 
acceptance of a valuable rosary, and a piece 
of gold ! This venerable Priest died at 
Liege, 14 May, 1649, or rather 1650, " oc- 
togenario major." 

COTTAM, Thomas, of Lancashire, con- 
verted by Mr. Thomas Pond, of whom 
more hereafter, to the Catholic Faith. In 
the seminary of Douay, he learnt the true 
Ecclesiastical spirit ; but panting after the 
perfection of the Evangelical counsels, he 
entered the Society at Rome, 8 April, 1579. 
The fact of his admission into the Order is 
stated in a letter of Dr. Allen, dated 12 
May that year. In consequence of bad 
health, by the advice of his physicians, he 
proceeded to England ; but was ordained 
Priest at Rheims in his way. He had 
hardly landed when a prison was his abode, 
from which he went forth to Tyburn 30 
May, 1582, aet. 33, much pitied by the mul- 
titude. See the fourth book of Mere's Hist, 
his Life in Tanner, and in Challoner's truih- 
telliag narrative. 



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*CoTTAM, William.— This good Brother 
was born 8 March, 1713: died at Watten 
-8 February, 1767, set. 54, Soc. 7. 

Cotton, George, of London, admitted 
in 1653 ; professed eighteen years later ; 
died in England 3 May, 1697, aet. 61. 

Was he not of the same respectable fa- 
mily as Mr. John Cotton, of Northamp- 
tonshire, who was appreliended with F. 
Edmund Campian, and thrown into the 
Tower ; but liberated at the end of a twelve- 
month : and for several years was a prisoner 
at Winchester ? Under King James I. he 
was again committed to the Tower for a terra 
of five years. This most pious layman died 
in 1636, aet. 75. 

CoTTo.v, John, born 29 July, 1724 : at 
the age of 17 commenced his Novi<5eship : 
was professed in the Order 18 years later ; 
died at Courtfield, 24 July, 1769. 

Cotton, Richard, at the end of Humani- 
ties, was admitted in 1681; professed 2 
February, 1700. Twenty years later I 
•find him teaching Mathematics at Liege, 
and shortly after Moral Divinity. He was 
then sent to the mission, where he often 
passed by the name of Phillips. I think he 
died at Norwich, 4 May, 1740, aet. 75. 

CoucHE, John, born at Tolfrey, near 
Fowey, 14 April, 1744 ; joined the Novi- 
tiate in 1762; for some time after this was 
incumbent at Canford and Lullworth ; but 
spent the last 22 years of his missionary 
life at Southend. His death happened at 
Green\vich. 29 December, 1813. 

*CoucHE, William. — This devout scho- 
lastic and mirror of the religious spirit, was 
born at Tolfrey, 5 February, 1732, and 
died at Liege, of the small-pox and the 
breaking of a blood-vessel, 23 February, 
1753, Soc. 4. His life by F. Ralph Hoskins. 
intitled " De Vita Virtutibusque Gulielmi 
Couche," is an edifying and well-written 
performance. 

Courtenay, Edward, of Sussex. — After 
studying a course of Philosophy at Rome, 
he united himself there to the Society on 28 
August, 1621, and was admitted to the 
Profession of the Four Vows 30 August, 
1634. As a classical scholar, as a profes- 
sor of the higher studies, he could have few 
«u[ieriors. That in an eminent degree he 
possessed the art of governing, the Colleges 
of Liege, St. Omer, Home, and the Province 
at large abundantly testified : and as a 
missionary he was " all to all," a model of 
zeal and charity. The weight of years and 
infirmities admonishing him to court retire- 
ment, he went to St. Omer's, where he died 
ill the arms of his Brethren, on 3 October, 
1677, aet. 79. From his able pen we have 

1. II. P. Petri Writi, Sacerdotis 
Angli t Soc. Jesu Mors, quam ob Fidem 
pasxus est Londini, 29 Maii, MDCLI." 
12mo. Antwerp, 1651, pp. 151. On the 
reverse of the title page is a brilliant 
portrait of the Martyr, by C. Galle. A 
copy of this little gem fetched at iiindley's 



sale, 27 February, 1819, the sura of 12 

guineas. 

2. " Manipulus Regius SS. Heroidum- 
Britannice oblatus Reginee Suedes 
{Cliristina):' Fol. Romae, 1656. 

CouRTENAV, Henry, was an Alumnus 
of the English College at Rome. Before 
his death, 4 January, 1593, he was admitted 
into the Society. 

Courtenay, Thomas, was appointed 
Vice Rector of the English College at Rome, 
24 February, 1639, when F. Thomas Fitz- 
herbert was too infirm to attend to business : 
succeeded him as Rector 17 August, 1649, 
and pronounced the eulogium on his vener- 
able predecessor.* Four years later he 
was made Penitentiary of St, Peter's, viz. 
16 July, 1644, after which I lose sight of 
him. 

Cox, Robert, born in Warwickshire, 
A. D. 1579: at the age of 42, and after 
serving the mission ten years, enrolled him- 
self among the children of Loyola. I can- 
not recover the date of his death. 

CoxoN, Thomas, admitted in 1676, pro- 
fessed 2 February, 1694. This venerable 
missionary attained the age of &5, and died 
at St. Omer 7 May, 1735. 

F. Coxon was the editor of one of the 
best printed books in the English language, 
" Ribadeneira' s Lives of the Saints," 
Fol. London, 1730. The translator was 
the Hon. William Petre, whose version 
first issued from the St. Omer press in 
1669. In an original letter of F. Coxoa 
to his friend F. Percy Plowden, residing 
at Rome, and bearing date 19 February, 
1731, he mentions the success that had at* 
tended him in reprinting this excellent 
work, but that he had been forced to take 
up some money at interest to finish it, and 
therefore prays him to encourage the sale 
of it amongst his acquaintance— that the 
selling price here was 27s. 6d. unbound — 
that the intention was not only to furnish 
families with a devout work, tor Sundays 
and Holidays ; but by its sale to raise a 
fund to print Catholic books, and to main- 
tain a man of parts to be constantly writing 
for the good of religion. In J. Marma- 
duke's Catalogue of 1784, this Edition was 
to be sold at £l 15 0 

Crane, William, admitted 28 June, 
1676: died in England 13 July, 1706, set, 
59. 

Crathorne, John, of a good family in 
Yorkshire : at the age of 21 joined the So- 
ciety ; was admitted to the rank of a Pro- 
fessed Father 1 January, 1625. This very 
learned Professor, and industrious culti- 
vator of the mission, died in England, 1 
April, 1656, aet. 66. 

*CnEsswELL, Arthur. — All that I know 
of him is gleaned from this M.S. account of 
F. Persons, to whom he had been most 
friendly on returning to England, in 1580 

* The reader may see it in p, 171-2, of Cath. 
Spectator of 1823, 



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— *'a youth of great forwardness and ex- 
pectation both from virtue and learning : he 
went into voluntary banishment, entered the 
Society and died in Sicily." 

Cresswell, Joseph, of London, (his 
widowed mother married Wm. Lacy, Esq. 
afterwards a Priest, who suffered death at 
Yoik, 22 August, 1582).— Joseph was ad- 
mitted into the Society at Rome, 1 1 Octo- 
ber, 1583, a3t. 25: was subsequently 
Rector of the English College there, and 
eventually Superior of the English mission- 
aries in Spain. That he was a man of great 
abilities and distinguished piety is unde- 
niable ; but his admirers had occasionally 
to regret peevishness of temper and tena- 
city of opinion. He died at Ghent, 19 
February, 1623, Prof. 24, set. 65. 

He was the author of 

1. A Latin Treatise De Vit& beata."' 

2. Under the name of John Perne, he 
wrote against the cruel Proclamation of 
Queen Elizabeth, bearing date 29 Novem- 
ber, 1591. This work was printed in 8vo. 
1592. 

3. He published a Treatise. 4to. St. 
Oraer, 1611, against King James the 
First's Proclamation, issued the preceding 
j'ear, against Catholics. 

4. " Meditations on the Rosary,*' St. 
Omer, 1640. 

5. He published in Spanish and English 
" the Martyrdom of F. Hen. Walpole.'' 
12mo. Madrid, 1596. The Spanish account 
appeared also at Saragossa the same year 
in 8vo, see p. 616, vol. ii. Antonii, Bib. 

6. A Translation into Spanish of F, 
Wm. Itath's Treatise on Penance," 

7. A translation of Salvian's Book 
" Quis Dives salvus'' into English and 
Spanish. 

Cripp, John, of Derbyshire, was aggre- 
gated to the Society at the age of 25, and 
professed 19 March, 1629. After teaching 
Humanities and Mathematics, he laboured 
in the mission during twelve years, then re- 
tiring abroad, he died at St. Oraer, 16 Octr. 
1657, set. 67. 

Crosland, Charl-es. — This worthy 
missionary died in England, 30 March, 
1724, set. 69, Rel. 47. 

Cross, Bernard, born in TenerifFe, 
8 April, 1715, and on his 22nd birtiiday 
consecrated himself to God in the Society. 
He was admitted to the Profession of the 
Four Vows on the Feast of the Assumption, 
1755. For some time he exercised his 
missionary functions at Vera Cruz : for 
several years, I am informed, he was sta* 
tioned in London, but died at Worcester, 
22 April, 1785; another account says 
22 October, and'another 3 February that 
year. I think the first date is the correct 
one. 

Cross, John, of Lancashire, younger 
brother of F. Joseph Tristram, the late 
worthy incumbent at Newhall, was educa- 
ted at Liege, and filled the office of Prefect 



both there and at Stonyhurst ; for upwards 
of 30 years this amiable Priest served th^ 
mission of Spinbhill, Derbyshire, where he 
died lamented by all that knevf him, on 
Thursday evening, Dec. 3. 1835, set. 68 . 

N.R. This mission of Spinkhill seems 
to have been directed by members of the 
Society for the last 200 years. See p. 286 
of F. More's History. 

Cross, Thomas, uncle to the last men- 
tioned : born 7 November, 1739 • nineteen 
years later began his Noviceship ; died at 
Holbeck, near Spinkhill, 18 Goober, 1813. 

♦Crouche, Ralph, of Oxford* — This 
valuable temporal coadjutor died at Liege, 
18 November, 1679, aet. 59, Rel. 20. 

♦Cruvs Vanden', Maktin, and Touis- 
sant. — The first died at St. Oraer, 23 Au- 
gust, 1624, aet. 46, Rel. 22. 

The second finished his earthly course 
at Ghent, in 1694, aet. 43, Rel. 17. 

CuERDEN, Thomas, of Lancashire, be- 
came a Novice at Watten, in 1737, and a 
Professed Father in 1755 ; died at Scholes, 
near Prescot, 30 March, 1793, at. 75. 

CuFFAUD, Alexander, died in England, 
30 April, 1674. 

CuFFAUD, Kdward, of Hants, died in 
England in 1696, aet. 76, Soc. 85. 

CuFFAuD, Ignatius, (I believe of 
Battle) Sussex : at the commencement of 
his missionary career, and at the age of 31 
he joined the Society. His death occurred 
in England, 19 July. 1679, aet. 71. 

CuFFAUD, John, of Hants, perhaps bro- 
ther of Edward, was admitted in 1641, aet. 
20, after which I lose sight of him. 

The other John was admitted 21 Decem- 
ber, 1688 ; died at Chester, " in obsequio 
incarceratorum," 19 March, 1715, aet. 48. 

Curry, John. The first time that I 
meet him in this handful of gleanings, is in 
a letter of F. Gaspar Haywood to Dr. 
Allen, that " grande decus columenque- 
rerum *' dated 16 April, 1583, " I have 
sent Mr. John Curry, a Priest, to France, 
He is admitted into the Novitiate, and I 
have intrusted him with all my commis- 
sions." In the company of F. Richard 
Holtby he landed in the North of England, 
on 14 January, 1590. He died in Lon- 
don, at F. Gerard's House, between 1594 
and October 1597, and as usual in such cases 
then, was secretly buried in the premises, 
''et in quodam ibi secreto loco sepultusjacet 
Sic enim Sacerdotes qui in missione pri- 
valimvivunt, privatim etiam sepelire coqi- 
?nMr"says F. Gerard, in his Autobiography. 

CuRsoN, Peter, born 31 July, 1687; 
admitted in 1706 ; was Chaplain at Brara- 
bridge, Hants, but ended his days 25 of 
February, 1765. at Winchester. 

Curtis, Edmund, of Hants, died at 
Liege, 18 July, 1691, aet. 79, Soc, 43. 

Curtis, Henry, of Hants ; admitted as 
a temporal Coadjutor at the age of 26, and 
for full 40 years did good service in that 
office. He passed from labor to rest at 
Watten 2 Jan. 1657, aet. 67. 



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Curtis, John, of Hants, is slated in 
the Annual Letters to have had three bro- 
thers in the Society, and to have finished 
his earthly course in Yorkshire, June 1651, 
set. 76, Soc.39, Prof. 28. 

Curtis, Thomas, of Hants, brother to 
the three preceding^ : he had been on the 
mission for one year, when he united him- 
self to the Society. At length worn out 
with above 50 years labor in this vineyard, 
he retired amongst his brethren at Liege, 
where he died 22 January, 1657, aet. 77. 

CuTHBERT, John. — From the Annual 
Letters of 1656, 1 collect that this zealous 
Father had been discovered by the searchers, 
and lodged in York jail. Like many others, 
in that wretched prison, he may have died, 
under his hards'hips, unknown and forgot- 
ten ; for after that time he disappears alto- 
gether. 

•Dampier, Richard, died at St. Omer's 
College, 30 January, 1639. 

*Dampier, William, of Somersetshire. 
In the Provincial Catalogue of 1642, he is 
stated to be then sixty years old, and to 
have passed 17 in the Order. He died at 
St, Oraer, 18 May, 1652. 

Danby, Richard, probably of York- 
shire : in that county he exercised his pas- 
toral functions, and with such industry 
and success, that the Annual Letters of 
1656, assure us, that where he found fifty 
souls, he had increased his flock to 550 ad 
minimum, araoDgst whom were six or 
seven illustrious Families. Further par- 
ticulars I cannot recover. 

Daniel, John, of Yorkshire, was con- 
verted by F. E. Knott, at the time he was 
chaplain to the celebrated Dr. Montague, 
Bishop of Norwich. At the age of 36 he 
submitted to take his station amongst the 
Novices of tha Society. After filling the 
chair of Professor of Scripture, he was 
sent to the Mission, where his disinterested 
Keai and talents could not fail to procure a 
rich harvest of souls. Retiring to Liege, 
he died of apoplexy 21 November, 1668, 
aet. 61, leaving behind him the reputation 
of a good religious man, and of an eminent 
oriental scholar. 

N.B. For Daniel, Thomas, see West, 
amongst the Scotch Fathers. 

Darby, Francis, of Derbyshire- In the 
provincial list of 1655, he is reported to be 
then 42 years old, of which he had passed 
just half in the Society— that he was then 
serving the Maryland mission. Probably 
he ended his earthly course in that vine- 
yard. 

Darcy, Charles. I think he had a con- 
ference with Dr. Morley, at Brussels, on 
23 June, 1649. See Wood's Athense 
Oxon. 

It is certain that he was Rector of the 
English College at St. Omer, from 5 Au- 
gust, 1652, to 15 February, 1656. There 

S 



he died 22 October, 1673, after a 3 months 
illness, '^annis et meritis gravis." 

*Darcy, John, of Northampton, was 
admitted in 1652, aet. 24. Three years later 
I meet with him at Ghent, after which he 
escapes my observation. 

Darcy, Robert, (alias Foster) died in 
England 3 January, 1641. 

Darrell, James, of Calehill, Kent, 
born 27 December, 1707 : joined the Or- 
der in 1723 : professed in 1741. After ser- 
ving the English Mission for many years, 
he retired amongst his brethren at Liege, 
where he ended his career in a good old 
age, 18 May, 1785. 

Darrell, John, elder brother, I believe, 
of James, boru 10 May, 1705, and entered 
the Novitiate one year before him. His 
Profession of the Four Vows is dated 2 
February, 1740. From the year 1752 to 
1759, he was Rector of St. Omer's College, 
and subsequently its procurator, and was 
justly admired by the Lord Chesterfield, 
and all visitors, for his polished urbanity 
of manners and considerate hospitality. 
With his able and active pen, he laboured 
zealously to avert and prevent the seizure 
of St. Omer's College by the tyrannical 
parliament of Paris, and when he found it 
impossible to resist violence — when he saw 
in the place of judgement, wickedness; and 
in the place of justice, iniquity — his fore- 
sight and decision of purpose were no less 
manifested in removing and fixing the es- 
tablishment at Bruges. This worthy Fa- 
ther died in London, 9 March, 1768. 

Darrell, Philip, third son of Henry 
Darrell, of Calehill, Esq., by his wife 
Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Thomas 
Gage, baronet. This talented and amiable 
youth commenced Humanities at Liege, and 
on finishing Rhetoric at Stonyhurst, in 
1797, entered the Juniorate, or the proba- 
tion of candidates for the eclesiastical 
state. ( Having had the happiness and 
honour of being his Individual companion 
during the whole of that period, I can bear 
testimony to his love of prayer, his spirit 
of industry, his docility of heart, his cheer- 
ful piety, and obliging disposition.) Ap- 
pointed in due time to teach a course of 
Humanities, he infused into his pupils his 
own spirit of classic taste and elegance 
Afterwards promoted to Holy Orders he 
gave abundant promise of attaining the 
highest reputation of pulpit oratory. Pres- 
ton was assigned him, for the theatre of his 
generous zeal and splendid talents ; but 
alas ! within six weeks after his arrival, 
he fell a victim of charity in attending tba 
sick, on 28 January, 1813, ast- 32. His 
family erected a tablet to his memory in St. 
Wilfrid's Chapel, where his eloquence must 
have moved and electrified the hearts and 
minds of his hearers. We could have 
wished the inscription to have contained 
more point, and fewer words, and not to 
have omitted th« date of kis demise. 



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A or 

Here are deposited the remains of the 

Rev. Philip Darrell, 
Third son of Henry Darrell, Esq., of Calehill, 
in the County of Kent, whom it pleased God 
at the age cf Thirty two. 
to call from this world, where 
the suavity of his temper 
his benevolence, and the practice of every virtue, 

endeared him to his acquaintance. 
His unaffected piety led him to embrace a profession 
which opened no rewards, but such as he wished to 
obtain 

Through the mercies of God, by the performance of 

the charitable duties annexed to it. 
The soothing hope that h& is now enjoying those 
rtwards in the presence of his Blessed Redeemer, 
Is the only consolation which his afflicted 
Father, his loving Brother and Sisters 
can feel for such a loss. 
In testimony of which, and of their tender afifectlon, 
they have erected this Monument, 
A.D. MDCCCXIirr. 
R. I. P, 

•Darrell, Thomas, born 8 September, 
1711 : at the age of 19 enrolled himself 
amongst the children of St. Ignatius. This 
devout scholastic, to the deep regret of his 
family and friends, was cut off in early life, 
22 November. 1734. 

Darrell, William, a man of superior 
merit, embraced the pious Institute of the 
Society 7 September, 1671. For several 
years filled the office of Prefect of Studies ; 
and governed the College at Liege from 17 
November, 1708, to 29 January, 1712. 
Before and after this appointment he was 
employed in the English mission ; but died 
at St. Omer, 28 February, 1721, set. 70. 
His pen was always ready, and he has left 
us the following monuments of his piety, 
zeaJ, and talents. 

1. "The Vindication of St. Ifinatius 
of Loyola, from Fanaticism," 4to. Lon- 
don, 1688. This \vas in answer to Dr. 
Slillingfleet. 

2. Gentleman Instructed, " 8vo. Lon- 
don. This has passed through several 
editions. 

3. '* Theses Theologicce, in quibus de- 
fenditur Collegii Angl, Leodii Doctrina." 
4lo. Liege, 1702. 

4. Moral Refections on the Epistles 
and Gospels of every Sunday," 4 vols. 
12mo 1711. 

5. The Case Reviewed, or an answer to 
the case stated by Dr. CJiarles Leslie, (who 
had published his work in 1713). The Case 
Reviewed certainly went through three 
editions. I think F. W. Darrell was the 
author of a Treatise on the Real Presence 
in answer to the Author of the " Case 
Stated," l2mo. London, 1721. pp. 403. 



In Peck's Catalogue, 1735, is a Letter 
ascribed to this Father on King James the 
Second's most gracious Letters of Indut' 
gence, 4to. 1687 : as also a Letter to a 
Lady on Scripture Proofs of the Ca- 
tholic Church — an half sheet folio. 

I suspect that F. Darrell vvas the trans- 
lator of Pere Daniel's Discourses of 
Cleander and Eudoxus on the Provin- 
cial Letters, 12mo. 1701 and 1704. 

He is sometimes said to have been the 
author of" Practical Reflections, " but 1 
think the authority of that excellent critic, 
and most diligent collector and investiga- 
tor the Rev. John Kirk, as set forth in the 
preface to the enlarged edition, by the Rev- 
E. Peach, of 1821, is decisive, that the 
Rev. Robert Lane, alias Bones, a devout 
Priest of Douay College, (who died at 
Bath, 17 December, 1735 ) was the real 
author. 

Darbyshire. Thomas, nephew of the 
celebrated Bisliop Bonner, w?s Archdeacon 
of Esses, bat for conscience sake made a 
sacrifice of all his preferments and expec- 
tations in the beginning of Queen Eliza- 
beth's reign. On 1 May, 1563, at the age 
of 45, he entered the Novitiate of St. An- 
drew's, at Rome, and nine years later was 
admitted to his religious Profession. 
Through his zealous representations, the 
Fathers of the council at Trent passed their 
decree " de non adeundis HcBreticorum 
Ecctesiis." This venerable Father died at 
Pont-a-Mousson, in Lorrain, 6 April, 1604, 
aged 86. Pere Nicholas Abram wrote his 
elogium. See his Life in Tanner ; also p. 
712. vol.i. Athense. Oxen, 1691. 

*Dassonville, James. — This temporal 
coadjutor died at Liege, 28 February, 1702, 
set. 34, Soc. 12. 

♦Davis, John. — This scholastic died at 
Liege, 14 October, 1706, set. 27, Rel. 7. 

Davis, Pete?. : after serving the 
BroughtoQ iNlission in Yorkshire, as also 
the Maryland Mission, he retired to Wat- 
ten to prepare for eternity, info which he 
entered 28 December, 1759, set. 67, Re!. 
48. 

Davison, or Dawson, Edward, an only 
son of respectable parents, and " connected 
with Sir Anthony Staunden," was born in 
London. I suspect that he entered the 
Society before the year assiened by F. 
Nathaniel Southwell, viz. 1606 : for tlie 
young priest addressed a letter from Lou- 
vain 2 August, 1603, to F. Thomas Owen, 
at Rome, acknowledging his favor of 27 
April. He represents the expediency of 
proceeding to England to see his mother, 
who was verging on 80, and that he wished 
to settle his temporal affairs, not doubting 
of his having *' aboute ,^1000 to be dis- 
posed as Superiors think best for the good 
of the Mission." He had also other expec- 
tations and promises of money for pmus 
purposes, if allowed to crosf over to Eng- 
land. These motives, although they be 



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temporal, yet I protest they be directed to 
a spiritual ende, and they hinder no way 
the other intentions of zeale of soules, all 
having the end of charitie proposed to them. 
Spirituall friends think also that my greatest 
aptitude is to deale with soules, although I 
finde great contenteraent in my studies 
also." He adds that he refers all to F. 
Owen's consideration, *'and shall remain 
most contented with your resolution." To- 
wards he conclusion he expressly mentions, 
that when he was last in England, he was 
then labouring under the unceriayntie of my 
union with the Societie. But Almighty 
God of his infinite goodness hath freed me 
not only from that troublesome uncertaynlie, 
but also from all causes thereof, as though 
it had never byn." He was permitted to 
go over, but was shortly after apprehended 
and lodged in jail, where he continued until 
1606, when he was sentenced to perpetual 
exile. His zeal for souls induced him to 
return, and for several years he continued his 
valuable services. Recalled by Superiors 
to Ghent, he obtained permission to devote 
himself to the care of the English troops in 
the Low countries attacked by the plague. 
He soon caught the contagion, and expired 
at Brussels, a rictim of charity, 22 Decem- 
ber, 1622, set. 46, This excellent man is 
briefly noticed by F. More, p. 449, Hist. 
Prov. Angl. His works are 

1, " Practical melkod qf Meditation 
12mo. St. Oraer's, 1614. 

2. " Lives of many Saints," Douay, 
1615. 

This is a translation from the Spanish of 
F. Peter Ribadeneira. 

Day, Francis, of Sussex. — After culti- 
vating the vineyard for 40 years, he rested 
from his labours, in Worcestershire, 30 
April, 1674, ast. 72, Soc. 49, " Vir cetate 
ac mcritis gravis^" An. Lit. 

Dean, Michael, born on Michaelmas 
day, 1696 ; joined the Society at the age of 
18 — was long employed in the Hampshire 
mission : died at Watten, 8 July, 1760. 

Decker, John, (Q. Dacre). — In early 
life he had been ihs individual companion 
ot F. Robert Southwell, and he followed in 
the winter of 1579, his dear friend's exam- 
ple, of consecrating himself to God in the 
Society of Jesus. No one can read liis long 
and eloquent letter addressed, 29 Septem- 
ber, 1580, from the Novitiate at Naples, to 
his dearest friend Robert Southwell, with- 
out being sensibly moved. In speaking of 
the liappiness of the religious state, he ex- 
claims, *' Bcnedictus Dominus et Pater 
Dni nri Jesu Ckristi qui vocavil me in 
societalem Filii sui. Benedictus, et in 
cBternum benedictus Dns noster Jesus 
Christus, qui me adco suorum beneficio- 
rum immcmorem, numero ambutantium 
semitam rectum annumerare dignatus est. 
JJtinum queam tibi Fratri mec gaudium 
adaperire , quanldque cum animi mei vo- 
luptate e! desiderio, Dei obsequio manci- 



patus vitam degam ! Jam fidem tuam 
liber asti bone Deus. Centuplum accepi 
in vita hac : nan solum centuplum, sed et 
mitlecuplum^" The whole of this effusion 
of tender piety and humility deserves to be 
printed. It is painful to add, that I have 
no means of pursuing the Biography of this 
interesting young man. 

Dedoyar, Ke was of the French 

Province, but had retired for several years 
amongst the English Fathers at Liege. Un- 
able to emigrate with them to England, in 
1794, the venerable man ended his days in 
that city, 7 January; 1806. 

*Delveaux, Joseph. — This good lay- 
brother rested from his labours in Mary- 
land, 26 March, 1734, ffit. 53, Rel. 33. 

Dennett, James, born in Lancashire, 
II June, 1702 : inlisted under the standard 
of St. Ignatius at the age of 18: was ad- 
mitted as a Professed Father 2 February, 
1798, and served the office of Provincial at 
a very difficult crisis, from 1762 to 1766, 
For many years was employed in the Eng- 
lish mission, and died in a good old age at 
Bury St. Edmund's, 1 March, 1789. His 
grave-stone on the west side of St. Mary's 
Church there is incorrectly inscribed. 

F. Dennett was the translator of "Mura- 
tori's Missions in Paraguay," 12mo. 
London, 1759. 

Dennis, Francis, died at Madrid, 9th 
December, i67.t. 

DiccoNsoN, George. — At the age of 24, 
and in the year 1677, he began his novice- 
ship at Watten; but I can trace him no fur- 
ther. 

DiccoNsoN, Thomas, perhaps brother 
of George, joined the Society five years 
before him. From a catalogue of books in 
the Priest's chamber at Stonyhurst, written 
in an old hand, and containing very many 
volumes, marked with the name of Thomas 
Dicconson, it seems probable that he was 
incumbent of the Stonyhurst mission. It is 
certain that he died in Lancashire, 2 JWay, 
1704, set. 53. 

DiDERicK, Bernard. — This worthy 
meml)er died in Maryland, September, 
1793. 

DiGGEs, John, of Maryland, born 18 
August, 1712 : united himself to the Eng- 
lish province at the age of 22. This young 
missionary passed from labour to rest in 
his native country, 14 December, 1746. 

Another John Digges, perhaps nephew 
to the former, born 23 October, 1746 : en- 
tered the Novitiate with nine others in 
1766 ; but I cannot trace him after his re- 
turn to America. 

DiGGEs, Francis, of Maryland, born 4 
February, 1712 : admitted at Watten in 
1733. For several years was stationed at 
Durham ; died at Berrington, ,28 Novem- 
ber, 1781. 

DiGGEs, Thomas, born in Maryland, 5 
January, 1712 : at the age of 18 enrolled 
himself amongst the children of St. Igoa- 



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tius, and was numbered among tlie Pro- 
fessed Fathers in 1747. After teaching 
Philosophy, he was ordered to his native 
country, where he laboured most diligently. 
This patriarch of his Brethren had entered 
his 93rd year, when he was called to his 
crown 18 February, 1805. 

DiLWORTH, Thomas, born near Preston, 
7 April, 1796, joined the Order in 1814 : 
studied Theology at Rome, where he was 
ordained Priest, 6 April, 1828. Of a ro- 
bust frame of body, and with a heart in- 
flamed with zeal and charity, he devoted 
himself to the duties of a missionary life at 
Brough, Spinkhill, and Wigan. In this 
last mentioned place, (which has tried the 
constitution of so many of his brethren,) he 
was attacked with severe indisposition, and 
was sent to Holywell for the purpose of 
recruiting his health. His friends flattered 
themselves that his valuable life would be 
spared ; but he was summoned away on 
the evening of 21 November, 1843, to be 
presented, we hope, to his God in the Tem- 
ple of his glory. His precious remains 
were deposited under the Chapel, at Holy- 
well. F. Dilworth had been admitted to 
the Four Vows of the Society, 15 August, 
1838. 

*DoNAiN, Thomas. — This pious lay-bro- 
ther died at Ghent, 10 September, 1715, set. 
64, Rel. 43. 

*DoNERB. — Of this name two oecor : 
both were temporal coadjutors, and both 
died at Watten, Anthony 2 February, 1722 ; 
Nieaise, IS August, 1719. 

DoRRiNGTON, WiLLiAM, of Staffordshire. 
— This truly religious Father died in Eng- 
land, according to the Annual Letters, on 
26 January, 1679, set. 69, Soc. 42. and but 
four days after making the Profession of 
the Four Vows. 

Dormer, Charles, (Right Honourable) 
was the eldest son of Charles, the 5th Baron 
Dormer, by his first wife Catharine 
(Fettyplace) and was born 13 January, 
1690. This noble and pious youth devoted 
himself to God in the Society 7 September, 
1709; and on the death of his Father, 2 
July, 1728, succeeded to the peerage. He 
was apprehended at Liverpool as a 
Priest and brought by the constable 
before the Mayor ; but on con- 
fessing his rank, was immediately restored 
to liberty. Retiring from Puddingtoa in 
Cheshire, he died 7 March , 176 1 , et Great 
Missenden,* Bucks, where his remains are 
deposited. 

Dormer, Francis, half-brother to the 
above-mentioned Charles, being son of the 
5th Baron by his second wife, Elizabeth 
(Biddulph) was born 14 September, 1717, 
(N. S.) After studying Humanities at St. 
Oraer, entered the Novitiate at Watten, in 
1734; was enrolled amongst the Professed 
Fathers at Hereford, 2 February, 1752: 

• Peterly had been granted by QueM Bliiab«tb 
1602 to Sir Robert Dormer, Kat. 



died at a place called Cherry Orchard, 
(Q, in Monmouthshire ?) belonging to Lord 
Gage, 1 February, 1770. 

Dormer, John. — There were two Fathers 
of this name. The elder was born in Lon- 
don, after finishing his ecclesiastical stu- 
dies atRorae, left the English College there 
for the mission 12th September, 1624; and 
about two years later was incorporated 
with the Society, He died in England, in 
1661, set. 63, and from some memorandums 
that I once saw in an old prayer book, I 
believe that his death occurred on 17th May 
that year. 

The Junior, after filling the office fof 
Preacher at the Court of James 11. was 
appointed Rector of his Brethren at Liege , 
4th November, 1689 ; but his government 
was complained of, as departing from the 
considerate, and sweet and Fatherly sys- 
tem of the Order. A successor was appoin- 
ted ill the person of that Confessor of the 
Faith, F. Geo. Busby, on 23d April, 1691. 
It appears, however, that he remained in 
the College, and finished his days there, 
27th J anuary, 1700. He had published. 

1. A Sermon, intitled " The Law of 
Laws," preached before their Majesties at 
Windsor, the I7th Sunday after Pentecost, 
September 19th, 1686. 4to. London, 1688, 
pp. 28. 

2. Another Sermon preached at St. 
James's, 25th Sunday after Pentecost, 17 
November, 1686, 4to. London, pp. 30. 

3. Another Sermon preached at Somer- 
set House, Ist Sunday of Advent, 27 
November, 1686. 

4. Rebellion Arraigned,^' pieached 
before their Majesties at Whitehall, 30 
January, 1687, 4to. London, 1688, pp. 25. 

5. " The Pharisees Council,' ' preached 
before their Majesties at Whitehall, the 
Friday after Passion Sunday, April 6, 
1688, 4to. London. 1688, pp. 22. 

6. " The Phcenix Sepulchre and Cradle 
in the holy death of the Right Honourable 
Isabella Teresa Lucy, Marchioness of 
Winchestsrf" 4to. London, 1691, pp. 22. 

In p. 254 of Cath. Miscellany of 1826, 
the P«ev, John Kirk mentions his being in 
possession of a Manuscript of F. Dormer, 
intitled *' Usury Explained," translated 
into Latin by Dr. Hawarden, in 1701 ; bus 
I believe it had been printed in 8vo. Lon- 
don, 1695-6, with this title : Usury Ex- 
plained, or Conscience quieted in the case 
of putting out money at interest.'^ See 
Catalogue of Bodleian Lib. vol. i. p. 370. 

Dormer, John Baptist, born 22 Jan- 
uary, 1716: entered the Novitiate with his 
brother Francis. This pious scholastic 
died at Liege, 26 June, 1743.* 

• la the Hampreston register of burials is tlie 
following entry:—" 1756, June 3rd, Mr. Dormer, 
from Stapehill, buried." Who is this Mr. Dormer f 
In the Church of St. Bonadventure, at Rome, 
supra Montem Palatiaum, is a monument thu» 
insciibtd 



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DoRMER> Robert, born 26 February, 
1726; in his I7th year joined the Order 
and was ranked among the Professed Fa- 
thers in 1761. After serving the missions 
of Odstock, near Salisbury, and Stapehill, 
near Blandford, and Southend in Hants, and 
Beckford, County of Gloucester, he retired 
to Wappenbury, where he closed a life of 
cheerful piety and great usefulness on 4 
May, 1792. 

Dormer, Willia-m, own brother to F. 
Charles Dormer before mentioned, was 
born 18 June, 1696 : commenced his 
Noviceship in I7l4: after ser?ing the Eng- 
lish mission for a long period, died on 27 
June, or rather I July, 1758, at the Pri- 
ory, Monmouth. 

* D'Otrem, Hubert, a Liegois, who 
after a lengthened service in the capacity of 
a temporal coadjutor to his English Bre- 
thren, was summoned to everlasting rest at 
St. Omer, 23 September, 1689, aet. 67, 
Rel. 47, 

DoTNE, Joseph. — This Marylandian 
Father was born 11 November, 1734, 
«nd joined the order at the age of 24. 
Whilst employed in the Lancashire Mission, 
this eccentric character occasionally forgot 
the proper respect due to himself and others. 
Returning to America he died after many 
years labor on 21 October, or as another 
list fixes it, 12 November, 1803. 

Draper, Joseph. He generally passed 
by the name of Metcalf : was ordained priest 
at Liege in 1701 : but was hurried to an 
nearly grave, dying 7 April, 1703, aet. 33, 
Soc. 11. 

Dkaycot, Piter, died at St. Omer, 5 
July, 1640. 

Draycot, Philip, of Staffordshire, had 
■scarcely finished the first year of his Novice- 
ship at Louvain, in 1604, when he was cal- 
led "arf piorum desideriorum premia " 
«ays F. More, page 286, Hist. 

*Draycot, Thomas, of Staffordshire. — 
This temporal Coadjutor rendered important 
services to his brethren as an Apothecary. 
His death occurred at Madrid, 15 October, 
4678, »t. 57, Soc 37, 

Drury, John, of London : at the age of 26 
joined the Society. In 1655 was superior of 
the College of St. Thomas : had then served 
the mission 21 years, and was 55 years old. 
Further particulars I search for in vain. 
. Drury, Robert, (alias Bedford) of 
Middlesex : after passing through a course 
Humanities at St. Omer's, he went to 
Rome for the study of Philosophy, wh ere 
he joined the Society in October, 1608, 
From his own letter to F. Thomas Owen, 
dated Posna, 9 March, 1612, I find 
that he had reached that city, where he had 
been sent to finish his Theology, on the 28th 



D. o. M. 

" Josepho Dormer, Noblll Anglo. Probltato 
VUae, Fragilltate Mortis. Paupertate Sepnlchri. 
Praeclaro. Alexander Francischinus Roraanus 
Haeres ex Testaraento Fiduciarlu3, P. MDCCLXIV. 



of the preceding nionth, after nearly three 
months travelling, during a most inclement 
winter. On receiving Holy Orders, he 
was sent to the English Mission, where 
his religious virtues and his commanding 
talents conciliated general esteem and admi- 
ration. But it pleased Almighty God to 
call him away in the full vigor of life and 
health, to his repose and recompense. 
Whilst preaching in the afternoon of the 
21st Sunday after Pentecost, which fell 
on October 26, or according to the 
new style, on 5 November, 1623, 
at Hunsdon Hall, (the residence of the 
French Ambas^or} Black Friars, London, 
to a congregation of 300 persons, the floor 
suddenly gave way, and this zealous Father, 
with nearly eighty of his hearers, unfortu- 
nately perished. This tragical event obtained 
the name of the Fatal Vespers. Penant in 
p. 229, London, &c., states the number that 
perished to be 94. Lysons (p. 410, Vol. IV. 
Environs of London) from the Eltham 
Register, gives the number crushed to death 
at 96. The uncharitable bigotry of the times 
considered this calamity as a judgment on 
the Catholics " so much was God oflfended 
with their detestable idolatrie ! ! " F. John 
Floyd met the reproach with a" Word of 
comfort to the Catholics." The reader may 
turn to p. 451 of More's History, and to 
page 410, Vol. 2 of Dodd's Church History, 
The elogium of this good Fathe r may be 
seen in the Preface to a book called " E, 
Robert Drury' s Reliquary," containing 
his Prayers and Devotions; printed in 1624. 

Drury, William, admitted in 1730: died 
at Liege, 30 June, 1741, set. 43. 

Dryland, Christopher. This venerable 
Missionary recovering his liberty at the 
accession of King James L, after a long 
imprisonment, joined the Society of Jesus, 
p. 141, vol. ii. Dodd's Church Hist. 

Ducket, George : of Yorkshire, or as 
another account states of Durham, was ad- 
mitted into the order in 1616, and to his 
religious profession 8 December, 1630. I 
meet with him as Rector of Liege College, 
and subsequently of the House at Ghent. 
After many years service in the English 
Mission, during which he was justly cha- 
racterised for courage, patience, learning, 
and solid virtue, he died 31 October, 1669, 
set. 79. 

DucKETT, Richard, see Holtby Rich- 
ard. 

*DucRoc, Jean Baptiste. This Lay- 
brother died at St- Omer, 8 March, 1740, 
set. 33. Soc. 8, 

♦Duddell, James, admitted 6 March, 
1683: died at St. Omer, in January, 1712, 
aet. 58. 

♦DuFOUR, Jean Baptiste, born 9 May, 
1726, died at St. Omer, 27 December, 1792, 
Rel. 44. 

Dunn, Joseph, (whose real name was 
Hart, ) was born at Catterick, in York- 
shire, 19 March, 1746 : at the age of 18 



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consecrated himself to God in the Society 
of Jesus. After teaching Philosophy at 
Liege, the young Priest was appointed 
chaplain at Callalay Hall, near Alnwick ; 
but soon resigned that situation to become 
assistant to the Rev. Nicholas Sewall, at 
Preston, where he arrived 1 May, 1775. 
By the enterprising zeal, and conciliating 
demeanour of liimself and his colleague, and 
of the Rev. Richard Morgan, who succeeded 
Father Sewall in 1783, religion made such 
rapid progress in the town, that another 
spacious chapel was erected at Fisher-Gate, 
nnder the patronage of St. Wilfrid, and 
opened for public worship^ 4 June, 1793, 
In his declining years, Mr. Dunn had the 
consolation of witnessing the Missionary 
establishment at Preston, ranking among 
the most respectable and best organized of 
any in the United Kingdom. The venerable 
man died rather suddenly. On the last morn- 
ing of his pilgrimage he rose, as was his 
custom very early, and in the course of his 
walk exchanged a sovereign for distdbution 
amongst the indigent. Between eight and 
nine o'clock, he felt a deep lassitude come 
over him, and was conveyed to bed: he lay 
there without much pain, still possessed of his 
wonted quickness of perception till nearly 
1 1 o'clock, when he quietly and without a 
struggle resigned his soul to God, 19 No- 
vember, 1827. His funeral obsequies were 
attended by an immense concourse of the 
townsmen of all religious denominations : for 
he had merited universal respect by his be- 
nevolence of disposition, and by his having 
placed himself in the foremost rank, when- 
ever any undertaking was projected for cha- 
ritable purposes, or the public benefit : and 
of some, such as the Catholic Schools, the 
House of Recovery, the Gas Works, he de- 
serves to be intitled the Founder and Father. 
The following epitaph from the pen of the 
Rev. Charles Brooke, is copied from the 
Mural Monument in St. Wilfrid's Chapel. 
To the memory of 
The Rev. Joseph Dunn, 
Minister of the Catholic congregation of 
this Borough 
for the long term of LI years. 
Exemplary in private life; 
F'aithful in the discharge of his Pastoral 
duties ; 

Assiduous in imparting religious instruction 
to children, and relief and assistance 

to the poor ; 
With active and persevering exertion, 
He procured the erection of this chapel 

and of the Catholick School ; 
EflBciently promoted charitable institutions, 
and forwarded undertakings of public 
utility. 
Esteemed and respected 
He departed this life on the XIX of Nov., 
MDCCCXXVII, 
In the LXXXII year of his age. 
" May his soul, through the mercy of God, 
lest in peace." 



In the school rooms at Preston, are tw© 
portraits of the Rev. Gentleman, one by 
Gainsforth, another by Hope. 

Ddrand, Thomas : all that can be re- 
covered of him is, that he died at Ghent. 

Durham, John, died in the county of 
Durham, 29 March, 1674, " Vir optime 
meritus." 

Durham, Thomas, (alias Robert Colling- 
wood.) All that I can collect of this Fa- 
ther is, that on 7 September, 1676, he en- 
tered the Novitiate at Watten, and that be 
died in England 16 July, 1725, set. 74. 

*Dtne, John. — A lay-brotber of this 
name died in Maryland. 11 April. 1703. 

Another John Dyne died in the same 
country, 11 January, 1711. One of these 
had entered the Society 7 September, 1681, 
set. 25. 

East, Heney, admitted IS March, 1685, 
being then 36 years old ; but died at Liege, 
2 May, the year following. 

Eaton, Reginald. — AH that I can dis- 
cover of this Father is simply, that he died 
in England 23 March, 1641. 

Eaton, William. — We learn from p. 
23 of F. M ore's History, that he was a na- 
tive of Derbyshire, that he taught Philoso- 
phy and Mathematics at Cologn, Triers, 
and other places in Germany, until the year 
1606. But it is very clear from a fragment 
of a letter evidently written by F. Gerard 
in 1614, that Father Eaton was still living, 
for he says "F.William Eaton, my old ac- 
quaintance, who waip a tenant sone of my 
Father's, and came over with me into 
France 83 years and more agoe, now reads 
cases in the Colledge of Mulsamium, and 
hath read two courses of Philosophie in o- 
ther places in Germanie." 

Eberson, Thomas. — In vain I search for 
the date of his admission. He occurs minis- 
ter at St. Omer in 1701-4, and successively 
rector of Watten, and the English Colleges 
at Rome and Liege. He died at Liege, 3 
July, 1733. 

EccLESTON, Thomas. — I meet with two 
of this name. The first was admitted into 
the Novitiate at Watten in 166S, after 
finishing Rhetoric under his master, the. 
Rev. George Morgan. I believe that be 
served the Lancashire miss ion in the sequel, 
and died there 25 November, 1698, set. 55. 

The second 1 think became convictor of 
the English College at Rome, in 1677, and 
united himself to the Society of Jesus in 
that city. He was employed in the York- 
shire Mission ; and for a time served In- 
gatestone HalJ, passing by the name of 
Holland. From 11 August, 1731, to 22 
September, 1737, he filled the office of Rec- 
tor of St. Omer's College. His death oc- 
curred in England December 30, 1743, O.S. 
We have from his pen a sensible treatise 
called " The Way to Happiness, " 8vo. 
London, 1726, pp. 360. In Cogblan's Di- 
rectory of 1773, a new edition of the "Way 
to Happiness, by Mr. Ecclestone. S. J." is 
offered at price 3s. 



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Eccop, GHAnLES. — This young mission- 
ary died 26 January, 1735, aet. 38, Soc. 20. 

*Edge, Charles, — This pious temporal 
coadjutor, after 29 years valuable service, 
died at Walten, 7 August, 1718, aet. 51. 

Eddisford, Edward, departed this life 
at Watten, 16 September, 1729, ast. 61, 
Soc. 29. 

Edisford, John. — Three members oc- 
cur of this name. The Isi was incumbent 
at Carlton, in Yorkshire, for many years : 
his unbounded zeal and charity are noticed 
in the Annual Letters of 1710. Recalled 
from the Mission to become Provincial of 
his Brethren, in 1719, he died in office the 
fol!o'.ving year at St. Oraer's, viz. 13 Au- 
gust, 1720, Get. 64, Eel. 45. 

The second, whose real name was Jack- 
son, died at Liege, 30 March, 1750, aet. 50, 
Soc. 30. 

The third, born in Lancashire, I Feb- 
ruary, 1738, and whose real name was Swa- 
brick, joined the Society in i760 : eleven 
years later I find him chaplain to the Honor- 
able Mr. Arundell, at Salisbury. Soon af- 
ter he removed to Exeter, where he culti- 
vated the vineyard with exemplary zeal and 
charity. He died there of the jail fever 
caught in attending the prisoners, on Satur- 
day, 20 November, 1789, and was buried 
in St. Olave's Parish Church. In the Pa- 
rochial llegister I read *' Rev. John Edis- 
ford, Minister of the Catholics in this city, 
was buried on the 24th of November, 1789." 

*Edmun»s, Edmund, of Devonshire, 
This confidential Jay-brother died at Ghent, 
20 September, 1643, aet. 75, Rel. 27, 

*Bi.LERKER, John, of Hart, near Hartle- 
pool, was born 1 August, 1732: died ascho- 
iastic at Liege, 29 April, 1766, aet, 24, Soc. 
8. 

Ellerker, Thomas, brother of John, 
born 21 September, 1738: was a worthy 
scholar, of such a master as F. John Thorpe. 
At the end of Rhetoric in 1755, this pro- 
raising young man entered the Novitiate, 
and in the sequel became one of the ablest 
professors of Theology that the English 
province ever produced. His treatise de 
Incarnatione may be regarded as a chef 
d'ceuvre. The emigration from Liege was 
fatal to a feeble constitution^ like his. He 
reached Stonyhurst28 August, 1794, com- 
pletely exhausted with the fatigue of travel- 
ling, and died there 1 May following. 
His precious remains were deposited in 
the Sodality Chapel, on the Epistle side of 
the Altar. His Grave Stone is thus in- 
scribed : — 

Hie jacet 
R. 1). Thos. 

Ellerker, 
Obiit 1 Maii, 
An. MDCCXCV, 
^tatis 
LVill. 

Jl. I. P. 



" From his cradle 
He wa8 a Scholar, and a ripe and good one, 
And to add greater honours to his age 
Than man could give him, he died fearing 
Heaven." 

Elliot, Nathaniel, (alias Sheldon) 
born in May, 1705 ; at the age of 18 joined 
the Society, and was admitted to the Profes- 
sion of the 4 Vows in 1741. Of a mild and 
friendly disposition and full of the religious 
spirit, he was called to the government of the 
colleges at St. Omer, Rome, and Bruges, 
and also to be Provincial of his BB. in very 
difficult and stormy times. This venerable 
Father, on quitting office, retired to Holt, 
where he joyfully met death 10 October, 
1780. 

"The Occasional Letters on the Af- 
fairs of the Jesuits in France," were col- 
lected and published in London under his 
direction ; with the Judgment of the Bis- 
hops of France concerning the Doctrine, 
Government, Conduct, and usefulness of 
the French Jesuits." He was also the 
translator of Pinamontis treatise of " The 
Cross in its true Light," dedicated to the 
Ex-Provincial, F, Thomas More, 12mo. 
London, 1775, pp. 161. 

Ellis, Richard, (alias Jwmp) born at 
Chester, 28 Feb. 1714. He left St. Omer's at 
the end of Rhetoric, for the Novitiate at 
Watten, 7 Septenaber, 1736. His death oc- 
curred in the island of St. Croix, in the 
course of the year, 1755. 

''Ellis, William, entered the Novitiate as 
a lay-brother, in 1614. I find him thus men- 
tioned in a letter of F. John Gerard, dated 
17 Oct. 1614. *' He was page to Sir Everard 
Digby, and was taken with him, though he 
might have escaped : for his master offered 
him horse and money to shift for himself; 
but the youth said, he would live and die 
with him : and so being taken, he was con- 
demned at Stafford, and should have been 
executed. He was offered to have his life 
if he would go to their church, which he 
refused. In the end, they saved him and 
some others. He hath some good friends 
near Sir Everard Digby's, whom 1 know ; 
and he is heir to £80 a year there, if his 
Father do him right." Abroad he passed 
by the name of John Williams. 

*Elmes, Augustine. — This humble lay- 
brother, who served the office of Porter *at 
Liege, for many years, deserved we trust, 
admission into the Gates of Heaven, 14 
November, 1705. He was then 59 years 
old, and had passed 31 in the Society. 

*Emerson, Ralph. — This faithful and 
prudent brother, left Rome, for England, on 
Low Sunday, 1580, with FF. Persons and 
Carapian. After invaluable services to them 
and to FF. Creighton, Holt, Weston, and 
others — and after enduring great hardships, 
and twenty years imprisonment, he went 
into banishment at the accession of James 
L, and died at St, Omer's, 12 March, 1604, 
Seep, 31, ot F. ftlore's History : also p, 399, 



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of F. Matthias Tanner's Confessors of the 
Society, who, however, incorrectly places 
his death about the year 1610. 

A reverend Father of this name, born in 
London, 1609, joined the Society at the 
age of 26 : was admitted to the rank of a 
Professed Father, 8 December, 1645, and 
died in England, 16 December, 1684. 

*Emmott, John. — This pious scholastic 
died at Liege, 1756, at. 23, Soc. 4. 

Emmott, John, younger brother, I 
take it, of JoA», was born 16 September, 
1734, and admitted in 1753. I find that he 
succeeded, 9 February, 1773, the Rev. Ber- 
nard Bolas, O. S. B., as incumbent at Gill- 
moss , in Lancashire. When the Society 
of Jesus was restored, the venerable old 
man hastened to rally round the ancient 
standard of St. Ignatius. Dying at Gill- 
moss 14 November, 1816, he was buried 
according to his desire, in St, Augustine's 
Chapel, Liverpool, 

Englefield, John. Where or when he 
was aggregated to the Order I cannot dis- 
cover; but 1 meet him at Liege, in 1704, 
studying the third year of Divinity. Shortly 
after his ordination, his services were re- 
quired for the English Mission, and he was 
certainly employed at Mr. Messengers', 
Fountaiui' Abbey, and for a time at Marn- 
hull, and at Clytha. He died 16 or 17 Feb- 
ruary, 1733. 

English, Giles, died at Prague, 4 July, 
1571. 

N.B. F. More, p. 30 and 32, mentions 
many English Members of the Order, who 
died abroad : perhaps the family name of 
some was English. F. Richard died at 
Loretto, 15 November, 1574 : F. Thomas 
died at Paris, 27 September, 1583; F. 
Richard died also at Paris, May, 1587. 

Errington, Thomas : his true name 
was Collingwood ; he was a native of Nor- 
thumberland, Appointed to the Yorkshire 
Mission, he gave himself continually to 
prayer, and the ministry of the word. His 
zeal and charity at York are honorably re- 
corded in the Annual Letters of 1672. He 
continued to labour in his blessed calling 
until his death, I November, 1680, est. 48, 
Soc. 28. 

Evans, Charles, a native of Caernarvon. 
This worthy Father having been ordered to 
Rome, was carried off within eight days 
after his arrival, and in the prime of life, by 
a putrid fever, 25 November, 1680, set. 40, 
Soc. 19, Prof. I. ♦* Virmagnarum par- 
tiunif solidi Judicii ; et multiplicis litera- 
tnrce Reconditorium." — An. Lit. 

Evans, Francis, (who often passed by 
the name of Andrews } was admitted at 
Watten, after finishing Rhetoric at St. 
Omer's College, in 1679. He died In Mon- 
mouthshire, 28 March, 1727, set. 68. 

Etans, Philip, of Monmouthshire, at the 
age of 20 united himself to the Society 
of Jesus. Sent to the Mission of South 
Wales, he soon grew ripe for heaven, by 



his inflamed zeal and charity. Apprehended 
in the house of Christopher Turbeville, his 
patron, during the National delirium, pro- 
duced by Gate's Plot, he could only appeal, 
from the iniquity of Man's Tribunal, to the 
justice of the All-seeing God, when he 
was condemned to the death of a traitor. 
Like the Apostles he rejoiced to suffer for 
the name of Jesus ; he publicly professed, 
that he would not forfeit the happiness of 
dying for it, to obtain all the crowns of the 
Universe. This victim of legal tyranny was 
sacrificed and butchered at Cardiff, 22 July, 
1679, set. 34, Soc. 14. See his Life and por- 
trait in the" Brevis Relatio felicis Agonis, 
4*c/*by Matthias Tanner: also the" i^Yorws 
Anglo Bavaricus. " pp. 178-181: also Dr. 
Challoner's valuable Memoirs of Mission- 
ary Priests. 

The 2 following Letters, I am credibly 
informed, were found in the Jail or Cell of 
F. Philip Evans. Probably they were in- 
tended for his Patron before-mentioned. 

Since that by Letters it is only permit- 
ted unto absent friends and acquaintance to 
converse, so much satisfaction have I for- 
merly received from your conversation 
that I would not pass by opportunity of 
enjoying it the way which is only afforded 
unto a confined man. But moreover, so 
many are the obligations which I owe you 
and your worthy Family, that it would be 
ingratiitude not to signify an acknowledg- 
ment of favours, and yield many thanks 
unto you for them. Hence mnst I assure 
you, that my daily and earnest requests 
unto Almighty God shall be to reward you 
for your goodness towards me. 'Tis He 
only who can abundantly recompence affec- 
tion and charity shown towards those who 
suffer for his sake : and it is He, unto whom 
we ought to betake ourselves for a stock of 
his holy Grace to endure with courage and 
patience what crosses and troubles his holy 
hand is pleased to lay upon us. I recom- 
mend myself in this behalf unto your best 
thoughts : so shall they not be wanting 
unto you from your 

Loving Friend and Servant, 

PHILIP EVANS. 

Loving Sir, 

I am so well acquainted with 
your Christian Fortitude, that it will not 
startle you, at seeing the writing of a 
dying hand ; but yet it is so friendly, that 
it shall not be wanting to be lifted up to 
Almighty God to implore his mercy and 
favor for you and your worthy Family. 
Did I think Mr. David Lewis^ was in vi- 
vis* I would recommend myself unto him. 
Just this afternoon we are going to execu- 
tion : no man can express the happiness to 
suffer death for God's sake ; and therefore 
I am confident, that you and your worthy 
family, will rather rejoice than lament. Be 

* This Reverend Father (commonly called 
Charles Baker, see p. 48.) was not executed at 
Usk,uutil27 August, 1679. 



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assured, that when I shall come to the Tri- 
bunal of Almighty God, you and your family 
(unto whom thanks for all favours) shall 
not want a friendly soul. My time is short, 
therefore recommending you and Friends to 
God's protection, I remain your 

Aflfectionate Friend. 

PHILIP EVANS. 

July 22d, 1679. 

Evans, Thomas— We meet with two 
members of this name. The 1st died a scho- 
lastic at Liege, 29 May, 1677. aet. 26. Soc.6. 
His edifying death is set forth in the An- 
nual Letters. 

The 2nd was born in London, 12 August, 
1715: was numbered amongst the children 
of St. Ignatius in 1736, taught a course of 
Humanities at St. Omer's College, where 
that youth of all merit, John Thorpe, was 
one of his pupils. F, Evans was promoted 
to the rank of a Professed Father, in 1754. 
and died in England 30 January, 1764), I 
have been informed that his real name was 
Fairchild. 

EvERARD, Thomas, ( alias Everet ) of a 
good family in Suffolk. Under F. Gerard 
he was tutored in the science of the Saints. 
In the 33rd year of his age, and in the year 
1593, he entered the Society, and until his 
pious death in London, 16 May, 1633, aet. 
73, maintained the character of a good and 
religious man, and a zealous Missionary. 
Notwithstanding his laborious occupations, 
a long and painful imprisonment, and his 
bodily infirmities, he found time to translate 
into English, a dozen Latin, French and 
Spanish Treatises on Ascetic subjects. All 
were printed at St, Omer's. See p. 762, of 
Southwell's Bibliotheca ; also Tanner's 
Confessors. Was not F.Everard the Romish 
Priest mentioned by Wood, p. 39, Vol. 2, 
Athen. Oxon, that had the conference with 
Dr. Fairclough, in Noble Street, London, 
25 January, 1626? 

♦EvERARD, William, died at St. Oraer, 
^8 September, 1667. 

Every, Francis, of Yorkshire : distin- 
guished himself by his method and taste as 
a Teacher, and by his talents for the Pulpit. 
At the time of the revolution he wassuperior 
of his brethren in the native county, and 
the annual letters testify to his zeal and con- 
stancy. He died 12 April, 1698, ajt. 68, 
Soc. 51. 

Every, William: admitted in 1669. 
When the revolution burst forth he was 
committed to York Jail ; but at length was 
restored to liberty, and died in peace 3 May, 
1698, aet. 50. 

Every, Thomas, born A. D, 1607, in 
Lincolnshire: at the age of 23 embraced the 
Institute of St. Ignatius. Twelve years later 
I meet withhim " in Missione CastrcnsV" 

EuciAN, Richard, became an alumnus of 
the English College at Rome in 1579: there 
he joined the Society: died at Eu in JNoi- 
niandy, on his way to England, in 1583. 



*EuPEN Van Andrew : admitted at 
Watten in 1735. He died at Rome in July 
1770, aged 65. 

EvisoN, John, of London, after culti- 
vating the English vineyard for above 40 
years, during which this confessor of the 
faith adorned the character of the Society for 
Piety, learning and prudence, he withdrew 
to Liege, where he finished his course 4 
June, 1651, aet. 78, Rel. 53, Prof. 29, 

Eyles, Ambrose, (alias Jaci:*o»,) admit- 
ted in 1704, professed in 1729; for many 
years was Superior of his brethren in York- 
hire. Obiit21 April, 1746, aet. 61. 

Eyre, Thomas; in 1689 he pronounced 
his simple vows at Watten : for some years 
was Professor of Theology at Liege : died 
in England 9 November, 1715, aged 45. 

Eyre, William, died in England 17 Feb- 
ruary 1724, aet. 46, Soc. 26. 

Eyston, George: I think of the ancient 
and respectable family of East Hendred, 
Berks, and second son of George Eyston, by 
his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Uormer, 
of Peterley, entered at Watten 7 May, 1689, 
left that Novidate for Liege, 6 September, 
1690. In the sequel he lived chiefly at Ghent, 
where he departed this lilb, 18 April, 1745, 
set. 74. 

Eyston, Robert, son of John Eyston, of 
Hendred, Esq. ( a great sufferer for the 
Catholic Faith) by his wife Mary Cold- 
liam, born 13 March, 1729 ; joined the 
Order in 1751. This Rev. Father died at 
Crandon Park, 16 January, 1766. 

Faircloth, Alexander, of London, join- 
ed the Society at the age of 29, was enrolled 
amongst its professed Fathers 27 June, 1619. 
After serving the Mission for 44 years, he 
paid the debt of Kalure in England, 4 Au- 
gust, 1645, ffit. 70. 

Fairclough, John, born at Wigan, 4 
May, 1787 ; studied at Stonyhurst, entered 
the Novitiate at Hodder in 1806 ; was ordain- 
ed Priest at Durham, 5 June, 1811. This 
exemplary Father laboured with unremitting 
zeal in the Stonyhurst Mission for several 
years. In 1827 he was removed to the Chap- 
laincy ofStockheld; but at the end of a 
twelvemonth was appointed Pastor to the 
congregation at South Hill, near Chorley, 
where he consummated his meritorious 
course 16 November, 1832, and was buried 
in his own chapel. 

*Faiufax, John. — We meet with two 
members of this name. The 1st a Temporal 
Coadjutor, who died at Rome, 4 December, 
1635, leaving behind him the lively remem- 
brance of eminent virtue, and superior quali- 
fications for his station of life. * 

The 2Dd a worthy Father, who died in 
England, 31 August, 1663. 

Fairfax, Thomas, (often called Beckett,) 
was admittedat Watten. 7 September 1675, 
and passed for a distinguished scholar. From 
the annual letters we collect that he was 
skilled in the Oriental languages," w/^tr^m 
tinffuarum orienlalium, '" that he was ap- 



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pointed in the reign of James II, professor 
of Philosophy in Magdalen College, Oxford, 
that when the revolution burst forth in all its 
horrors, he was attacked in the streets of 
that city, dashed on the ground and tram- 
pled upon, and narrowly escaped being mur- 
dered outright. This indeed was an event- 
ful crisis for the Fathers of the Society 
throughout England. By a letter of F. John 
Clare, dated 1 2 November, 1689, 1 learn 
that within the preceding twelvemonth, no 
less than nineteen Jesuits had been thrown 
into jail, and \\ia.'t forty at leasthad escaped 
into Flanders, not without considerable diffi- 
culty and danger. 

In 1701, F. Fairfax occurs as Procurator 
of the Province : and I find him living: in 
London, or the immediate vicinity, three 
years later. In the Annual Letters of 1710. 
he is stated to be serving the Mission in the 
College of St Thomas of Canterbury, and to 
deserve this character ; " Eminet zelo et 
fructu inter alios P. Thomas Fairfax. " 
That he was stationed at Wardour, is evi- 
dent from a document drawn up and signed 
by him, 4 April, 1711, andintitled " Proces- 
sus verbalis de depositione corporum S-S 
M M. Primi et Secundi, sub altare Sacelli 
Illmi ThomcB Comitis Arundellii, S. R I. 
Baronis de Warder in com. Wiltonice.'^ 

It sets forth that he had discovered in an 
obscure part of the mansion of Thomas* 
Lord Arundell, two bodies of Saints, in 
separate cases, that the seals on one had 
not been disturbed ; but the seals of the 
other had been broken; that on enquiring 
of his lordship whose bodies they were, and 
when brought hither ? he received for answer, 
that Pope Alexander VII. t had sent them 
by Mr. Edward Weyburn as a present to 
his mother, Lady Arundell ; but that he 
was ignora nt of their proper names, because, 
in the late troublesome times, the Letters, 
Apostolic, and of the Sacred congregation, 
had perished by fire, or some accident, or 
had been purloined : that on his relating 
these details to Bishop Bonaventure Gif- 
ford ( who had the charge of the Western 
district, from the resignation of Bishop El- 
lis, till the appointment of Dr. Prichard) 
his Lordship commissioned F. Fairfax to 
remove the bodies aforesaid, " e loco obscu- 
ro ad decentius Repositorium sub altare 
Sacelli preefati ; " that he had accordingly 
done so, and had assigned to them the 
naaaes of Primus and Secundum, untiW their 
real names could be ascertained. The instru- 
ment having been read to the said Noble 
Lord, to his brother, J and his son, H and 

* This noble Lord was the son of Henry 3rd 
Lord Arundell, by his wife Cicely, daughter of Sir 
Henry Compton, Knt. and relict of Sir John Fer- 
mour, Knt. He died 10 February, 1712. 

t Pope Alexander the VII. governed the Church 
from 1655 to 1667. 

I This brother, Henry, lived a WidoweF near the 
old Castle at Wardour, in apartments formed out of 
the Out-works, and died 9 August, 1721, aged S8. 



Richard Phillips, was signed by thena. 

F. Fairfax died 2 March, 1716, aet. 60. 

Another Father of this name was Mis- 
sionary at Stapehill, about the year 1732. 

Falconer, John, of Dorsetshire. In the 
Provincial's return of 1655. this Reverend 
and learned Father is reported to be then 82 
years of age, of which he had spent 51 in 
ttie Society , that h^ had been Penitentiary 
at Rome, had been numbered with the Pro- 
fessed Fathers since 22 July, 1619; and had 
been employed in the Mission for 30 years. 
This truly religious and charitable Father, 
meekly resigned his soul into the hands of 
his Maker, 7 July, the year following 
( 1656. ) Under the signature B. D. hepub- 
lished. 

1. The Refutation of the errors of 
John Thrask. " 4to. St.Omer, 1618. 

2. " The Life of the Blessed Virgin 
Mary." 12 mo. St. Oraer, 1632. 

Under the initials I. F., he published the 
following English Translations. 

3. " TheLooking-Glassof Conssience. " 
ISmo. St. Omer, 1632. 

4 " Fasciculus Myrrhce . de passione 
Domini," 12rao. St. Oirer, 1632. 

5. " The Life of St. Winefrid. " 8vo. St. 
Omer, 1635. 

6. The Life of St. Catharine of Swe- 
den. " ISmo. St. Omer. 

He left also in Manuscript ^'The Life of 
St. Anne. " 

Falconer, Stephen.— All that I can 
learn of this Father is, that he was a native 
of Kent, and died in England, 1 December, 
1670, ffit. 49, Soc. 31. 

Falkner, Thomas, of Manchester, and 
said to have been a pupil of the celebrated 
Dr. Richard Mead. After practising as a 
Surgeon at home, he made a voyage to Gui- 
nea, and subsequently sailed for the Brazils 
in the Assiento, in quality of Surgeon. Fal - 
ling dangerously ill at Buenos Ayres, he ex- 
perienced such charitable and courteous at- 
tentions from the hands of the Jesuits there, 
that he became not merely a convert to 
Catholicity, but also a candidate for admis- 
sion into their Society. He was duly 
received, and eventually qualified for the 
painful, but most meritorious and honourable 
life of a Missionary amongst the savage 
tribes of South America; and he laboured 
diligently in their service for nearly forty 
years . Returning to England, after the un- 
grateful and barbarous expulsion of himself 
and his brethren from those countries by the 
Spanish and Portuguese Government, he re- 
tired to Plowden Hall, County of Salop, 
where he died 30 January, 1784. 

In looking over some letters of F- John 
Thorpe, residing at Rome, to his friend the 
Rev. Charles Plowden. I discover the fol- 
lowing notices of F. Falkner. 



When a boy he had been besieged in the Castle, ia 
May. 1643. 

II His son Henry became 5th Lord Arundell, and 
died 25 June. 1726. 



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^'lOlhof April, 1784, F. Thomas Falk- 
Fser's death has been notified to his Spanish 
and American Confreres : they had much 
regard for him , recount many things in his 
commendation, desire me to enquire about 
the writings and valuable papers, which 
they suppose him to have had. Among 
these they specify a large collection (Four 
Vols, io Folio) of Botanical, Mineral, 
and like observations, made by himself, 
on the products of America. They wish 
to hear of them being published in England." 

" 20th of October, 1784. The Spanish 
Fathers here (Rome) hoped to find among 
F, Falkner's papers, his well known tiea- 
tise on American Distempers cured by 
American Drugs." 

"23d of July. 1798. I am again re- 
quired by our South American exiles, to 
procure, if possible, what writings have 
been left by F. Falkner. A French Trans- 
lation of a book printed by him in English, 
is said to be in the hands of some Jesuits at 
Bologna. Please to get what intelligence 
you can of this matter for the sake of 
many of his scholars, and who highly ve- 
nerate his memory." 

" I3th of September, 1788. Our Spanish 
American Fathers are glad to hear some 
fragments of F. Falkner's writing are to 
be found, and they hope they are within 
your reach. They who knew him in South 
America, retain a very high esteem of him, 
and of his knowledge of that country : they 
expect to find many things both useful and 
entertaining, in his loose and scattered pa- 
pers of whatever language." 

F. Raymund Diosdado Cabellero, in p. 
32, Part II. of his Supplementa Bibli- 
otheccB Scriptorum, S. J. Romae, 1816, 
positively asserts, that F. Falkner had 
edited *' Volumina duo de Anatome cor- 
poris hiimani, quce plurimi sunt pretii 
apud hujus Artis peritos." 

The English work of this Reverend Fa- 
ther is entitled " A description of Patago- 
nia and the adjoining parts of South 
America, containing an account of the 
Soil, Produce, Animals, Vales, Moun- 
tains, Rivers, Lakes, Sfc , of those coun- 
tries ; the Religion, Government, Policy, 
Customs, Dress, Arms, and Language of 
the Indians, and some particulars relat- 
ing to Falkland's Isla7ids ; illustrated 
with a new Map of the Southern Parts of 
America, engraved by Mr. Kitchen, Hy- 
drographer to the King." 4to. pp. 144, 
Hereford, printed by C. Pugh, and sold 
by T. Lewis, Russell Street, Covent Gar- 
den, London, 1774. 

In Richard Heber's Catalogue, No. 2557, 
is a treatise of the Patagonians, formed 
from the relation of F. Falkner, a Jesuit, 
by Penant, and printed at the private press 
of G«orge Allen, Esq. at Darlington, 4to. 
1788. pp. 16. The compiler, in a short 
preface, gives an account of his visits to 
F, Falkner, at Spetchley. " I found him 



to be a man of about seventy years of age, 
active in mind and body, brusque in his 
manners, having nerer shaken off those 
he had acquired in his thirty eight years 
among savages. He very freely communi- 
cated to me every thing he knew re- 
specting those people. He informed me 
that he was born at Manchester, that 
about the year 1731, he was a surgeon in 
the Assiento ship, and in that year, at 
Buenos Ayres, became a convert to Popery, 
and in due time of the Society of Jesuits, 
snd was sent on the Mission of Paraguay.'* 

Farmer, Ferdinand, whose real name 
was Steenmeyr, was born in Suabia 13 
October 1720: entered the Novitiate at 
Landsperge at the age of 23 : was admitted 
to the profession of the Four Vows 2 Feb- 
ruary 1761. United to the English province, 
he was sent to the Maryland Mission, where. 
Dr. Carroll said " he did much good until 
his death 17 August, 1786. '* 

Farrar, James, enrolled himself among 
the children of St. Ignatius in 1725, and 
amongst tbe professed Fathers in 1743, 
whilst he was serving the Maryland Mission . 
He actually died at Hooton in Cheshire, 18 
July, 1753, aet 57, and was buried in the 
Chancel of Esthara. 

Farrington, John, of Lancashire, but 
whose real name was Rishton. With his 
brother Ralph, he entered the Society in 
1624. Jo/m died at Ghent five years later: 
of Ralph's biography I can glean no further 
details. 

Farrington, Thomas, of Lancashire. 
From the provincial's return of 1655, I col- 
lect, that he was then 44 years old, of which 
he had passed 24 in the society, and 15 in 
the Mission. He continued to serve it full 
22 years longer, dying 25 January, 1678, aet 
67, and deserving to be characterised as "ze- 
lator animarumet strenuus operarius." 

Faunt, Laurence Arthur, according 
to R. Southwell, p 538 Riblioth, &c. was a 
native of Lancashire; but F. More, p. 17, 
was better informed in describing him as a 
Leicestershire man. Aulhony Wood, p. l99, 
Voi 1st Athense Oxon. expressly says that 
he was " the son of William Faunt, of Fos- 
ton, in Leicestershire, Esq. and that he was 
born of an ancient and genteel family living 
in that place, 1554. and being very studious 
and delighted in letters while he was a child, 
became fit for Academical Studies at 14 
years of age. Before he had completed two 
years at Merton College, Oxford, he was 
taken to Louvain, where he was aggre- 
gated to the Society. When he had com- 
pleted his higher studies, he was sent to 
Poland, acd was for several years the most 
distinguished professor of Greek and Theo- 
logy in the College of Posna. This wor- 
thy person gave way to fate at Wilna, 
28 February, 1591, after he had religiously 
served in the Society of Jesus about twenty- 
one years, " to their great renown and 
honour." Shortly before his death, he took 
his rank amongst ihe protcsse»l Fathers. 



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F.N. Southwell enumerates many of his 
Treatises on Religious Controversy, chiefly 
primted at Posna, from 1580 to 1591, and at 
the Press of John Wolrhabi. The most ce- 
lebrated are 

" CcBnce Lutheranorum et Calvinhta- 
rum Oppugnatio ac Catholicice Eucharis- 
tice Defensio, comprehensa Thesibus in 
Collegio Posnaniensi, S. J, in puhlicd dis- 
putatione propositis Anno 1586, Aprilis — 
die 4to. pp. 179. There is a second part of 
this work intitled De Augustissimo Mis- 
9ce Saanjicio'' grounded on the Thesia 
which was defended in the said College in 
October, 1586, 4to. pp. lU. His apology 
for his treatise " De sanctorum Invoca- 
tione et Veneratione '* was also printed by 
Birchmann at Cologne, in 1590. 

*Febure le Nicole. — This venerable 
lay-brother, died in the English College, at 
Liege, his usual residence, 17 November, 
1773,set. 81. Soc. 63. 

Feck, Thomas, of London, enlered an 
alumnus of the English College at Rome, in 
1597; joined the Society at the age of 28: 
was admitted to the profession of the Four 
Vows, 18 December, 1639. He was dis- 
tinguished, through the course of a long life, 
for blameless couduct, Jove of common life, 
dislike of singularity, and entire obedience, 
netiring from the fatigues of the English 
Mission to Liege College, he was found 
dead in his bed on the morning of the 1st 
June. 1647. set. 74. 
Felton John, see Grosse John. 
Fenwick, John, of county of Durham, 
For nearly four years, this Reverend Fa- 
ther had discharged the unostentatious but 
apostolic duties of a Missionary, when in the 
epidemic, occasioned by Gates'* own Plot, 
he was dragged to jail, and suffered so much 
from his chains and bolts, that it was once 
under the Doctor's deliberation, whether his 
leg should not be amputated. In those days 
of legal inhumanity, innocence afforded no 
protection, and this meek victim was hur- 
ried to slaughter at Tyburn, 30 June, 1679, 
N. S. set. 51, Rel. 21, Prof. 4. His pre- 
cious remains were interred in the church- 
yafd of St. Giles in the fields. See the 
*'Brevis Relatio" of F. Mathias Tanner, 
and the excellent memoirs of Dr. Chal- 
loner. 

Fermour, Thomas, of Bucks : at the 
age of 27 was admitted into the Novitiate, 
and ll years later, viz, 6 September, 1632, 
was promoted to the rank of a Professed 
Father. He lived to be Dean of the Pro- 
vince, — "et Professorum patrum anti- 
quissimus,^' after 56 years of Missionary 
labour, the venerable Patriarch was appre- 
hended as one of the conspirators in Gates' 

* In the National Panic, a pension of £1200 per 
annum, was votedto this" the most infamous of 
mankind " as Hume designates Dr. Titus Gates ! 
Will posterity believe that a gold medal was struck 
of the audacious perjurer, inscribed " The Popish 
Plot discovered byMEE'!!! One of those medals 
was sold at Dirasdale's sale, 15 July, 1824. No. 1175 



Plot, and cast into jail; but at the end of 
two years and a half, the Government came 
to the decision, that it was not imcorapati- 
ble with the safety of this Empire to grant 
him his discharge. He died shortly after 
his release, 19 April, 1683, at the advanced 
age of 89. 

Another Father of this name occurs as 
Missionary, in 1701-4, and died 28 May, 
1710. 

^Fendinier, Andrew, died at St, Gmer, 
29 March, 1760, set. 31. Soc. 9. 

Fep.nandez, Anthony. — This Portu- 
guese Father, and Confessor of Catherine, 
the Queen consort of Charles the II- was 
aggregated to the English Province. Obiit 
Londini, 23 Aprilis, 1674. 

Fesard, Giles. — In p. 23, Hist. Prov. 
Angl. More informs us, that he was admired 
at Rome, and after finishing his studies, 
went to Prague, as socius to F. John Paul 
Campanus, the Master of Novices, and that 
he died there at tlie end of a twlvemonth. 
Nadasi fixes his death 4 July, 1571. 

Fetherston, Thomas. — This worthy 
Missionary retiring to Ghent, died there 1 
October, 1724. 

*Feuke, Peter, died at St. Omer, 4 Gc- 
tober, 1712, set. 73, Rel. 45. 

Field, Robert. — All that I can glean of 
him is, that this English Father and Pro- 
fessor of Divinity in the College of St. 
Janeiro, about the year 1735, distinguished 
himself by his heroic charity with his bre- 
thren in attending his English Countrymen, 
who had been driven on their shores in the 
Brazils by an alarming illness. 

FiLCocK, Roger. — In page 106, Vol. II. 
Church History, Mr. Dodd has omitted to 
acquaint his readers, that this blessed Mar- 
tyr had embraced the " pious Institute of the 
Society of Jesus, " and that his glorious fel- 
low snSerer, Mark Barkworth, had adopted 
the Venerable Benedictine Order. The most 
worthy and judicious compiler of the Memoirs 
of Missionary Priests, Dr. Challoner, would 
have afforded correct information on this 
subject. It is undeniably true, that both 
these martyrs were educated for secular 
clergymen, and had been promoted to priest- 
hood, before they where received as Regu- 
lars ; but should a Protestant become a 
Catholic on his death bed, and it would not 
be unfair to rank him among Cat!iolics, — 
or, if a pious layman became a clergyman 
just before his death, and there would be 
no impropriety to place him in the obituary 
amongst the Clergy ,^we canimagine nogood 
cause for the silence of a Catholic Historian, 
as to the fact, of a clergyman aggregating 
himself to any religious Order approved of by 
the Catholic Church. " Omnis spiritus lau- 
det Dominum.'^ 

This holy priest was a native of Sand- ' 
wich, and went by the name of Arthur. F. 
John Gerard, who knew him intimately, 
mentions his execution with Mrs. Anne 
Line, " qute suspensa animam suatn Deo 



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%^ddidit simul cum P. Filcocke, sacerdole 
et Martyr e Hocietatis quern scepehabuer at 
Confessorem et semper amicum,^' at Ty- 
burn, 27 February, 1601. See his life in 
Tanner, Vol. I. p. 5!). How delightful to 
every Christian heart to read in F. More's 
History, pp. 256-9, the sentiments of Apos- 
lolic zeal and mutual affection which ani- 
mated the breast of this Father, and his 
Benedictine confrere. 

Fisher, John, (alias Peerci/) of Durham. 
This convert to the Catholic Faith, studied 
at Rome, and by a dispensation of Pope 
Clement VIII., was ordained priest before 
he had reached the canonical age. At 
Tournay, in 1594, he united himself to the 
Society. On his return towards England, 
through Holland, he was stopped at Flushing 
by some of the English soldiery, and most 
brutally treated. Arriving in England he 
was committed to Bridewell; but at the 
end of seven months, he effected his escape, 
with several other Catholics. In F. John 
Gerard's house, in London, he found a 
place of refuge. Proceeding thence to the 
North of England, he was the happy instru- 
ment in the hand of God to reconcile to the 
Church his mother, sister, and certain other 
members of his family. After some time, 
his friend F.Gerard, an excellent judg3of 
qualifications, procured him for his col- 
league at Lady Vaux's house, in Northamp- 
tonshire, but was not allowed to retain him 
beyonda twelvemonth, as Sir Everard Dig- 
by prevailed on the Superior, F. Garnett, 
lo surrender him for his chaplain. Indeed 
F. Fisher was every where in request, and 
endeared himself to all, who could appre- 
ciate goodness of heart, disinterested zeal, 
accuracy and soundness of Judgment, and 
profound erudition. During his intervals 
of personal liberty, for he v.'as four times a 
prisoner for the Catholic Faith, (the last 
time I believe he was committed to the 
Oatehouse, just before the Christmas of 
3634,) he was indefatigable in preaching, 
instructing, and writing ; and few Mission- 
aries have been cheered and blest with wit- 
nessing such fruits of their labours in the 
abundant harvest of souls. Amongst his 
numerous conquests, we may mention the 
mother of Geor^.e Villiers, the Duke of 
Buckingham, that was assassinated by 
Felton at Portsmouth. For his greater 
m'erit. Almighty God v/as pleased lo afflict 
him with aCancer during the last two years 
ofhislife; but rewarded his patient resign- 
ation under suffering, with endless comfort 
and happiness, at London, 3 December, 
1641. F. Fisher, at the time of his death, 
wns " Septuagenario N a j or, " and had 
been professed in the Order since 1609. 

'J'he world is indebted to this able Contro- 
vertist for the following works. 

L Treatise of Faith, wherein is 
hriejiy and plainly shown, a direct nay 
hy which every man may resolve and set- 
tle his mind in all Doubts, Questions and 

X 



Controversies concerning matters of 
Faith. " 8vo. St. Omer, 1614. pp. 188. 

N.B. The 1st edition of this work (but 
which I have not been able to see) was 
published in London in 1600. 

2. " ^ Replij made unto Mr, Anthony 
Wotton and Mr. John White, Ministers, 
wherein it is showed that they have not 
sufficiently answered the Treatise of 
Faith, and wherein also the chief points 
of the suid Treatise are more clearly 
declare d, and more strongly confirmed.''' 
4t(). St Omer. 1612, pp. 264. 

N B. To this is added " ^ C/iai/en^re to 
Protestants, requiring a catalogue to be 
made of some prof essors of their faith in 
all ages, since Christ." pp. 61. 

Q. Was he not the Author of " A Reply 
to Dr. Featly and Dr. White, who have 
undertaken lo show a visible Protestant 
Church in aZ^ ages." Bvo. 1625, pp. 169. 

3. An Answer unto the Nine Points of 
Controversy, proposed by our late Sov- 
eraygne, of famous memory, (James I.) 
unto M. Fisher, of the Society of Jesus ; 
and the Rejoynder unto the reply of Dr. 
Francis White, Minister; with the Pic- 
ture of the said minister, or Censure of 
his Writings prefixed. " 4to. St. Omer, 
1625, pp. 400. The Picture of Dr. White 
prefixed, is printed in 1626, and comprises 
160 pages. 

Fisher, Johm, of York^re ; at the age 
of 20 entered the Novitiai(^fcd eight years 
later was sent to the DevWshire Mission, 
where I think he died, ,20 October, 1654, 
agt. 46. 

Another Father of this name died in 
E ngland , 20 October, ] 654. 

Fisher, Laurence. I have met with a 
Father of this name, who is slated to have 
been a native of Lancashire, to have 
been admitted into the Orde r at the age of 
21, and to his Religious Profession 19 Sep- 
tember, 1641, being then 36 year* of age. 
I find nothing more to serve as a clue to his 
Biography. 

FisHEii, Philip, one of the earliest Mis- 
sionaries in Maryland. In the Provincial's 
Return of 1642, F. Fisher is then certified 
to be superior of that interesting portion of 
Christ's vineyard, as being 47 years old, of 
which he had spent 25 in the Society, and 
that he had been enrolled amongst the 
Piofessed Fathers since 26 October, 1630. 
As the parliamentary cause grew successful 
in England, so did persecution increase 
against the Catholics of Maryland, and he 
was compelled to separate during three years 
from his flock. The following letter addressi- 
ed to the General of the Society, F. Vin- 
cent Caraffa, may deserve transcribing. 
Our very Revd. Father in Christ, 

At length my companion and myself 
reached Virginia, in the month of January, 
after a tolerable journey of seven weeks: 
tliere 1 left my companion, and availed my- 
self of the opportunity of proceeditig to 



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Maryland, where I arrived in the course of 
February. By the singular providence of 
God, I found my flock collected together, 
after they had been scattered for three long 
years; and they were really in more 
flourishing circumstances than those who 
had oppressed and plundered them: with 
what joy they received me, and with what 
delight I met them, ib would be impossible 
to describe, but they received rae as an 
Angel of God. I have now been with them 
a fortnight, and am preparing for the pain- 
ful separation; for the Indians summon me 
to their aid, and they have been illtrealed by 
the enemy, since I was torn from them. I 
hardly know what to do, but cannot attend 
to all. God grant that I may do his will 
for the greater glory of his name. Truly, 
flowers appear in our land: may they attain 
to fruit. A road by land, through the Fo- 
rest, has just been opened from Maryland to 
Virginia ; this will make it but a two day's 
journey, and both countries can now be 
united in one Mission. After Easter I shall 
wait on theGovernor of Virginia on momen- 
tous business, may it terminate to the praise 
and glory of God. My companion, I trust, 
still lies concealed, but I hope will soon com- 
mence his labour under favourable auspices. 
Next year I trust to have two or three other 
colleagues, with the permission of your 
paternity, to whose prayers and sacrifices I 
earnestly commend this Mission, myself, 
and all mine. JB[ 

Dated from dryland, this 1st March, in 
the year of God, 1648. 
I remain your very Reverend Paternity's 
Most unworthy servant and son in Christ, 
Philip Fisher. 

Fisher, Robert. This member of the 
Order is recorded in the Necrology to have 
died in England, but in vain I look for any 
circumstantial information. 

FiTTON, Francis, of Staffordshire, joined 
the Society in 1615, was professed 15 March, 
1634. After teaching Philosophy, was or- 
dered to the English Mission, which he cul- 
tivated until his happy death, 15 April, 
1673, ffit. 78. 

FiTzHERBEOT, Francis, The annual let- 
ters relate a dreadful storm, which he encoun- 
tered, in 1654, on his passage to Maryland. 
This worthy Father finished his course at 
St Omer, 22 May, 1687. 

Fitzherbert, Robert, of Swynnerton : 
a most angelical youth, who was admitted 
into the Order just before his death, in 
1708. O f him it is recorded " baptismalem 
innocentiam Sepulchro intulit : Angeli 
instar terrestris et in sceculo et in Semi- 
nario vixit." 

Fitzherbert, Thomas. This truly 
great man was born at Swynnerton, in Staf- 
fordshire, and was only son of William 
Fitzherbert, Esq., by his wife Isabella 
Swynnerton, and grandson of the celebrated 



lawyer,* Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, of Nor* 
bury, Derbyshire. At a proper age he vms 
sent to Oxford, where he improved an exceU 
lent capacity, by the study of the best au- 
thors. His zeal for the Catholic Faith ex- 
posed him to ridicule and persecution, and 
he was actually sentenced to a year's ira* 
prisonraent, for refusing to conform to the 
Church established by law, and for saying 
his prajers like Daniel, Chap, Vl. in his 
own way, and as he had been accustomed to 
do before. In him the Catholic Religion 
found a constant friend and advocate, and a 
generous protector ; he was never so happy 
as when he had opportunities of administer- 
ing assistance and hospitality to Priests 
and Religious. On account of the intense 
heat of the persecution, it was judged ad- 
viseable for him to retire with bis young 
wifet and family to the Continent, and he 
was greatly admired in the courts of France 
and Spain. About the age of 36 he lost his 
wife, and he then decided on embracing the 
Ecclesiastical State. On 24 March, 1602, 
he was promoted in Rome, to the Priest- 
hood. From his own declaration we learn 
that he had made a vow 15 August, 1606, 
of entering into the Society of Jesus ; but 
I cannot discover that he appeared in the 
Jesuits' habit until 1613. After passing 
through several offices, he succeeded F. T, 
Owen, as Rector of the English College, at 
Rome, in 1618, and his government of it 
for twenty-two years was distinguished by 
integrity, prudence, and charity. He died 
in office, between 6 and 7 o'Clock in the 
morning, 17 August, 1640. at the Patriar- 
chal age of 88, and was buried in the Col" 
lege Chapel. F. Thomas Courtenay, rector 
of the English College, pronounced his £u' 
logium, which I inserted in pp. 171-3 of the 
Catholic Spectator of 1823. 

With the exception of a Latin treatise 
against Machiavel's Work an sit utili- 
tas in crimine ; Svo. Rome. 1610, all his 
other publications are in English, viz. Dc- 
fence of the CatholycTce cause, contayninff 
a treatise in confutation of sundry un-^ 
truthes and slanders, Sfc. with an Apologif 
of his innocence in a fayned Conspiracy^ 
against her Majesty's person, for the 
which one Edward Squyre was wrong ' 
fully condemned and executed in No- 
vember, 1598, wherewith the Author and 
other Catholykes were also falsely chav" 
ged:* 4to. St. Omer, 1602. The Defence 

* This excellent ."{udge on his death bed required 
a solemn promise of his children neither to accept 
grants nor to make purchases of Abbey Lands, and 
then surrendered bis soul to God, May 27, 1538. 

f In 1580 he married Dorothy, the only child of 
Edward East, of Bleadlow, County of Bucks. Who 
was John Fitzherbert, Esq. at whose house, at 
Padly. the Martyrs, F. Garlick and Ludlara were 
apprehended, by Geo., the Earl of Shrewsbury, in 
1588 ? For harbouring them he lost his Estate, lay 
in Derbyshire jail 2 years, then removed toLondon,- 
" and lived six years there, in great want, and at- 
the last died," 



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tontains 71 pages; The Apology 51 pages. 

2. ** A Treatise concerning Policy and 
Religion^ wherein the injirmitie of hu- 
mane wit in amply declared, and the ne- 
cessity , fruit, and dignitie of Christian 
Religion in Commonwelth is evidently 
shewedj with the absurdity of false reli- 
gions^ many Controversies in Religion 
discussed ; finally proving that the Ca- 
tholique Roman Religion only doth make 
n ftappy Commonwelth 2 vols. 4to. 

A masterpiece of Reasoning and Learn- 
ing, and dedicated to his Son Edward 
Fitzherbert, who died 25 November. 16l2. 
The 1st part was printed atDouay, in 1606, 
4to. pp. 462, the 2nd part was printed also 
at Douay, in 1610, 4to, pp. 697. Mr. Wood, 
in theAthenaeOxon, p. 538, says the 2 parts 
were reprinted together, in 1615, also that a 
third part vras published in London, A D. 
1652. 

3. supplement to the Discussion of 
M, D. Barlow' s answer to the judgment of 
a Catholike Englishman, Sec. interrupted 
by the death of the Author, F. Robert 
Perstms." In this work he briefly censures 
Mr. J. Dunne\' Book, entitled ^'-Pseudo 
Martyr,'' 4to St. Oraer, 1613, pp. 400. 

4. " ^ confutation of certaine Absur- 
dities, Falsities, and Follies, uttered by 
M. D. Andrews, in his answer to Cardi- 
nall Bellarmine's Apology," 4to. St. Oraer, 
1613. 

5. " Reply to Roger Widdrington's 
ivere Preston,) Disputatio Theologica, de 
•Juramento Fidelitatis aApolgia Cardina- 
Us Bellarmini pro jure Prineipum. " 
1614, pp. 230. 

6. *' Obmutesce of F, T, to the Eppheta 
vf Dr. Collins, " 8vo. St. Oraer, 1621, pp. 
i360. 

Did he not publish the English translation 
of Turselinus' Life of St. Francis Xavier, 
4to. Paris, 1632, pp. 614. There was for- 
merly in the English College at Rome, a 
Portrait of F. Fitzherbert, of which a copy 
by Miinch was in the Sacristy at Wardour 
Castle. 

Q, Who was the Nicholas Fitzherbert 
who so virulently opposed F. Persons, at 
Home ? In a M S. I read what follows *' F. 
Persons returned from Naples to Rome, 8 
October, 1598. All the English in Rome 
came to the College, to hear his reasons 
against Mr. Nicholas Fitzherbert. So 
noteth Mr. Baines la his diary. This 
Nicholas Fitzherbert, a great adversary of 
F. Persons, was drowned in a brook, called 
la Peta, some miles this side Florence, 6 
November, 1612." 

Flaccus, (query, Flock,) William ; a 
native of Suffolk : quitting his native coun- 
try for conscience sake, he repaired to 
Rheiras : afterwards proceeding to Rome, he 
incorporated himself with the Society, and 
had the houour of being a fellow Novice 
vrith St. Aloysius. In 1592 was employed 
fey F. Persons, to lay the foundations of St. 



Omer's College ; for two years he eon- 
tinned to govern it, and by his active zeal 
and systematic steadiness, mainly contribute" 
ted to its subsequent stability. For the 
greater part of his life he had the superin- 
tendance of its pecuniary concerns. In 
1632 we find him Rector of the House of 
Probation, at Ghent, where on 21 June, as 
he left in writing, he experienced the effi- 
cacy of St. Aloysius' intercession in his 
favour. See p. 461, of More's Hist. He 
survived 5 years later, after his wonderful 
cure, dying in 1637, in the 83rd year of his 
age. 

Fleetwood, John : entered the Novi- 
tiate 31 October, 1723; for a short time 
served Broughton Hall : died in the flower 
of life, whilst actively engaged in the Mary- 
land Mission, 5 January, 1734, aet. 31. 

Fleetwoob, Walter, was born in Lon- 
don, 9 March, 1699. In a fragment of a 
Diary, formerly kept at Watten, I discover 
the following entries, '* 1735, June 16, Mrs. 
Fleetwood arrived from St. Omer, " ** June 
20 Mr. Fleetwood admitted. " 

Of his subsequent life I can learn nothing 
but that be died at Liege, 10 July, 1774. 

Flint, Thomas, left Rome for the Eng* 
lish Mission, in the spring of 1602, four 
years later I find him discharged from p risen* 
The annual letters, in announcing his death, 
in the College of the 12 Apostles, 26 Decem- 
ber, 1638, relate that he had borne testiraony 
to Christ in the loss of liberty, and chains^ 
and tortures. 

Flint, William, entered the English 
CoUeg^e at Rome, in 1648, and subsequently 
joined the Society, but I cannot pursue his 
history, 

Flisk, William ; This zealous Mission- 
ary intheBishoprick of Uurham, died early 
in 1640, after a very short illness, contracted 
in attending the sick. The Annual Letters 
describe him as operarius insigniter 
industrius.^^ 

Flower, Charles, of Essex; died in 
England, 23 December, 1655, aet. 36. ReU 
34, Miss. 27. 

Floyd, Francis, died in Maryland, 13 
November, 1729, set. 37; on 15 August, the 
preceding year, he had been enrolled 
amongst the professed Fathers. 

Floyd, Henry, of Cambridgeshire, elder 
brother oH John, the doughty Controvertist* 
In a MS. of F. Persons, I read that Henry 
had defended universal Theology, at Seville, 
with great eclat, 20 February, 1593, and 
was for a time stationed in the new Serai- 
nary, at Lisbon, Returning to England, he 
was appointed Chaplain to the Southcott 
faraily, vixit cum Domino Joanne South- 
cott, (viro inter Catholicos rominatis- 
sione) undeviginti annis, " fol,286. Hist* 
Prov. Ang. a P. H. Mors ; and for 
nineteen years filled that situation, 
with disinterested zeal, and exemplary pro* 
priety; but during his Missionary career he 
could not escape apprehension. Newgate, 



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the Fleet, Fraralinghara, and Winchester 
jails had the honour of harbouring this bold 
confessor of Jesus Christ. In 1610 he was 
admitted to the profession of the Four 
Vows. The venerable Father exchanged 
a life of labour for ease and happiness, dy- 
ing in London, 7 March, 1641. He is in- 
correctly called Roger, pp. 412, vol. I. of 
the old edition, page 222 of the new edition, 
of Missionary Priests. 

Another Father of this name was living 
in England in 1655, was then 34 years of 
age, of which he had passed 12 in the 
Society, 

Floyd, John, joined the Society at 
Home in 1592. In due time he was sent to 
the Mission, but in attempting to penetrate 
to F. Oldcorne, detained a close prisoner in 
Worcester Jail, during the early part of the 
year 1606, he himself was apprehended, 
and lay in durance vile for a twelvemonth, 
when he was sentenced to perpetual banish- 
ment. Proceeding to St. Omer, he con- 
tinued his indefatigable exertions, as a 
preacher, for which office he possessed 
singular qualifications ; his zeal for souls 
brought him back to England, where he la- 
boured with renewed industry and success. 
After some years devoted to the exercise of 
his apostolic functions, his superiors re- 
called him to Louvain, to fill the chair of 
professor of Divinity ; and few men were 
fitter for the office. Wood, p, 154, Vol. II. 
Athense Oxen, admits that he was " a per- 
son excellently learned as well in Philoso- 
phy as Theology," and yet he was more 
eminent for his union with God, and his 
spirit of docility and obedience. At length 
he obtained permission to retire to St. 
Omer, where he was suddenly taken off by 
Apoplexy, 16 September, 1649, set. 77, Rel. 
57, Prof. 40. From his Masterly pen the 
public was favoured with the following 
works in Latin : — 

1. " Synopsis Apostasice Marci An- 
thonii cle Dominis ex ipiusmet Libro 
delincata." 8vo. 1617, Antwerp. 

2 . • ' Detectio Hypocrisis Marci Anthonii 
de Dominis," 8vo. Antwerp, 1619. 

3. Censura X Librorum de Repuhlica 
Ecclesiasticd M» Anthonii de Dominis.'" 
l2rao. Antwerp, 1620, pp. 182 ; and at Co- 
logn, in 8vo. 1621. 

In these three Works the learned 
Author assumes the name of " Fidelis An- 
nosus Verimontanus . * * 

In English he published, 

1. ** Anstver to William Crashair, Mi- 
nister" 4io. St. Omer, 1612. 

2. " Answer to Sir Edward Hobbes, on 
Purgatory,'' 4to. St. Omer, 1613. 

3. *' God and the King, against Inno- 
vators," St. Omer, 1620. 

4. " St. Augustine's Meditations," 
16mo. St. Omer, 1621. 

N.B. A second edition with the Solilo- 
quies, and Manual of the Saint, was printed 
at Paris, 1655, in 12mo, pp. 430. 



5. ''A Word of Comfort to the English 
Catholics," 4to. St. Omer, 1623. 

6. " The Sacrifice of the Mass," from 
the Spanish of Molina, 4to. St. Omer, 
1623, pp. 288. 

7. On the Real Presence.'' St. Omer, 
1624. 

8. An Answer to Francis Whitens 
Reply concerning Nine Articles offered by 
King Jameg to F. John Fisher ^ S.J. St. 
Omer, 1625. 

9. *• An Apology of the Holy See Apos- 
tolic' s proceeding for the Government of 
the Catholicks of England during the time 
of persecution, with a Defence of a Re li- 
ons State, written by Daniel, of Jesus, 
reader of Divinity," 4to. Rouen, 1630, 
pp. 263. 

N.B. An enlarged Latin Edition of this 
work, dedicated to the Bishops of France, 
appeared from the St. Omer's Press the 
year following, 1631. To this translation 
is prefixed " Admonitio ad Lectorem ad- 
modum R. Domini, D. Hermanni Loe- 
melii S. T. Licent. et Canonici Regular- 
is Ecclesia Cathedralis Audomarensis.'* 
Perhaps this induced Mr. Dodd to assert 
p. 105-6, Vol. III.. Church History, that 
F. Floyd wrote against the Bishops of 
France, under the disguised name of Her- 
mannus Loemelius. The silence of F. 
N. Southwell, pp. 449, and 837. would 
otherwise satisfy me of Mr. Dodd's mis- 
take. 

10. " The- Church Conqiterant over hu- 
man Wit, againut C hilling worth." 4to. 
St. Omer, 1633. 

11. " The Total Sum against Chilling- 
worth." 4to. St. Omer, 1633. 

12. " The Imposture of Puritan Piety, '^ 
St. Omer. 1639. 

N. Southwell, p. 450, Bibliolheca, states 
that he was also tbe author of a " Treatise 
on Holy Pictures," and some other minor 
works, alia qucedam opscula. 

Another F. John Floyd died in England,, 
29 August, 1670, of whom 1 can glean no 
further particulars. 

*FoNTAiNE, Herman. — This native of 
Liege, after having been united to the Eng^ 
lish Province 47 years, died al Watten, & 
October, 1767, set. 80. 

Fontaine, John: was born in France S& 
May, 1739 ; admitted into the Order, 13 
September, 1757 r at the expulsion of his 
brethren from his native country, was draf- 
ted into the English Province, and was long 
employed in the English Mission. F. John 
Fontaine served also the Bristol Mission 
for about two years between F. Scuda- 
more'a' death, and F. Tho;nas Brewer's 
arrival there. Re-listing in the Revived 
Society in 1805, he at length repaired to 
Paris, where he died 29 March, 1821. 
Messrs. Keating, in the Directory of 1822, 
relate that he was the author of " several 
religious Works. " 
Forcer, Francis,, Co. of Durham. In 



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llie Provincial's List of 1642. he h des- 
cribed as being then 59 years old, of which 
he had spentSS in the Society, and 13 in the 
Mission, and that the date of his Profession 
ivas 19 March, Two years later I 

meet with him at Madrid. His death oc- 
curred in Eng-land, 5 March, 1655. ajt. 72- 

FoHD, Henry, died in England 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1638. 

*FoRD, JoHV, of Staffordshire. After 
serving his brethren for half a century with 
admirable diligence, this Temporal Coad- 
jutor passed to everlasting rest, at St. 
Oraer's. 4 February, 1663, aet. 67. 

* Forest, Philip. — He was a native of 
Artois. From the catalogue of 1655, 1 col- 
lect that he was then 30 years of age, and 
was of four years standing in the Order ; 
but I cannot follow out his biography. 

Forrester, Charles, (alias Fleury) 
was born in France, 21 A pril, 1739: enter- 
ed the Novitiate in 1756. From his own nar- 
s-ative I learn, that in company with F. 
Edward Howard, he reached Ostend, on 
^iaturday evening, 3 August, 1767, to pro- 
ceed to his destination, Linstead Lodge, 
the seal of Lord Tenyham. Both 
wished to say Mass the next morning 
before they embarked for the English Mis- 
sion : thei." host accommodated t»^.eni and 
served ttiem himself at 3 A.M. ; but warned 
them that " un Ministre Anglican les 
{jiieltoit soigneusement. " In effect this 
plotter of mischief had given up his lodging 
at another Inn, and his place in another ves- 
sel, to be near them and embark with thetn. 
On arriving at Dover, his information pro- 
cured the Missionaries a severe sifting at the 
custom house ; but Mr. F. had previously 
arranged to |send their books, relics, &c., 
by another way. Their prying companion 
stuck close to them, and followed thera to 
Canterbury, and thence to Rochester, 
Here Mr. F. fortunately met Mr. Porter, 
or his chaplain Mr. Gregson, and related 
how ihey were circumstanced. It was then 
settled that a post-chaise should be quietly 
sent for, into which Mr. Forrester stept, 
and drove off straight for Linstead Lodge. 
On a sudden the spy missed half his prey ; 
his untired malice vowed revenge : '• il prit 
les devants" and on arriving at. Deptford, 
Mr. Howard experienced the most shame- 
ful treatment, in consequence of the par- 
sdn's misrepresentations. 

When Mr. Forrester had been at Lin- 
stead Lodge about two or three years, a 
young woman applied to him for instruc- 
tion, desiring to be a Catholic. The zeal- 
ous parson of the parish, Mr. Fox, got 
intelligence of this, and in the fermentation 
of his spirit, acquainted his Grace of 
Canterbury, who gave him directions, nay 
orders, to stop the impending evil, and 
make the visitation, una.sked, and he must 
know how unwelcome in an Englishman's 
house, to catechise his chaplain, and that 
Englishman, Lord Tenyham, a peer of the 
Y 



Realm. Enjin, the parson arrived in his 
canonicals, and desired at once to see Mr, 
Fonestar ; who obeying the impertinent 
summons, attended the Archbishop's dele^ 
gate in a small parlour, when the following 
dialogue took place; — 

Parson. Servant Sir. 

Mr. Forrester. Your's Sir. 

P. You are a Popish Priest I believe ? 

Mr. F. I have the honour to be Lord 
Tenyham's chaplain. 

P. You preach, I understand. Sir ? 

Mr. F. I make it my endeavour to give 
every one who addresses himself to me, all 
the satisfaction in ray power. 

P. And pray do you talk to such per- 
sons in Latin or English ? 

Mr. F. As I always endeavour to speak 
so as to be understood, I should defeat* my 
own purpose, and act like a fool, to talk to 
persons, mostly of the lower class, and il- 
literate, in the Latin Language. 

P. Oh! very well Sir, you may speak as 
you please to those of your own way of 
thinking ; but I understand you are tam- 
pering with N, N. : 1 promise, if you at- 
tempt making proselytes, that 1 shall enforce 
the Penal Laws* against you. I have full 
authority, and even orders so to do ? 

Mr. F, (Rising from his chair, and 
presenting his hand cordially to his visi- 
tor.) Give me leive, dear Sir, in such 
case to add to my respect for you, the war- 
mest assurances of gratitude, as to a person 
whom I must regard, as singularly and truly 
my benefactor. 

P. What do you mean. Sir ? 

Mr. F. Exactly what I say, Sir. For 
in the event of your putting your threat into 
execution, I shall be raised by you to the 
blessing pronounced by Jesus Christ him- 
self, upon those who suffer persecution for 
justice sake. 

P. ^(Astonished and a little confused) 
I dont understand you : what do you 
mean ? 1 never heard any one talk before 
in this manner ? are you in earnest? 

Mr. F. From the very bottom of my 
heart I assure you. Sir, that such are my 
real sentiments. 

♦ Until the breaking out of the American War, 
the Knglish Catholics Ijnew not what it was to ex- 
perience any thing lilje toleration from the govern- 
ment. On 23 August of the very year 1767, that 
Mr. Forrester reached England, Mr. Malony received 
sentence, at Croydon, of imprisonment for life, for 
the mere exercise of his priestly functions. Seve- 
ral chapels were suppressed the same year. By the 
express commands of King George the Third, July 

1767. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and 
their respective suffragans were to procure " com- 
plete lists of all Papists or reputed Papists, dis- 
tinpuishinfi: sex, age, occupation, and length of resi- 
dence." Rev. James Webb, wa» tried in the Court 
of King's IJench for liis Priestly office, 25 June. 

1768, and (he Honourable and Right Rev. Dr. James 
'J'albot, the year after, l)eforc Lord Mansfield!!! 
What a contrast to the present period, when 
every Freeman rejects the word toleration, ag beg- 
garly and worthless, as implying a right in weiik 
mortals to lower or raise the scale of porseculing 
contcienoe .' 



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The Champion of intolerance gradually 
calmed down, waved the subject, and took 
a very civil leave. A fevir weeks later, he 
sent a most polite inyitalion to Lord and 
Lady Tenyham, to solicit the honour of 
their company to a fete, and particularly 
requested that the Rev. Mr. Forrester 
might be of the party. Nay, after some 
months, he actually sent his two sons to 
be educated at St. Oraer's College ! So 
much for consistency of principle, and still 
more for the power of mildness and hu- 
mility." 

Mr. F. remained at Lord Tenyhara's till 
28 January, 1775. On 10 February that 
year, he reached Old Wardour, as Mission- 
ary. On 6 October, the same year, he re- 
moved witii the Arundell family into the 
preSent noble mansion. Two large rooms 
served for a temporary Chapel, until the 
new structure was solemnly blessed, on 31 
October, 1776, and opened the next day 
with a solemn High Mass. At the end of 
13 years he resigned the charge of that nu- 
merous congregation, for the situation of 
Domestic Chaplain to his noble patrons. 
In 1810, he quitted Wardour with the dow- 
ager Lady Arundell, for her seat at Irnham, 
in Lincolnshire, and adhered to her till her 
pious death, 20 June, 1813. Shortly after 
he retired to Newhall, in Essex, where he 
closed a long life of merits and good works, 
by the death of the just, 2 May, 1825, set. 
86. 

F, Forrester, was an able, zealous, and 
amiable Priest ; and from goodness of heart, 
hastily associated himself, in 1802, to the 
Paquanarists, who had then an establish- 
ment at Kensington House, near London ; 
but he soon discovered his mistake, and 
eventually re-united himself to the restored 
Society of Jesus. 

FoRTEScuE, Adrian, see Talbot, Adrian. 

FoRTEScuE, Francis, (sometimes called 
Stanly^) after studying Rhetoric at St. 
Omer's, was admitted into the Noviceship 
at Watten, and made the simple vows, 8 
September, 1684. I am unable to pursue 
his history. 

Foster, Charles, of London, (though 
another account says of Hertfordshire) 
Retiring from the Mission, he died of the 
•tone, at Ghent, 2 June, 1680, set. 57, Soc. 
37. The annual letters describe him as 
^*salutis animarum sitientissimus et pau- 
pertatis Religiosce juxta tenacissimus. " 

Foster, Francis, of London ; at the age 
of 21 consecrated himself to Religion, in 
the Society of Jesus, and was admitted to 
the profession of the Four Vows, 8 Decem- 
ber, 1635. After teaching Theology at 
Liege, and training up the Novices at Wat- 
ten, in the spirit of their Institute, he was 
declared the 6th Provincial of his Brethren, 
in 1650; but shortly after the expiration of 
the triennial term of office, died in England, 
7 October, 1653, set. 62, to the deep regret 
of all who could appreciate worth and learn- 
ing. 



♦ Foster, Henrt, stiled " homo nobilis et 
copiosus " in the annual letters. On the 
death of his lady, this Suffolk gentleman de- 
cided on embracing the religious state. Six 
of his daughters became Nuns, and his son 
Joseph consecrated himself to God in the 
Society. This very pious head of a pious 
family died at Ghent 5 December, 1679, set. 
75. Rel.27. 

Foster, John, of Herts, and of a good 
family : his sister married Sir Robert Hod- 
son. This Reverend father was serving the 
Lancashire Mission in 1655 ; was then 37 
years of age, of which he had passed 18 in 
the Order. 

•Foster, Joseph, son of Henry Foster 
above mentioned, and full of the religious 
spirit, died at AntMrerp 13 April 1686, aet, 
65. Soc. 33. 

Foster, Michael. All that I can glean 
of this father, is, that he died in the Mary- 
land Mission, 6 Pebruary, 1684. 

FosTEK, Richard, of Lancashire : ad- 
admitted in 1692 : ordained Priest at 
Prague in 1701 , and died in England 9 May, 
1707, at the early age of 35. 

Foster, Thomas. This holy man was 
long employed in the Yorkshire Mission ; 
but was driven away by the parliamentary 
troops. Repairing to Lincoln he fell into 
the bands of his enemies, who consigned him 
to a dungeon. In announcing his loss of 
liberty to the Superior he says, — I was not 
worthy of being favoured with that happi- 
ness which 1 have longed for during the last 
40 years. Blessed be God, who has allow- 
ed me at least this tribulation of a jail, and 
I humbly beseech God, that it may be ac- 
cepted as some kind of satisfaction for my 
manifold and great transgressions. ** This 
patient sufferer died in his prison of the 
drops.y, 31 March, 1648. 

♦Fourde, John Bapt. a temporal coad- 
jutor who died at Ghent 9 March, 1746, 
ffit. 45, Soc. 24. 

Fowler, Francis, of Loudon, admitted 
as a Novice at the age of22 ; and as a Pro- 
fessed Father 25 January, 1644. After ser- 
ving the Mission for 15 years, he was called 
to his recompence on Lady-day, 1659, at 
50. 

Fowler, Richard, is said to have died 
in England in the course of the year 1623. 

FoxE, James, related to the Foxes of 
Guernoga, county of Montgomery, and" to 
the Somerset and Powis Families ; joined 
the Novitiate in 1747. This worthy priest 
died suddenly in his chair at Southwortb, 
Lancashire, whilst catechising the children, 
29 March, 1795, aet. 65 ; and was buried at 
Windleshaw. 

Another of this name had died 4 Decem- 
ber, 1760. I suspect that this was F. 
James Poole, of whom more hereafter. 

Frambac, Augustine James, born in 
Germany, 6 January, 1723 : joined the 
Society at the age of 21, was professed in 
1760. Joining the English Province, was 



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ordered to Maryland, where he died in Au- 
gust, 1795. 

Freeman, Michael, of Yorkshire, after 
studying in that seminary of learning and 
piety Douay College, he adopted the rule 
of St. Ignatius at Louvain, 13 July, 1608, 
aet. 29. I have seen an original Letter of 
hiss to the Gen. Claud. Aquaviva, dated from 
the Novitiate at Louvain, 5 January, 1612, 
in which he makes a favourable report of his 
brethren there. On 22 July, 1621, his 
merits procured his enrolment amongst the 
Professed Fathers. After teaching The- 
ology at Liege, and serving the English 
Mission for 12 years, he surrendered his 
soul to God in England, 26 September. 1642, 
aged 65. 

Freewill, John, born in Cambridge- 
shire, in 1604 ; at the age of 38 was aggre- 
gated to the Society : was employed in the 
English Mission in 1655. 

Frevill, Ralph, occurs superior to his 
Brethren in the Bishoprick of Durham at 
tl)e commencement of the 18th century, and 
died in April, 1719. 

Freville, Robert, entered the Order at 
the age of 27: was professed 15 October, 
1630. After cultivating the English vine- 
yard for 30 years, he died happily, 13 Sep- 
tember, 1656, aet. 66. 

Freville, Thomas. — The Annual Let- 
ters shew that King James II. had known 
him at Brussels — that when the Father re- 
sided at Paris, as Procurator of his Bre- 
thren, his Majesty occasionally used him as 
his confessor, in the absence of F. John 
Warner. The good old man died in Eng- 
land, 2 April, 1701. 

FuLK, Jerome, died in England, 31 
October, 1645 : but I can glean no particu- 
lars of his life. 

•FuLwooD, Richard. — This was a most 
faithful and prudent lay-brother to FF. 
Gerard and Garnet. Apprehended at last, 
he was subjected to the most excruciating 
tortures, but nothing could ever shake his 
constancy, or induce him to betray his trust. 
Escaping fortunately from his jailors, he 
stationed himself for some years at Dun- 
kirk, where he contrived to render invalu- 
able service, as an Agent to the Mission. 
He died of the Stone at Liege, in a good 
old age, 18 September, 1641. 

Furniers, Nicholas, of Lancashire. In 
1725 he united himself to the Society, and 
18 years later, was numbered among the 
Professed Fathers. He died in his native 
County, 16 November, 1779, aged 71. 

Gage, Charles, half brother, I suspect, 
to Sir Henry Gage, the brave commander at 
Oxford. That he was stationed at Nor- 
wich inthereigaof James II., is certain, 
for we read in the Annual Letters, which 
report the state of religion antecedent to the 
revolution. — " At Norwich, the capital of 
Norfolk, was a very celebrated chapel, 
where F. Charles Gage excited a wonderful 
sensation by his sermons, and laboureil so 



zealously in that vineyard, that the faithful 
unanimously addressed a letter of thanks to 
Father Provincfal (John Keynes ) for hav- 
ing provided them with such a distinguished 
Preacher." After the revolution I cannot 
follow up his history. Does not Mr. Dodd 
p. 114. Vol. in. Church Hist, mistake Wil- 
liam for this Reverend Father ? 

Gage, Edmund. — I cannot discover 
where he made his Noviceship, but he was 
numbered anaong the Professed Fathers, 2 
February, 1702. He occurs Rector of bis 
brethren in the College of St. Ignatius, from 
September, 1727, to November, 1731. Re- 
tiring to Ghent, he died there 3 September, 
1740. I am disposed to think that the leal 
name of this Jesuit was Plowden. 

Gage, John. — Three Fathers of this 
name are recorded in the Fasti. The 1st. In 
the Provincial return of 1655, this Father 
is described as being a native of Cambridge- 
shire ; as being 39 years of age, of which 
he had passed 21 in the Society, and five 
in the English Mission. I think he died 
29 December, 1703. 

The 2nd, sometimes called Lewis, was 
formed a spiritual Coadjutor, 5 August, 
1681, and was superior of his brethren in 
the College of the Twelve Apostles. He 
died in Suffolk, 12 January. 1728, O. S. »t. 
77. 

The 3rd is an honoured name amongst 
his Brethren. He was the second son of 
John Gage, Esq., by Elizabeth daughter 
and sole heir of Thomas Pvookwiood, of 
Coldham Hall, Esq., and was born 28 July, 
1720. Piety led him to the Novitiate at 
Watten, 7, September, 1740, and his merits 
procured him the rank of a Professed Father 
2 February, 1756. After teaching Philo- 
sophy at Liege, he was sent to the English 
Mission. In a letter which he wrote to 
Bishop Hornyold, 20 October, 1773, from 
Bury St. Edmunds, I read, — "I have ser- 
ved this place alone these 17 years entirely 
gratis, as there is not one penny foundation 
I know of." Besides this duty he was in 
the habit of " serving once iu six weeks, 
Mr. Sulyard's, at Haughley Park." 

No Jesuit was ever more attached to the 
Society than F. John Gage. In the above- 
mentioned letter written, as he tells the good 
Bishop Hornyold, " inamaritudine animce 
mece " he cannot describe the poignancy of 
his afBiction at the news of the suppression 
of the Institute "to which I owe all the lit- 
tle learning and virtue I have got — an In- 
stitute which has no other end, than the 
greater honour and Glory of God, by la- 
bouring for one's own perfection, and that 
of one's neighbours — an Institute, for 
whose preservation I would willingly have 
laid down my life. The standard of St. 
Ignatius is too deeply planted in my heart 
ever to be plucked out, but with life itself. 
I shall ever keep myself in readiness to fly 
to its embraces, the moment it shall he 
raised again. Almighty God can do it; 



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but if it does not please him to do it, I 
hope at least he will admit me into the 
number of those holy heroes in heaven, from 
whose company I am now, for my sins, 
discarded on earth. Pardon, my Lord, 
pardon the excesses, and perhaps extrava- 
gances of a heart which pours forth the 
overflowinif of its grief into your Lordship's 
compassionate bosom." 

Again, in a subsequent letter, " I hope 
God will accept the sacrifice, and give me 
new lights to steer by, since it has pleased 
him to deprive me of the safe guide of 
obedience to the Superiors, to whom I had 
obliged myself by vow. It is this my 
Lord, it is this which makes me trouble for 
myself ; not being quite blind to my own 
"Weaknesses, even when under such a sa- 
cred tie. 1 am now like a ship without a 
Pilot in the midst of a tempestuous sea. 
Every ecclesiastical state is holy, and weak 
prejudices 1 always despised : but every 
one is not suited to every state. I thought 
at leaving the world (after having been en- 
gaged in it for some time) I had embraced 
that which God called me to, and suited 
best ray dispositions. I find myself as if on a 
sudden turned out and treated like a crimi- 
nal ; I know not why. But I know no 
better resolution that I can take, than to 
model my life, as much as I can, according 
to the Holy Institute I was brought up in, 
and now I resign myself entirely, as to all 
spiritual jurisdiction, to your Lordship's 
will and pleasure, happy in ray unhappiness 
to fall into the hands of so tender a Father." 

In good Bishop Hornyold he did find a 
Father* and an angel of comfort, who acted 
the same friendly part as Bishop Challoner, 
towards the afflicted and persecuted mem- 
bers of the Society. 

In his Lordship's original Letters now 
before me, dated from Longbirch, 25 Octo- 
bei, and 16 November, 1773, and signed 
"Kver yours in Christ Jesus, 
John Hornyold, 

I read,—" Let me beseech you, my dear 
Sir, to take courage and not be cast down, 
but let us resign ourselves to the will of 
Divine Providence, and go on labouring 
in the vineyard of our Lord, with the same 
zeal and fervour, as you have done for so 
many years past. — I was well assured, before 
you signed the Formula, of your sincere sub- 
mission to the Holy See and its Vicars; and 
I do hereby renew and confirm the usual 
powers or Faculties. As to the temporali- 
ties which belong to your late body, I have 
nothing to say to them ; but am desirous 
that thofe who have the care or adminis- 
tration of them, will go on in the same man- 
ner as they were used to do. God forbid, 
that I, or any one here in this kingdom, 
should pietend to act in such an unchris- 
tian, nay, inhuman part, as they have done 
ftt Bruges^ notwithstanding all their assur- 
ances of friendship. But avarice, (which 
Icnows no bounds) has been the cause of all 



the dark and dismal scenes that have been 
enacted there and elsewhere. God forgive 
them, and grant them grace to repent : for 
I am, as Mr. Dennet well observes, more 
grieved, if possible for them, than I am 
for the poor sufferers ; since these suffer 
for justice sake, and'theiefore will have their 
reward hereafter. In fine, my dear sir, 
give me leave once more to exhort you to 
be resigned to the will of heaven, al^vays 
saying j^af voluntas tua in Terra, sicut 
in Ccelo.'^ 

Good Father Gage faithfully adhered to 
the exhortations of his Episcopal Guide, 
and lived esteemed and beloved by ail that 
knew him. On 3 1 October, 1790, he sweet- 
ly reposed in the Lord. The family vault 
of Stanningefield contains his precious re- 
mains. In a letter written from Bath, 11 
.Tanuary, 1796, by F. C. Thompson, shortly 
before his death, to his friend Revd. James 
Lane at Norwich, he says " I would have 
Mr. John Gage's orders or memorandums 
observed; and I think a yearly anniversary 
should be instituted for him." F. Thomp- 
son was F. Gage's Successor at Bury. It 
appears further from this letter, that " Lady 
Mannock comes under the number of great 
Benefactors to the Bury Chapel." 

GALLr, MarkAnthony, came to England 
with Mary, Duchess of Modena, afterwards 
Duchess of York, and consort to James II. 
in quality of her Confessor. After the revo- 
lution he resided with the Court at St.per- 
maine, wherehe still was living 1 August, 
1701 , Octogenario Major. But shortly af- 
ter he retired to his brethren at Watten, to 
prepare himself for eteinity, into which he 
entered 7 September, 1703.' 

Gallop, or Gollop, Giles. This Dor- 
setshire man, was eldest son of Thomas and 
Agnes Gollop, vvas quondam fellow of New 
College, Oxford. From a M.S. of F. Per- 
sons 1 learn that he died in the Soc. at 
Rome, in the year 1579. 

Galloway, Edward, Born in London, 
22 June, 1706, and the only child of Ste- 
phen Galloway, Gent., by his wife Elizabeth 
Turbeville. He was admitted a Novice of 
the Society in 1724, and in the eighteenth 
year later, was promoted to the rank of a 
Professed Father. For many years he was 
incumbent of Norwich. By the death of 
his parents he came into possession of consi- 
derable property, the bulk of which he 
bequeathed, at his death, which took place 
in London, 23 June, 1799, to Edward Hud- 
dlestone, third son of Ferdinand Huddle- 
tone, of Sawstone Hall, Cambridgeshire, Esq. 

Gandolphy, Peter, of London, was 
born 26 July, 1779, studied partly at Liege 
and at Stonyhurst. After passing three 
years in the J uniorate at the latter place 
(where I had abundant opportunities of ad- 
miring his spirit of zeal, and charity, and 
submission) he was appointed to commence 
a course of Humanities, 4 October, 1801; 
but quitted^ the College three years later. 



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After some lime he was promoted to Holy 
Orders, by the worthy Bishop of the London 
district, Dr. Douglas, and charged with the 
Newport Mission, in the Isle of Wight, 
This was but a preparatory arena for that 
wider and nobler theatre of his ardent mind 
and commanding talents, the Spanish Cha- 
pel, London. That he laboured indefati- 
gably and most successfully, is evident from 
the numerous souls he confirmed in their 
religious principles, and reconciled to the 
Catholic Church; Unfortunately in the 
midst of his victorious career, he incurred, 
by the publication of his " Liturgy ," and 
his Four Volumes of Sermons "in Defence 
of the ancient Faith, " the displeasure of 
his ecclesiastical Superior, Bishop Poynter, 
{of pious memory) who suspended him and 
denounced his works in the Pastoral Letter, 
dated London, 24 April, 1817. From this 
blow Mr. Gandolphy never recovered. He 
resigned his place of Chaplain, in Spanish 
Place, the year folio winsr; and diedawav 
9July,182L 

All his friends must admit, that he wrote 
too much and published too rapidly, not to 
€rr against Theological precision. Even as 
a critic he should have attended more to the 
Horatian rule *' Nowwm prematur in an- 
nnniy " and to the Golden rule of Quinc- 
tilian, Lib. I. " Verba a vetustate repeiita 
mutari velat Religio, et consecratis uten- 
dum est. " 

With regard lo scholaslical opinions in- 
deed, perfect freedom ought to be tolerated, 
and writers on religious subjects should al- 
ways have present to their mind the sen- 
timent of St. Augustine," Sentiat quistjue 
quod libet ; tantum contra apostolicam 
manifestissimam Fidem nemo sentiat. 

Besides tlie work above mentioned Irom 
the pen of this zealous ecclesiastic, we ha\e 

1. Sermon on tbe text " Render to Caesar 
the things that are Caesar's." Printed in 
London, May, 1813, 4to. pp. 21. 

2. Letter to Dr. Herbert Marsh. 

3. Letters to the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, 8vo. 1817. pp. 105. 

4. " VeloismilLnstratecU" Svo. London, 
pp. 90, with an appendix of 70 pp. 

5. A Letter to a noble Lord, '* On the 
conduct of Sir J. Cox Uippisley, at 
Rome." 8\o. London, 1819 pp.63. 

6. Lessons of IVlorality and Piety, extract- 
ed from the Sapiential books of HoJy Scrip- 
ture, Svo. London, 1822 pp. 35. Prefixed to 
this posthumous work is a feeling testi- 
mony from the immortal Milner, to the 
Author's " uprightness of mind, the extent 
of his charities, the warmth of his religious 
zeal, his unwearied labours in the sacred 
ministry, his successful eloquence in the 
conversion of erring souls, the zealous 
orthodoxy of his Faith, and his unshaken 
attachment to the centre of unity, the Chair 
of St. I'eter." The learned Prelate is 
pleased to add, " That whatever inaccuracy 
there was in some of the Writer's expres- 



sions, there was no heterodox or danger- 
ous principle in his mind." 

Garbot or Garbett, Robert. His real 
name 1 suspect was Richardson. After 
studying Humanities at St. Oraer, he pro- 
ceeded to the Novitiate at Watten, in 1688 ; 
and in the eighteenth year after his admis- 
sion into the order, viz., 2 February, 1706, 
was numbered amongst its professed Fathers. 
Most certainly he served LuUworth for a 
time : afterwards was employed in the 
Monmouthshire Mission. His death occur- 
red 27 January, 1737, set. 67. 

Garden, James. — All that I can collect 
with certainty of him is, that he died in 
London, 7 May, 1793. 

Q. Can this be the person mentioned in 
a letter of F. Charles Plowden to his Revd. 
Brother Robert P. dated 16 March, J774. 
" Our own people chose a Scotch French- 
man Garden to pen the memorial to Vienna. 
He made a declamation, instead of a plain 
exposition of facts, which was wanted : and 
persons who judged more coolly at Vienna 
have refused to present it." 

Gardinec, Francis, memorable for his 
compassionate charity for the poor suffering 
souls in Purgatory, died in England 18 
January, 1689. 

Gardiner, John, was admitted into 
the Society in 1679. Nearly his whole life 
was spent in the service of the Mission, and 
lie was called to the reward of bis meri- 
torious labours at Liege, 31 August, 1727, 
cet. 70. 

Gardiner, Stephen, all that I can glean 
of him is, that he died during the Civil 
Wars, viz. 21 June, 1647. 

GardineE; William, was horn in Lan- 
cashire, in 1651 : was serving the English 
Mission in 1701-4. I regret to add, that I 
cannot follow out his history ; indeed the 
scantiness of materials is often discourag- 
ing : and I should be deterred from proceed- 
ing with these collections, if I did not be- 
lieve that others would enter into my la- 
bours. My humble wish is to gather up 
what fragments I can, that nothing be lost. 

Garner, George : born 5 April, 1737 ; 
entered the Novitia'e at the age of 19, and I 
suspect, died at an early period of life. 

Garnet, Eenry, born at Nottingbam in 
1555, where ^' his Father taught the Free 
School." Sent to Winchester College, he 
obtained the rank of Captain, and by his 
modesty, urbanity, musical taste and quick- 
ness and solidity of parts, so recommended 
himself to bis superiors, that had he pur- 
sued his studies at JS'ew College, Oxford, he 
might safely have calculated on Academic 
honors and preferment. But decided as he 
was on professing the Catholic religion, he 
proceeded t*) Spain, and thence to Rome, 
wheie he entered the Novitiate of St. An- 
drews, on 11 September 1575. After qua- 
lifying himself under such professors as 
Clavius, Saurcz, Pereira, and i'.ellarmine, 
he was employed as Penitentiary, and teca- 



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sionally gave lectures on Mathematics, Me- 
tapbysics, and Hebrew. F. Clavius found 
him so profoundly versed tin Mathematical 
sciences, that he opposed bis return to Eng- 
land in the capacity of a Missionary ; but 
zeal for souls weighed more than learned 
fame with ibis young Jesuit, and quitting 
Rome in company with F. Robert South- 
well, S May, 1586, safely landed in Eng- 
land 7 July ensuing. At this time F. 
William (Edmund) Weston was the only 
English Jesuit in this Country ( he had 
landed from Dieppe on the Norfolk coast, 
in September, 1584) and he gave them a 
welcome meeting in London. On F. Wes- 
ton's apprehension and commitment to pri- 
son shortly after, his superiorship devolved 
on F.Garnet, 

Of the talents of this good Father for go- 
vernment, of the great augmentation of tha 
Society under his auspices ( for he left be- 
hind him above forty Members in the Eng- 
lish Mission) — of his zealous exertions to 
promote the greater glory of God and the 
prosperity of all our Seminaries abroad, 
regular and secular — of bis undeviating at- 
tention to cement brotherly union among 
the labourers in the vineyard, without dis- 
tinction or exception — of his charity for the 
distressed,— of his candour and cheerful 
piety, — of his moderate, peaceable, and 
loyal* character— of his love of suffering — 
of his iniquitous trial — of his barbarous exe- 
cution, but meek departure to our Lord at 
London, on 3 May, 1606, it is better to say 
nothing here than too little. We must con- 
tent ourselves with believing, that with the 
wise, and the good, and the unprejudiced 
his memory will go on, increasing in esteem 
and veneration. 

In a letter written by this Father 1 Oc- 
tobefj 1693, to his sister Mary, whom he 
had sent to the Augustine Convent, at 
Louvain.he expresses the comfort he had 
derived from having reconciled their aged 
mother, at the late feast of the assumption 
of our lady, " to the unity of our spiritual 
mother the Church," and from the cherished 
hope of beholding his other two unmarried 
sisters, (one was called Ann) embrace the 
re ligious state. 

F. G. was professed 8 May, 1598. 

For the truth of the miraculous straw, con- 
taining F. Garnett's portrait, we have the 
authority of F. Gerard in his English M. S. 
of the gunpowder plot, and several other 
contemporaries. The reader, interested in 
the subject, may read the 7th book of F. 
More's History ; p. 96, 96, of Grene's 

Defence of the Jesuit's Life and Doc- 
trine." Lord CastUmaine'si CathoHque 

* Of this, every unbiassed person must be 
satisfied, who reads the protest of bis innocence of 
the gunpowder plot, addressed to the privy coun- 
cil the 30 of November 1605, -which I inserted in 
pp. 198 201 of Cath. Miscellany. 1823. 

t This nobleman was the son of Sir James Pal- 
mer, of Dorney Court, and Chancellor of the Garter, 
by Catharine his Snd wife, eldest daughter of Sir 



Apology, p. 422. Challoner's Memoirs of 
the Missionary Priests, &c. F. Richard 
Blount, who was not a credulous man, in a 
letter dated 8 November, 1606. mentions 
this accurate portrait, and affirms that it 
had been seen by Catholics and Protestants, 
of the best sorts, and divers others. This 
you may boldly report, for besides our- 
selves, a thousand others are witnesses 
of it.'' Se also Feller's Dictionaire His- 
torique — article, Garnett. 

This highly gifted Father found time, 
amidst his numerous engagements and ex- 
tensive correspondence, to publish 

1. A treatise of Schism. 

2. A treatise on Christian renunciation, 

3. A translation of Summa Canisii, 
with supplements on pilgrimages, in- 
vocation of saints, and indulgences, 8vo, 
pp. 687. It was printed first at London 
in 1590. and again at St. Omer, 1622. 

4. Translations of some little books on 
the Society of Jesus. 

5. A tieatise on the rosary of our 
Lady. 

In a letter of this good Father, dated 
2 June, 1601, I read, that he had confuted 
in M. S. " A pestilent dialogue between a 
gentleman and a physician," and although 
none but M. S. copies were taken and cir- 
culated, it caused the suppression of the said 
dialogue ; and its author, to his credit, had 
expressed his regret for having published it. 

F. Garnet's Latin Letter on the martyr- 
dom of his friend, the Rev. John Jones, 
O.S.F. is referred to by Bishop Challoner, 
in the Memoirs of Missionaiy Priests. 

The portrait of this Father by WiricXy 
is deservedly admired and valued. 

Garnet , Thomas, was born in London. 
His Father, Richard Garnet, had been Fel- 
low of Baliol College, Oxford, and a Con- 
fessor of Catholic Faith, and was own bro- 
ther to F. Henry G., above mentioned. At 
the age of 16 he entered St. Omer's Col- 
lege, as one of its earliest alumni. After 
completing his higher studies at Valladolid, 
where he arrived about Christmas, 1595, 
he returned to England in the capacity of a 
Missionary, and was admitted into the 
Society, by his Venerable uncle, 29 Sep- 
tember, 1604. Falling into the hands of 
the Persecutors, and condemned to per- 
petual exile, the first use he made of his li- 
berty was, to hasten to the Novitiate of St. 
Johns, at Lou vain, where he arrived 1 Feb. 
1607, and there he was the first Novice 
to pronounce the simple vows of the So- 
ciety, viz. 2 July that year. His zeal for 
souls, made him hurry back to England, but 
his career of usefulness was short : he was 
betrayed by Rouse, an Apostate Priest; ar- 



Wm> Herbert, afterwards Earl of Powis, and relict 
of Sir Robert Vaughan, of Lloydwerd, county of 
Montgomery, Knt. His Christian name was Roger, 
and he was created by Charles, II. Earl of Castle- 
raaine, and Baron of Limerick, in Ireland ; and 
died in North Wales, in August, 1705. 



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tested, as he was leaving London forColdham 
Hall, the seat of the Rookvvood Family, in 
Suffolk ; and executed at Tyburn, 23 June, 
1608, set. 34. See his Life in Tanner, and 
compare Dr. Challoner's diligent report in 
the memoirs of Missionary Priests, with the 
slovenly one, p. 413, Vol, IL of Mr. Dodd's 
Church History. 

In a letter of F. Michael Walpole, to F. 
Persons, dated 26 July, 1608, O.S. 1 read 
"This blessed Martyr's death seeraeth to 
have silenced the Parliament oath, as his 
good uncle's (Henry Garnet) did the Gun- 
powder Treason." In the Choir of the 
Church at St, Omer's College, (up to the 
10 October, 1762, at least) was a cupboard 
containing the remains of this F. Thomas 
Garnet and F. Peter Wright, and of nine 
secular Priests, who had suffered for Re- 
ligion. F. P. Wright's body was removed 
io Liege. 

Q. What became of the rest ? 
^ The Cupboard bore this insciiption '•'Re- 
liquioB SS. nondum approbatce et Monu- 
menta Virorum pice memorice 

Gascoign, Henry, of Bucks; at the age 
of 20 he was a candidate for the Society, 
and was admitted a Professed Father, 25 
October, 1630. This venerable Priest, 
after labouring in the vineyard nearly half 
a century, died quietly, in England, 3 Sep- 
tember, 1676, aet. 79. 

Gascoign, Thomas, of a good family in 
Yorkshire, that has been fruitful in mem- 
bers of various religious orders. When 25 
years of age, Thomas enrolled himself 
among the children of St. Ignatius ; at the 
end of 26 years of pastoral solicitudes and 
labour, he was called up by the Prince of 
Shepherds, to receive his reward, 17 July, 
1669, aet. 64. 

Gavan, Henry, admitted 7 September, 
1685, and died at Liege 12 May, 1701, 
aet. 34>. 

Gavan, or Gawen, John, a native of 
London. At St. Omer's College his candor 
and innocence obtained for him the name of 
the Angel. His virtues and talents soon 
qualified him for the charge of souls. 
Wolverhampton* was fixed upon as the 
Theatre of his zeal and eloquence. During 
eight years belaboured with great success ; 
but at that fatal epoch, when religious 
and political phrensy exercised unbounded 
influence over the judgment of men, this 
good Father fell a victim to the perjuries of 
Oates and Dugdale. ^Suffering death at 
Tyburn, 30 June, N. S. 1679, aet. 39, Rel. 
19, Prof. 1, an entrance was administered 
to him abundantly, into the everlasting 
kingdom of his Lord and Saviour J. C. 

Was he not closely connected with that 

* By some writers of that period Wolverhamp- 
ton is stiled Parva Roma, from being the residence 
of numeious Catholics ; but the panic of Oates' 
plot must have quiclily dispersed them, for when 
Bishop Leyburn visited the Town tlie 14th of Octo- 
ber. 1687, he confirmed but 37 persons. 



noble Confessor of the Faith Thomas Gawen, 
of Norrington, County of Wilts, Esq. 
From *' the Greate Rolle of Th'excheqr, for 
the yeare of our Lord, MDCLVIJ," I learn 
that his Manor and Farm, of Norrington 
and Trowe, of the yearly value of £i)00, 
and his Messuage called Hurdcott, of the 
value of £160 per annum, had been seques- 
tered for Popish Recusancy in two thirds 
of the said yearly Rents, viz. ^£'373 6s. 8d. 
from 31 July, 1647, until his pious death, 
1 June, 1656. He took with joy the being 
stript of his property, " knowing he would 
have a better and a lasting substance." 

Gavan, or Gawen, Thomas. — After 
passing through the Noviceship, and finish- 
ing his higher studies, he sailed for Mary- 
land, in 1677. How long he continued a 
labourer in that laborious vineyard, I can- 
not discover, but he died in Lincolnshire, 4 
June, 1712, a Martyr to the gout, aged 66, 
ReL 42. 

* Gee, pe Henry, of Liege. This tem- 
poral coadjutor, after 32 years of valuable 
service to his English Brethren, died at 
their college in Bruges, 2 April, 1772, set. 
62. 

* Gengival, John, admitted at Watten 
31 October, 1702, and died in the same 
place 30 January, 1708, set. 33. 

Gerard, Gilbert, of Lancashire. All 
that I can collect of the former is, that he 
was brother to Alexander and Thomas 
Gerard, both prisoners for the Catholic faith 
iu Wisbeck Jail. Alexander was living 
there 29 April, 1598. Thomas had died 
there before that date in the 28th year of 
his age. 

Tne 2nd Gilbert, son, I believe, of Sir 
Thomas Gerard, by Frances, daughter of 
Sir Richard Molyneux, was admitted into 
the Order, 7 September, 1641, aet. 25, but 
died very prematurely at Ghent, on 13 Au- 
gust, 1645. 

Gerard, John, born in Derbyshire. 
For 16 or 17 descents, his ancestors had ob- 
tained the honour of Knighthood. His Fa- 
ther, Sir Thomas Gerard, was a great suf- 
ferer in person and in property for his chi- 
valrous devotion to Mary, the captive 
Queen of Scotland. Twice he was com- 
mitted to the Tower of London, for his 
hazardous attempts to restore her to liberty. 
Nor could he redeem his own freedom from 
lengthened, not to say perpetual imprison- 
ment, but by submitting to enormous pe- 
cuniary sacrifices. To secure the undis- 
turbed practice of his religion, and perhaps 
also with a view of retrieving his shattered 
fortune, he petitioned Queen Elizabeth 
and her Council to be allowed to colonize 
the Northern parts of America. The ne- 
cessary license was granted, but the project 
proved abortive from the coolness and the 
aversion manifested towards it, by the Ca- 
tholic body. In a letter of F. Persons to 
Mr. Windslade, dated 18 March, 1605, this 
well-informed writer relates, " that Sir 



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©eorge Peckham and Sir Thomas Gerarde, 
about twenty years since, should have made 
this voyage by the Queen and Counseil's 
consent, with some evacuation of Papists^ 
as then they called them, which attempt be- 
came presently most odious to the Catho- 
licke Partie." 

Sir Thomas left two sons, by his wife 
Elizabeth (Port,) Tliomas, who succeeded 
to the Family Estates, and John the sub- 
ject of this Memoir. At the accession of 
King James I., the former went to meet 
him at his coming to England, when his 
Majesty told him before divers, from whom 
I heard it, (says F. John Gerard himself, 
in his M. S. account of the Gunpowder Plot) 
that he must love his blood, for that he and 
his had suffiered persecution for him. He 
then conferred upon him the honour of 
Knighthood ; but since, he hath had no pre- 
ferment at all ; but rather kept back, as being 
known that his house hath ever been Ca- 
tholicTce." 

About three years later, however, he was 
xnade a Baronet, 22 May, I6ll. 

At the age of Fifteen, John was sent to 
Exeter College ; but in consequence of the 
difficulties he experienced in living there 
with his conscience, and following his re- 
ligion, he withdrew at the end of a twelve- 
month, aud pursued his studies at home 
under a private tutor. When he attained 
his 19th year, he went to France for the 
purpose of learning the language, and he 
selected Rheinis for his residence. There 
he formed an acquaintance with a young 
gentleman who had been admitted into St. 
Andrew's Novitiate at Rome, but had 
quitted for a time, in the hope of recovering 
his health. Gerard was edified, charmed and 
delighted with the company and conversa- 
tion of this excellent young man : from him 
he learnt the method and practice of men- 
tal prayer ; from his example he conceived 
an exalted idea of the Society of Jesus, and 
this opinion ripened into a desire of becom- 
ing one of its members. At the end of three 
years he removed to Paris, and entered the 
College of Clermont, as well to acquire a 
knowledge of the Institute of the Society, as 
to improve himself in Latinity and Philo- 
sophical studies. On recovering from a 
severe illness, he quitted Paris before the 
expiration of a twelvemonth, to wait upon 
F. Robert Persons, at Rouen, to whom he 
unbosomed himself on his vocation to the 
Society. That prudent and enlightened di- 
rector advised him to defer any engagement 
of the kind , until he had settled all his fami- 
ly and worldly affairs, and for this purpose 
to return to England. Gerard complied, and 
after much vexatious opposition, and near- 
ly three years imprisonment in the Marshal- 
sea, for his attachment to Catholic Faith, 
he at last succeeded in regaining his liberty. 
Hastening to Paris he met F. William 
Holt, who had recently returned from 
Scotland, and accompanied him to Rome, 



■where he diligently applied himself to 
study. 15y special dispensation of the 
Holy See, he was promoted to Priesthood 
some months before he had attained the 
Canonical age, and to his inexpressible 
comfort, was admitted, together with F . 
Edward Oldcorn, into the Society of Jesus, 
by the 5th General of the Order, F. Clau- 
dius Aquaviva, on the feast of the assump- 
tion of B.V.M. 1588, with the obligation 
of completing his Noviceship in England. 

For nearly 18 years this Apostolical Fa- 
ther was employed in the English Mission. 
It is impossible to read his most interesting 
narrative " De rebus a se in Anglia ges- 
tis," written by order of his superiors, 
without being charmed wilk his patient 
zeal, his extraordinary tact and pru- 
dence, his ingenious charity, his love 
of suffering, and his most tender piety. In 
his character we recognise the manners of 
the finished gentleman, and the spirit of the 
perfect Religious. He made himself all to 
all, to gain all to Jesus Christ. 

On 3 May, 1606, F. Gerard bade fare- 
well to England, and precisely three years 
later, was enrolled amongst the professed 
Fathers of the Society. To his active in- 
dustry, to the assistance of his cousin, Sir 
William Stanley, to his credit with the 
Honourable George Talbot, (afterwards 
12th Earl of Shrewsbury) and with Maxi- 
milian, Duke of Bavaria, his brethren and 
the English Catholics stood indebted, for the 
erection and endowment of their National 
College at Liege. Possession was taken of 
the premises 1 November, 1614. F. John 
Gerard was declared its first Rector. After 
presiding nearly seven years, he proceeded 
to Spain in ti e Spring of 1622. On 11 
January, the year following, he reached 
the Eternal City, but then his stay Avas 
short, as his presence was required in Flan- 
ders. The last ten years of his life he spent 
in the English College at Rome ; where 
after a fever of four days, he closed a long, 
arduous and meritorious l,career, 27 July, 
1630, aged 73 years and some months, re- 
taining to the last the esteem of the wise 
and the virtuous amongst his own country- 
men and foreigners. Amongst his numerous 
correspondents, we meet with Cardinal Bel- 
larmine, who addresses him in a letter, dated, 
25 December, 161 1 , in the most affectionate 
terms pro nostra veteri amicitia et 
fraternitate, " and that eminent Spiritual 
writer F. Lewis de Puente. 

Dodd p. 419, Vol II. Church Hist., and 
C. Butler, p. 161, Vol II. Memoirs, &c., 
third edition, assert that " F. Gerard was 
apprehended after the discovery of the Gun- 
powder Plot, and committed to the Tower, 
where he was tortured as 'tis said in order 
to discover what he knew. " That be had to 
endure the repetition of the most inhuman 
torture is positively certain, that he effected 
his escape from the Tower in the latter 
part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and not at 



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^11 iathe reign of James I. is equally un- 
deniable. The fact is, he succeeded ic 
making his escape from the Tower 4 Oc- 
tober, 1597, full eight years before the dis- 
covery of the Plot ; aud again, he was never 
apprehended after its discovery. In p. 247 
of " Catholic Spectator, " 1826, 1 published 
a vindication of the Father's innocence of 
the shameless charge of being one of the 
Conspirators. See also the Refutation of 
the infamous libel in F. Fitzherbert's letter 
p. 339-40. More's Hist, and F. John 
Gerard's own letter to Right Rev. Dr. 
Smith, p. 67 of Vol. II. of Mr. Andrews' 
London and Dublin Orthodox Journal, 
which I inserted in January 1836. 

We have in print from this able and de- 
vout Father, 

1. " The Exhortation of Jesus Christ 
to the Faithful Soul. '* This is a Translation 
from the Latin Treatise of John Lansberg, a 
Carthusian, who died in 1539. London, 1698. 
St. Omer's, 1610, an Octavo of 282 pp. 
I suspect this is but an improved edition of 
Philip, the Earl of Arundell's translation, 
who had died in the Tower of London, 19 
October, 1595. 

2. " The Spiritual Combat^" translated 
from the Italian. It was first printed in 
London, then at Rouen in 1613. 

From his pen we have also in M. S. a de- 
tailed account of the Gunpowder Plot in 
English, a Folio of 170 leaves. The greater 
part of this treatise, as translated into 
Italian by F. Oswald Tesimond, was used 
by Bartoli. The original is at Stonyhurst. 

Also in M.S. " Narratio P. Johannis 
Gerardi de Rebus a se in Anglia gestis. " 
A more interesting iVJ, S. it has never fallen 
to my lot to examine. Considerable portions 
were inserted by me in the Catholic Spec- 
tator. The pious writer in relating the 
•sudden attacks and visits of the Priest- 
searchers, in London, regrets the seizure 
and loss of his meditations, sermons, and 
notes for sermons, the labour of ten years ; 
quasque ego pluris faciebam, quam illi 
fortasse thesauros suos inarca reconditos. 

From several passages I collect that 
F. Gerard was very tall. His portrait was 
still in the English College at Rome, 6 Feb- 
ruary, 1774, as I find in F: Thorpe's letter 
to Henry (8th Lord Arundell) of that date. 

Gerard, Philip, son, I believe to that 
roost respectable gentleman Mr. Gerard, of 
Staffordshire, who had hastened to London 
to impeach the false testimony of Oates and 
Dugdale, but was himself thrown into jail, 
where he shortly after died of fever. His 
last prayer was, that he might be buried 
near the venerable Father Whitbread. 

Philip at an early age consecrated him- 
self to God in the Novitiate at Watten, and 
occasionally passed by the name of Fitz- 
Williams. After serving the Knglish Mis- 
sion many years, he departed to our Lord, 
4 March, 1733, set. 68. 

2 A 



Gebard, Thomas. Three members 
occur of this name, and all natives of 
Lancashire. 

The 1st was admitted into the Order ia 
1629. Fifty-three years later, whilst Su- 
perior of his Brethren in Yorkshire, during 
the prevalence of putrid fever in the North 
of England, this good pastor fearlessly ex- 
posed himself to danger in the discharge of 
his Missionary duty, and at length had the 
glory of falling at his post, a victim of 
Christian charity, on 5 October, 1682, 
" magno sui turn apud nostros turn apud 
exteroSf desiderio relicto,*' An. Lit. 

The 2nd was admitted at Watten, in 
1686. I can glean no particulars of his life- 
He died at St. Omer, 14 December, 1715, 
set. 48. 

The 3rd, after serving the laborious Mis- 
sion of Maryland, returned to England, and 
surrendered his soul to God, 15 April, 1761, 
set. 69, Soc. 47. 

Gerard, William.— Three Fathers bore 
this name also. The 1st 1 suspect was bro- 
ther to F. Philip Gerard. For many years 
was employed in the Maryland Mission, 
where he ended his days, 16 April, 1731, 
aged 69, Soc. 48. 

The 2nd, a native of Lancashire, joined 
the Society in 1675, after finishing Humani- 
ties at Watten ; and died at Liege, 24 Sep- 
tember, the ensuing year, set. 20. ** Ex 
egritudine in itinere contractd." 

The 3rd, also of Lancashire, entered the 
Novitiate at Watten, in 1707, ffit. 20 ; but 
I cannot pursue his history. 

Germin, Henry. His real name was 
Ferraor, of a good Family in Oxfordshire. 
After twelve years of exemplary zeal and 
charity, in the English Mission, he was cal- 
led up to receive his recom pence by the 
Lord of the Vineyard, 26 October, 1680, 
set. 43, Bel. 24, Frof. 6. 

•Gervase, Thomas, died of the yellow 
fever, in Maryland, 24 September, 1637. 

*Gez, Two temporal Coadjutors of this 
name are entered in the Fasti of the Eng- 
lish Province, James and Robert. The 
former died at Liege, 2 February, 173^, 
Rel. 17, set. 43. The latter departed this 
life at St. Omer, 14 January, 1760, Rel. 26, 
eet. 49. 

Gibbons, John, born at Wells, in So. 
mersetshire, in 1544. This learned divine 
resigned his Canonry at Bonn, to which he 
had been collated by Pope Gregory XIII, 
to become a humble Novice of the Society 
at Triers, in 1578. He died rector of the 
College there, 3 December, 1589. We have 
from his able pen 

1. A Treatise on the Saints. 

2. The confutation of George Schon^s 
(a Calvinist Minister at HeidleburghJ 
ThesiSy that " the Pope was Anti-Christ." 

3. A Treatise on Communion in one 
ArinJ," Triers, 1584. It is certain that he was 
the principal compiler of the " Concertatio 
EcclesicE Catholicce in Anglid. Triers, 



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1583. It wa5 re-edited there with consider- 
able additions the year following by John 
Bridgwater, (Aquapontanus) and again in 
4to. in 1588. 

Gibbons, Richard, younger brother of 
the aforesaid John, but his forerunner in the 
Society ; for he entered it at Rome, 1 Sep- 
tember, 1572. Few literary men have been 
more indefatigable in teaching and publish- 
ing. His most useful life was closed by a 
most christian death at Douay, 23 June, 
1632, set. 83, Soc. 61. The list of his 
numerous works may be seen p. 718-9, of 
F. Southwell's Bibliotheca. Here he is 
chiefly known by his edition of Nicholas 
Harpsfield's Historia Anglicana EcclesU 
astica — Folio, Duaci, 1622, and his transla- 
tion of D.e la Puente's *' Meditations on 
the Mysteries'' 8vo. pp. 306, 1610— and 
** Lewis de Granada's Memorial of a 
Christian Life, 8vo. 1599. 

Gibson, Francis, was admitted into (he 
Order 20 January, 1687 : in the sequel was 
Chaplain to the Brown Family at Kidding- 
ton. His death occurred 5 April, 1738, set. 
68. 

Gibson, Henry, entered the Novitiate 
at Watten, in September, 1687 : made his 
simple vows two years later ;, and whilst 
studying Theology at Liege, was snatched 
away in the prime of life 1 September, 1694. 
set. 27. 

Gibson, Isaac, at the age of 19 joined 
the Society ; for some time was certainly 
employed in the Gloucestershire Mission, 
■where I think he died 10 November. 1738, 
ttt. 64. 

Gibson, William, born 14 June, 1711 ; 
became a Novice in 1731, and died at Pont 
fi Mousson, 29 December, 1742. 

GiffFORD, John, was long Chaplain at 
Danby Hall. Retiring from the English 
Mission to St.Omer's, he slept in the Lord, 
21 September, 1751, Soc. 46, set. 67; another 
account says, 21 August. 

GiFFORu, James — see Wheble, James. 

GiFFORD, Peter, (alias Walker) of 
Staffordshire. From a letter of F, John 
Fersal, addressed from Liege, 17 September, 
1694, to the General of the Society, Thyrsus 
Gonzales, I learn that the Priest-hunters 
had recently pounced upon this very old 
Father Gifford, in his chamber, with his box 
containing the Altar vestments, and orna- 
ments, — that to their enquiry whether he 
was a Priest, he readily answered in the 
affirmative, and that they left him unmolest- 
ed, and his property uninjured. He died in 
London within three years later ; viz,28lh 
April, 1697, aet. 84. Soc. 64. 

GiFFORD , WiLLAM, whose true name was 
Garnet. He was a kinsman of the cele- 
brated F. Henry Garnet, and from a scholar 
at St. Omer, became a Novice at Liege, in 
the winter of 1614; but 1 cannot follow out 
his biography. 

Gilbert, George : of Suffolk, and born 
to a considerable fortune. Educated in 



error, whilst travelling with the royal 
licence on the Continent, he had the hap- 
piness of meeting F. Persons at Paris, who 
disposed his mind favourably to the Catholic 
religion ; and at Rome this zealous and able 
Father completed the work of his conversion . 
When the Reverend Father reached London 
as a Missionary, 13 June, 1580, this grate- 
ful convert hastened from his house in Chan- 
cery Lane to welcome him, and generously 
took upon himself the charge of equipping 
and maintaining him and his expected col- 
league, F. Edmund Campian: and the se- 
quel showed that he fulfilled the charge with 
even more liberality than he had covenanted. 
Dr. Allen, in a letter 13 June, 1582, de- 
scribes him as '■^SummusPatrumetPresby- 
terorum Patronus. " Quitting England lor 
Rouen, to avoid the frantic malice of his 
bigoted persecutors, he proceeded shortly 
after to Rome, where he was received into 
the Society, and expired in the most affect- 
ing and heroic exercises of piety and divine 
love, 6 October, 1583. He was buried, 
according to his desire, in St. Andrew's, the 
Church of the Novitiate. See his life in 
Tanner's Confessors of the S.J. pp. 180-4. 

Gilbert, William, of Somersetshire): 
at the age of 20 dedicated himself to God 
in the Society : was admitted to the Profes- 
sion of the Four Vows 8 September, 1646, 
This worthy Father distinguished himself 
as a Missionary both' in England and 
Holland. He died 22 December, 1677, 
set. 70. 

GiLLiBRAND, RicHARD, bornat Chorley, 
2 March, 1717: entered with his elder 
brother William, into the Novitiate at 
Watten, in 1735, and both were admitted to 
their solemn Profession in Religion, ia 
1753. F. Richard GiUibrand served the 
Mission in Maryland, and also at Arlington, 
in Devon. He died at Bath, 23 March, 1774^ 
♦Gillibrand, Thomas. — This holy 
youth renounced the family* estate in Lan- 
cashire, to embrace the poverty of Christ. 
On the feast of the Nativity of B.V.M. 1678, 
he took the Simple Vows of the Order, at 
Liege, and calmly expired 7 October fol- 
lowing, set. 22. The Annual Letters shew 
his eager desire to be dissolved and to be 
with Christ. 

Gillibrand, WM.-.Of these two, the senior 
died in England 1 April, 1722, set. 60, Rel. 
40. The junior, brother to F. Richard Gilli- 
brand before raeniioned, was born 22 Deca 
1715. After serving the Mission of Slate- 
delf, Southworth, Tusmore, and Exeter, he 
caraeinto possession of the Family Estate, 
and died at Chorley, 22 March, 1779. 

GiSLER, Luke, born in Germany : at the 
age of 20 embraced the pious Institute of St. 
Ignatius, and joining the English Province, 
was sent to the Mission in Pensyl- 
vania. This vineyard he cultivated with 

• " This family is aiicient. I have met Gilli- 
brands witnessing deeds in the reign of Edward the 
Third." 



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great industry and success, until his- happy 
death, 11 August, 1786, set. 51. 

Glover, Thomas, born at St. Helen's 
County of Lancashire, 5 March, 1781 : 
studied Humanities at Stonyhurst ; joined 
the Novices 26 September, 1803, and com- 
pleted his higher studies at Palermo. Re- 
turning to Stoayburst this eminently gifted 
Father taught Syntax and Poetry ; and 
during five years was Professor of Natural 
Philosophy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and 
Botany, Few Lecturers have displayed 
greater tact in communicating knowledge 
to their pupils. 

On 2 February, 1819, F. G. was admit- 
ted to the Profession of the Four Vows. 
The business of the English Province call- 
ing him to Rome in 1826, the General, F. 
Aloysius Fortis, an excellent judge of 
merit, deemed it fit to secure his services, 
and appointed him Confessor in the Church 
of the Professed House in that city, where 
he continues to labour with edifying zeal, 
exemplary prudence and astonishing suc- 
cess. At the 2nd Gen. Congregation of the 
Restored Society, (1829) F. Glover was 
nominated Secretary : ha was further elected 
Deputy Assistant for Spain, with the 
same powers and privileges however as the 
other assistants. The Assistant must 
necessarily be a native of his respective 
Assistancy : on this occasion no Spanish 
Father was found competent to fill the 
Office ; and the Congregation being obliged 
to select a Deputy, the choice, to the 
credit of the English Province, fell upon F. 
Glover. 

As the hurabla gleaner of these fragments, 
lam proud to acknowledge my obligations 
to this old Friend and very dear Father. 
He has encouiaged and aided my research- 
es : and from his two M.S. Vols, of Ex- 
cerpta ex Tomo cui titulus Anylia, ab anno 
1635, usque ad an 1787, in Archivio Domus 
Professae Romae, 1 have derived much valu- 
able information. 

GoNEUT, James, enlisted in the Order 
22 June, 1688, but died on his voyage to 
Maryland, 28 December, 1698. set, 45. 

•Good, Ephrem, of Warwickshire : at 
the age of 46 became a lay brother, and 
after 17 years service departed to our Lord 
22 July, 1657. 

Good, William, of Glastonbury. Soon 
after the accession of Queen Elizabeth, he 
resigned all his ecclesiastical preferments, 
and united himself to the Society at 
Tournay, in 1562. When he had completed 
his Noviceship, he was ordered by Superiors 
to accompany Dr. Richard Creagh, Abp. of 
Armagh, into Ireland — a Prelate most 
cordially atiachsd to the Society ; and for 
about four years the good Father laboured 
with the zeal of an apostle, to confirm the 
faithful in the ancient Faith. On quitting 
Ireland he proceeded to Belgium, and was 
stationed at Louvain for some time. In 1577 
h» was enrolled amongst the Professed 



Father* at Rome, and received instructions 
to attend F. Possevinus to Sweden and 
Poland. On his return to Rome, in Dec. 
1580, he was appointed Confessarius to the 
English College in that city. This appoint- 
ment gave special satisfaction and delight 
to Dr. Allen, as I find in his letter to F. 
Agazzari, dated I June, 1581. " Quod 
R, P. Gul. Good, vere vir bonus^ sit 
Collegii Confessarius, Icelor non medio ' 
criter ; estenim imprimis nostrorum mo- 
ribus formandis, ac in omnem partem 
moderandis, idoneus." A pithy eulogium 
this! He was truly a saintly and prudent 
man, and ready to give his life for the name 
of Christ. Retiring to Naples, he closed a 
life of pious labour, 5 July, 15B6, and was 
buried in the Jesuit's College there. Two 
years before his death he published at Rome 
a Folio with engravings, entitled Ecclesice 
Anglicance TrophceaJ" F. More adds, p. 
14, that he left in MS. " ^re Abstract of 
the Lives of the British Saints," See 
also his life in Tanner. 

GooDEN, James: enteredlhe Novitiate at 
Watten, at the end of Rhetoric, in 1689 : 
was Professed in 1707: for several years 
taught Philosophy and Mathematics at 
Liege: filled the office of Rector of St. 
Omer's from 14 March, 1722, till 15 April, 
1723. when he was declared Superior of the 
House of Probation, at Ghent. Whilst on 
a visit at St. Omer's, he was seized with 
his last illness and died most piously 11 
October, 1730, aged 60. 

This able Mathematician published at 
Liege, in i2mo. A.D., 1704. " Trigono- 
metria plana et spkcerica." 

Here I may be allowed to insert the 
honourable testimony of Bernouilli, an 
eminent Protestant writer and Philosopher 
at Berlin, in his " Nouvelles LiteraireSy " 
1779, where speaking of Writers on Ma- 
thematicsy he affirms, " La plupart sont 
des Jesuiles: ce corps, eteint si malheu- 
reusement pour les Sciences exactes, leur 
ay ant plusfourni de Sujets, que tons les 
autres Corps Religieux ensemble.'* " May 
Stonyhurst produce (and it bids fair to do 
so ' many Goodens, Lines, Lucases ^Maires , 
<^c. 8(c. 

Goodwin, Ignatius, of Somersetshire: 
at the age of 22 joined the Order, and was 
numbered among the Professed Fathers on 
Lady-day, 1643. For 20 years, from 1631 
to 1651, was serving the Mission in the 
Diocese of Exeter. Retiring to Liege, he 
was appointed to teach Moral Divinity and 
Controversy, and there he published, in 1656, 
the very useful treatise " Lapis Lydius Con- 
troversiarum.'' 24mo, pp. 446. In the 
same year he gave to the world " Pia 
Exercitatio DiviniAmoris, " which I am 
unable to describe. Returning to England, 
he died in peace at London, 26 Nov, 1667, 
aet. 65. 

Goodyear, Christopher. —This pious 
and religious man, as he is callid in tht 



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Annual Letters, died at Watten, 6 Novem- 
ber,, 1675, set. 28. Soc. 3. 

Gore, John: born in the Township of 
Ashton, County of Lancaster ; after passing 
through a course of Humanities, with the 
credit of a first rate scholar, he entered the 
newly founded Novitiate at Hodder, and 
deeply imbibed the spirit of St. Ignatius. 
Studious, obedient, cheerful, sedate, and 
very devout, this good Father was sent to 
the Preston Mission in 1814, and shone as 
a bright example of zeal and charity. 
Justly did he merit the honourable appel- 
lation of " Pauperum Sacerdos." Worn 
out with labour and sickness he retired to 
Stonyhurst, where he was released from 
his sufferings 9 Nov. 1824. set. 42, univer- 
sally esteemed and regretted. 

GoWER, Ralph, admitted in 1693, and 
Professed 27 March, 1711. For many years 
served Stonyhurst, and I believe Brian Mis- 
sions, both in Lancashire. He died Superior 
of his Brethren in the College of St. Aloy- 
sius,l3 October, 1740, set. 66. 

Grant, Robert, born in Yorkshire, 
A.D. 1694. At the age of 24 joined the 
Society: was Professed 19 November, 1631. 
I meet with him three years later, after 
which he eludes my search. Perhaps he 
died, like many others, during the Civil 
Wars, whose names are lost in the records 
of men, but are duly written in the Book of 
Life. 

* Grant, William, brother I imagine, 
of Robert. During the last 15 years of his 
life he did good service as a Temporal 
Coadjutor. He died at Liege, 29 March, 

1644, set. 47. 

Gravener, John, one of the eftrliest 
Missionaries in Maryland. When the noon 
of his life had scacely begun to decline, 
God saw fit to call him to bis recompence 
and repose, 5 November, 1640. 

Graves, John, of Somersetshire. In the 
29lh year of his age he embraced the Insti- 
tute of St. Ignatius, and distinguished him- 
self in the cause of religion. He was Peni- 
tentiary at St. Peter's in Rome, in 1604, as 
I find by a letter of F. Person's, dated 15 
October that year. Subsequently I find 
him engaged in the English Mission. Late 
in life he was acting as Professor of He- 
brew and Scripture at Liege College, where 
he died 30 August, 1652, set. 84. 

Gray, George, of Lancashire, entered 
the Novitiate in 1629 : was promoted to 
the rank of a Professed Father 21 June» 

1645. This able and solid Religious passed 
through most of the oflBces of the Society, 
and early in 1672 obtained the rank of Pro- 
vincial. His government was marked by 
firmness, prudence and charitable conde- 
scension. He died in England, 30 January, 
1686, set. 78. 

Gray, John.— All that I can collect of 
him is, that he died in England 26 February, 
1704, at. 47, Rel. 97. 



Gray, Michael, (alias j€i«'son) of Lan- 
cashire, died in the English Mission, 16 
November, 1648, set. 45, Soc. 25. 

•Gray, Robert.— This valuable lay- 
brother was a native of Northumberland, 
and died at St. Omer's, 25 October, 1658, 
set. 52, Soc. 19. 

Greaton, Josiah. — This Apostle of 
Pensylvania entered the Order 5 July, 
1708, and was professed in the same 4 Au- 
gust, 1719. He died worn out with labour 
in that vineyard, 19 August, 1753, set. 74. 

Green, Bernard, whose real name was 
Jossaert, was born in the Low Countries 
21 March, 1712; for many years served the 
English Mission ; died at Garswood, County 
of Lancaster, 21 November, 1775, set. 63, 
Rel. 44. Prof. 26. 

Grene, Christopher, a very intelligent 
Father. and brother to F. Martin Grene, oT 
whom more hereafter. For some time Chris- 
topher was Penitentiary at Loretto ; where 
I think he was admitted to the Profession 
of the Four Vows, 2 February, 1669; but 
he chiefly resided at Rome, where he was 
Penitentiary at St. Peter's. There he died 
in 1697. 

F. Christopher Green, in the years 1650^ 
and 1666, made diligent inquiries amongst 
the ancient Oratorian Fathers at Chiesa 
Nuova, andS. Gerolimo, concerning certain 
traditions; viz., that S, Philip Neri always 
expressed great pleasure at seeing the 
scholars of the English College at Rome, 
that he often stopt to salute them, and give^ 
them proofs of his affection ; that it was 
observed, that the scholars whom he em- 
braced with particular joy in his counte- 
nance, were afterwards Martyrs or illus-- 
trious Confessors of the Faith— that it was^ 
customary before the Scholars left for the 
English Mission, to have this holy man's- 
blessing — that one was known to have re- 
fused going, out of some contempt to the 
aged saint —but that he had not been longing 
England before he shamefully apostatized,. 
F. C. Grene found these traditions to be 
very satisfactorily authorised. They are 
alluded to in a Poem written in 1617, by 
Hieronymus Caliarius, of the congregation 
of St. Philip. 

Designat digito, quos laurea debet in Anglit 
Nerius insignes reddere Martyrii 
Eventus docuii, quid signa hac tanta notarent.SfC. Sfci. 

Green, Francis, born at Liverpool, 
March 1, 1748: entered the Order in 1764. 
This excellent scholar and promising Mis- 
sionary was carried oflF prematurely at Tus- 
raore, in 1774. 

Green, John : died at Ghent in 1641. 

Grene, (for so he spells his surname) 
Martin. How he should have been passed 
over by Dodd is surprising. According to 
F.N. Southwell, p. 586. Bibliotheca. &c., 
and Harris, p. 158. writers of Ireland, this 
learned Father was born of English parents 
in the Kingdom of Ireland : but we prefet 



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iha authority of the Provincial's returns of 
1642 and 1655 expressly vouching for his 
being a native of Ketit. He was, however, 
born in 1616 : after studying Humanities 
in St. Oraer's College, he was aggregated to 
the Society in 1688, and whilst serving the 
English Mission, was promoted very 
deservedly to ttie rank of a Professed 
Father, 3 December, 1654. Daring the 
twelve years that he cultivated tliis vine- 
yard, he endeared himself to his spiritual 
children and acquaintance by his discreet 
zeal, uualfected piety, and varied talent and 
erudition. Recalled to Watten to take 
charge of the Novices, he shone like a pillar 
of light before them, by his experience in a 
spiritual life, intimate practical knowledge 
of the Institute of their Holy Founder, ex- 
traordinary sweetness and affability of 
temper, and his superior literary attain- 
ments. His lamented death took place at 
Watten, 2 October, (not 30 September, as 
Harris translates the Postridie Cal Octo- 
bris of p. 5S6. of F. Nath. Southwell's 
Biblioth.) 1667, set. 51, leaving behind him 
the reputation of an eminent Classic, Histo- 
rian, Philosopher, and I">ivine. 
We have from his pen 

1. "■ yln Account of the Jesuites Life 
and Doctrine,'" a small 8vo. of 149 pp. 
Printed in London, 1661. This admirable 
book was a great favourite with James XI. 
in a letter of F. James Forbes, Superior of 
his brethren in Scotland, addressed on 10 
April, 1680, to the General, John Paul 
piiva, 1 read as follows, " Cum ohtulis- 
sem Serenissimo Duct Eboracensi libel- 
lum ad obiter tantum legendum, qui jam 
a multis annin a quodam Patre Green, 
Anglico idiomule J'uerat scriplus, in quo 
egregie Instituti nostri, Vitce et Doctrince 
rationem reddit, ejus lectione adeo Prin- 
ceps ej usque Conjux tenebantur, tit volue- 
rint milii, unicum quod habebam, exem- 
plar reddere, asserentes, se velle curare, 
ut tarn prceclarum opuscnlum, et hince 
prcEsertim temporibus adeo necessarium, 
typis iteram mandetui:" We hope to see 
a new edition of this valuable work. 

2. ^*An Answer to the Provincial Let- 
ters." — A translation from the French, but 
with considerable improvements of his own, 
and with a brief history of Jansenism, pre- 
fij^ed. 

3. " Vox veritatis, seu Via Rcgia du- 
cens ad verarn Pacem." His brother I 
think, Francis Green, translated this Latin 
Treatise into English, and printed it at 
Ghent, in 24mo., A.D. 1676. He had also 
a volume of his Church History of England 
ready for the Press, when death arrested the 
pr«)gress of his labours. 

To his well stored mind, F, Dan. Bartoli 
in his Inghilterra." (Folio, Rome, 
1667) was indebted for information on Eng- 
lish Catholic aftairs. 

Two or three Letters of the Rev. Fa- 
ther to his brother Christopher, are now 

2 B 



before rae. The first is dated 18 Septem- 
ber, 1664. He expresses great anxiety for 
F, Bartoli's prosecuting his intended Eng- 
lish Ecclesiastical History, and his own 
readiness to assist " in so pious a design." 
In answer to certain Queries, he says 
" I have the Book De non adeundis Hce- 
reticorum Ecclesiis." It is certainly 
F. Persons' work, and so it is esteemed 
by all here. It was printed in 1607, 
and though it have not F. Persons' name 
in the front, yet in p. 35, after having de- 
livered his opinion that it is not lawful, he 
subscribes thus ; Ita Sentio, R. P. : and 
then, in the following page, gives the o- 
pinion of Baronius, Bellarraine, and eight 
other principal Divines, then at Rome, sign- 
ed by every one. 

In the next place, he urges the expedien- 
cy of consulting and reading the Protestant 
historians of this country, in order to elicit, 
from the conflicting parties, the precise 
truth, and to ex{)05e error, adding " but 
that which I conceive most necessary for one 
who will write our Ecclesiastical History^ 
is the Acts of Parliament* which make the 
iVotestant Creed. They must be exactly 
looked into by one who will know the state 
of our Church affairs. For the later Par- 
liaments do change the former. The main 
point of the Act of 1st of Elizabeth, by 

iv The following note on weighing and collating 
Acts of Parliament, is from the pen of a learned 
Theologian : — " This advice of F. Green I am per- 
suaded has been too much neglected by Catholic 
Writers. For example, the Act of Parliament, 8 
Elizabeth, 1 cap. " declaring the making and conse- 
crating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm 
to be good, lawful, and perfect," sets at rest, in my 
judgment, the invalidity of the Anglican Ordina- 
tions. From this it is evident, 1st. — That serious 
questions and divers doubts existed amongst many 
at that time (1565) of the lawful consecration of the 
new Bishops. 2ndly. — That these questions and 
doubts arose from some imperfection and disability 
on the part of the Consecrators : now no disability 
could be assigned sufficient to invalidate their acts, 
but the want of Episcopacy in themselves. 3rdly. — 
That no pratension is set forth to a legitimate suc- 
cession from the Apostolic Church : no attempt is 
made to shew the validity of the Orders of the Con- 
secrators : no allusion is made to the Form employ- 
ed to convey Episcopal Powers. Yet it is obvious, 
that this was the shortest way "to avoid all am- 
biguities and questions that might be objected a- 
gainst these consecrations " (S Eliz. 1 cap.) And 
no mention is made of the Lambeth Consecration. 
4thly. — That, on the contrary, the Parliament pro- 
ceeds to invest or confirm in the Queen's Majesty, 
the power to authorize, by Her Letters Patent, not 
only Archbishops and Bishops, but others also, to 
consecrate, invest and confirm Bishops elect. The 
word others here is very comprehensive, and is evi- 
dently intended to include those who were not Bis. 
Iiops, Harlow for example, even if the Lambeth 
Register be genuine. Sthly. — That the Queen did 
actually dispense with all causes or doubis of any 
imperfection or disabiliiy, in the condition, state or 
faculty of all, or any of the Consecrators : and 
consequently with their chief and only disability, 
iheir want of Episcopal character. 6thly. — That the 
only cause alleged for this sweeping dispensation 
is the extreme necessity of the case " further to pro- 
vide fof the more surety thereof." This implies 
the absence of Epi.'^co|)acy. Papal Bulls and Pa- 
pal jurisdiction were not considered by the framersi 
of this Act of Parliament, as being of any necessity." ' 



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which the Queen had power given her to 
punish all that she should think fit, by any- 
free bora subject, to whorn she should de- 
legate her power ; upon which clause the 
High Commission Court, and the oath eX' 
officio were founded : this main clause 
was repealed by Charles I. and the repaal 
confirmed lately by Charles II. As also the 
form of creating Bishops was lately chang- 
ed by this King : and some other things in 
the Liturgy have been changed. So that 
without seeing the last Acts of Parliament, 
no man can tell what the religion of Eng- 
land is. — And since your departing hence, 
the Supremacy hath been strangely handled 
in the Lords' House, and power denied 
the King to dispense in the Ecclesias- 
tical Penal Laws, which, notwithstanding, 
all his predecessors since Henry the Eighth, 
practised." 

In the second letter dated Sherborne, 9 
October, 1664, he repeats his willingness 
to afford his utmost assistance to F. Bartoli : 
and he says, "There be many very fine 
things that might be said in that History ; 
but I fear it will be hard to get them to- 
gether. For it hath been formerly so dan- 
gerous in England to keep any writings of 
that kind, that the greater part is lost, and 
ao memory remains of many gallant actions, 
save only in the verbal relations of some of 
our old men." 

In the 3rd letter dated 1 January, 1665, 
he tells his brother, that he had now re- 
turned home about eight days since, 
from London — that to save him trouble, had 
written in Latin what had occurred to him 
on the question of going to the Protestant 
Church, " that if you think it worth seeing, 
you may shew it to F. Bartoli. For the 
relation concerning F. Garnet's trial, I have 
it ; but it being very long, I cannot send it 
in a letter, and yet know not how otherwise 
to send it. So that I am thinking to com- 
pare it witli what is in F. M ore's book 
(which now I have) and to write only that 
which the manuscript doth adtl, if it add 
any thing considerable. I had once occasion 
to inform myself of that history, and Ifound 
none better thaa the two books of Eudcemon 
Johannes, the one " Ad actionem Edonar- 
di Coq ui Apologia pro P. Henrico Gar- 
netto," the other, " Parallelus Torti ac 
Tortoris." Though the things be there 
spread and scattered, yet they are ( if col- 
lected) very pertinent to clear F. Garnet 
and ours. For example, among other things 
this is one ; that the Traitors had, amongst 
themselves, made an oath, that they would 
never speak of their design to any Priests, 
because they knew they would not allow 
of it ; also that they were specially offended 
with the Jesuits, for their preaching patience 
and submission. There are divers other cir- 
cumstances which manifestly excuse ours. I 
had a relation made me by one of ours, who 
had it in Seville, which clearly shows that 
the whole Plot was of Cecil's making ; 



but it being only told by an old man, who 
forgot both times and persons, I believe 1 
shall never make use of it. Yet I have 
heard strange things, which if ever I can 
make out, will be very pertinent. For cer- 
tain, the late Bishop of Armagh (Usher) 
was divers times heard to say, that if 
Papists knew what he knew, the blame of 
the Gunpowder Treason would not lie on 
them,''' and other things I have heard , which 
if I can find grounded, I hope to make good 
use of. It may be, if you write to Seville 
to ray brother Frank, he will, or somebody 
else there, give you some light in this busi- 
ness. 

Green, Richard. — After studying at 
Douay, and serviug the Mission, where his 
labours were fruitful, he became a candidate 
for the Society. F. Henry Garnet held him 
in great esteem. F. Andrew White, in a 
letter, dated Louvain, 27 October, 1606 
commends bis Reverend friend^s character 
in the highest terms. When he died I can- 
not discover. 

Green. Thomas. — All that I can glean 
concerning this Father is, that he was ap- 
pointed minister of the Savoy College, Lon- 
don, 1687 — that he was living in Surrey at 
the commencement of the Eighteenth Cen- 
tury, and that his death occurred 2 July, 
1727, in a good old age. 

*Green, William, was a Temporal 
Coadjutor, who died at Ghent; butldespair 
of learning further particulars. , 

Greenwood, Christopher, of Essex. 
For 25 years served the English Mission, 
and for a considerable period taught Phi- 
losophy and Divinity at Liege, where he 
died suddenly 10 February, 1651, set. 67. 
Soc. 4)6. Prof. 32. " Vir magnce doctrince, 
qui nan modo aptid nostros, sed apud 
alios omnes, prcBclaram sui opinionem 
coneitaverat. — An. Lit. 

*Gregson, Henry, of Lancashire, 
admitted 1 July, 1677 ; died at Liege 2i 
September, 1696, set. 56. 

Gresselt, Aloysius: all that I know of 
this Reverend Father is, that Dr. Carroll, 
the Bishop of Baliimore, selected him for hi» 
Coadjutor in the Episcopal Ministry; and 
that he died in Philadelphia during the 
month of September, 1793, a victim of 
charity, in attending the infected. 

Grey, Gilbert, whose true name was- 
Talbot, and for the last 25 years of his life 
was the 13th Earl of Shrewsbury, though 
no title could add to the lustre of his virtues. 
One pedigree says, he was eldest son of 
Gilbert, the second son of John, the lOth 
Earl of Shrewsbury : another contends he 
was son of Thomas, the fifth son of the said 
John, Earl of Shrewsbury. Renouncing 
all the prospects of fame and fortune, he en- 
tered himself as an humble Novice at Wat- 
ten 10 April, 1694. He is described by all 
that knew him, as a man of prayer, of un- 
affected humility, — of great self-denial, and 
of such exemplary charity to the poor, as- 



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occasionally to havestript himself of part of 
his clothes, to cover the needy. 

Oil 22 August, 1709, he was enrolled 
among the Professed Fathers. By the 
death of Charles, the I2th Earl, and 1st 
Duke of Shrewsbury, (which happened at 
Isleworth, 1 February, 1718) this humble 
Jesuit succeeded in right to the Earldom; 
but, long before, had renounced the Family 
estates in favor of his younger brother, 
George Talbot, who married Mary, daughter 
of Thomas Viscount Fitzwilliam, of Mer- 
rier, in Ireland, reserving to himself a very 
moderate peculiam, * 

For several years Ingatestone and Dun- 
kenhalgh were honoured by the exercise of 
his Priestly Ministry. I have ascertained 
that he was Superior of his brethren in Lan- 
cashire, from 29 January, 1734, to 15 
August, 1738. It seems, at the expiration 
of this Superiority, he removed to London, 
where having finished his work upon earth, 
he meekly and cheerfully resigned his soul 
to God, 22 July, 1743, get. 70. The Re- 
gister of St. Pancras shews that his mortal 
remains were privately deposited there two 
days after his decease. 

The Provincial, Henry Turbeville, in a 
letter bearing date 3 July, 1726, details 
several cases of losses and forfeitures of 
rights and property sustained by the English 
Province of the Society, by reason of the 
pressure of the Penal Laws — "that of F. 
Cotton who fell heir at law to a brother of 
his who died intestate, by which he might 
have got some fifteen thousand pounds, but 
the relations, availing themselves of the 
Law, declaring pious to be superstitious 
uses, awarded very little of his right. 
Witness brother Simeon's will, which dis- 
posed of eight or ten thousand pounds for 
religious purposes, but which was openly 
violated and set aside as waste paper. 
Witness also Mr. Gilbert Talbot, or Grey, 
"who was to have had paid him d£'400O. ; 
but not being able to produce in Court the 
will of Sir George Wint our, which gave it 
him, by reason there was mentioned in it 
* Father of the Society,' he only got just 
by gift, 1000." 

Griffin. John. — This scholastic had 

* The unfortunate Duke, la his will, passes over 
this good Father, in favour of the younger brother 
George, and sets forth in the Act ofsettlement, that 
the said Gilbert is resolved not to marry, and being 
desirous to pay a due observance to the in- 
tention of the said Duke, expressed in the 
said Settlement and Will, hath persuaded 
his younger brother, the said George Talbot, to 
marry the Hanouiable Mary Fitzwilliam, &c. His 
Grace's object was to secure the property to Protes- 
tant heirs, in case the said George Talbot should 
have no issue male, and even to encourage Catholic 
Heirs, whoever they might be, to become protestants ; 
for a clause is introduced placing the whole property 
at their disposal. " in case of conformity to Protes- 
tantism." In the Act, Dr. William Talbot, then 
Lord Bishop of Salisbury, (and who died Bishop of 
Durham, 10 October, 1730) is named as the nearest 
Protestant heir, but his Lordship's family cannot 
establish any direct Pedigree. 



just commenced the study of Philosophy, at 
Liege, when Almighty God took him to 
himself, 18 October, 1693, fet, 19, Soc. 2. 

Griffin, Richard, a young man of 
special promise, and most friendly to FF. 
Persons and Campian on their first arrival 
in London, 1580. I learn from Mr. Per- 
sons that *'he went afterwards into volun- 
tary banishment, entered into the Society 
of Jesus, and died at Rome, a youth of great 
forwardness and expectation, both for virtue 
and learning." 

G-iFFiTH, G EORGE : entered the Society 
31 October, 1688 ; was employed for several 
years in the Welsh Mission, where I 
imagine he consummated his course, 2 
August, 1718, set. 60. 

•Griffith, Robert, died in England; 
but I can gather nothing more than his 
name. 

Grimes, Matthew. — His true name 
was Bazier. At the age of 24 he joined 
the English Province, S. J. Sent to the 
English Mission, his quality of Foreigner, 
(for he was actually born at Rouen^ en- 
abled him for a time to exercise his priestly 
functions with comparatively greater free- 
dom and confidence than the rest of his 
brethren, but at length he was thrown into a 
London Jail, where he died " Fcstore 
carceris extinctus," 11 August, 1650, aet. 
42. 

Grimston, John, (alias Lane,) of Coun- 
ty Oxon. After 25 years of indefatigable 
exertion in the Welsh Mission, he ex- 
changed labour for everlasting rest 27 Sep- 
tember, I649,aet. 73. **iionmagis pid morte 
quam vita religiosd laudandus." 

Grivel, Fidelis. His long and faithful 
services to Stonyhurst, and the Province 
cannot be forgotten. In a letter which I 
received from F. Hen. Beeston, dated from 
Stonyhurst, 9 Sept. 1830, he says " We are 
all exceedingly sorry to part with F. Grivel, 
who seems particularly attached to our Pro- 
vince. He is a man of most pleasing man- 
ners, ever ready to do for any individual what- 
ever lies in his power." Proceeding to Mary- 
land, he was soon after appointed Master of 
Novices at Marsh, an office he filled with 
credit " for 3 years and more." In the 
Spring of 1835, he was stationed in the 
Mission of St. Inigo, Maryland. He died 
at George Town, 1842. 

Grose, John, of Norfolk ; at the age of 
30 joined the Society, and was admitted to 
the profession of the Four Vows, 12 May, 
1622. In the English Mission, where he 
passed by the name o( Felton, he was con- 
spicious for his exemplary diligence in an- 
nouncing the word of God, on Sundays and 
Holidays. Towards the close of 30 years 
labour in the vineyard, he was apprehended, 
in attempting to visit F. John Hudd, a 
prisoner for the faith, in Lincoln jail ; but 
at length obtaining his discharge, he died 
suddenly, in that City, 27 February, 1645, 
set. 65, just after finishing hid thanksgiving. 



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after Mass. See the annual letters, of 
1645, Tanner and Florus Anglo-Bavaricus, 
Groves, John, of County Monmouth; 
died Rector of the Welsh Mission, 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1674, set. 46, Soc. 24. The annual 
letters describe him as " Vir omnino phis 
et rectus:' He passed by the name of 
Archer. 

Grosvenor, John, died at St. Ger- 
maine's in 1695. 

Grou, John Nicholas. This French 
Father, born 24 November, 1731, was the 
author of several Literary and Spiritual 
■works, some of which have been translated 
from French into English by F. F. Clinton 
and Laurensoi\ When the French revolu- 
tion broke forth, this worthy Father met 
with an honourable asylum at Lulworth 
Castle, and there he finished his lengthened 
course 13 December, 1803. The following 
inscription appears on his grave stone in 
the family vault beneath the Chapel. 

t 

Hie situs est 
Joannes Nicholaus Grovius 
Sacerdos 
Pieiatis cuUor assiduus 
Ob Catholicam professionem 
Actus in exilium. Hunc in amplexu 
Crucis defunclum inter suos condidit 
Thomas Weld^ Pietatis Causa 
Vixit Annas LXXII, 
Veteris Instituli quod 
In Societate Jesu 
Ceperat, unice 
Amans. 
Decessit Idihus Decembris 

MDcccni. 

R. 1. p. 

See also p. 44, Supplement ii. Biblioth 
Scriptorum S. J. Romce, 1816. 

GuiLi-iM, Henry, of London : admitted 
into the English College at Rome in 1691, 
and shortly after joined the Society. He 
was Professed 15 August, 1709, and chiefly 
resided at Ghent ; where he died 11 Janu- 
ary, 1742. 

*GuiLFORn, George, whose real name 
was Garnet, and a kinsman of the celebra- 
ted F. Henry Garnet ; he died a Scholas- 
tic at Seville. 

Hacon, Hubert, was admitted at Wat- 
ten, 7 September, 1698, and after finishing 
his divinity at Liege, was sent to the Eng- 
lish Mission. For some time was chaplain 
to the Ferrers family, but on the death of 
F. Richard Holland, in the summer of 1740, 
became his successor at Wardour, where he 
died 9 May, O. S. 1751, 8ged 73. His 
grave-stone in Tisbury Church is thus in- 
scribed 

Hicjacet Hubertus Hacon. 
Obiit Mali nono ; Anno Dni, 1751. 

Requiescat in pace. 
*Haeghe, Vander Philip. This Flan- 
drian joined the English Province, 15 June, 
1686, and died at Watten, before com- 



pleting his Noviceship, viz. 17 February^ 
1688, iBt. 26. 

*HAGGERMA]sr, Charles, of Flanders, died 
at Ghent, 27 March, 1748, set. 64, Soc. 33. 

Haggerston, Henry, 3rd son of Sir 
Thomas Haggerston, by his wife Margaret 
Howard. I cannot discover when or where 
he inlisted under the banner ofSt. Ignatius %. 
but I find him serving the Mission in the 
North of England, in the early pait of the 
18th Century : and there he died 12 March, 
1714. 

H/'Ggerston, John, younger brother of 
Henry aforesaid, became a Novice 7 Sep- 
tember, 1680, as I find by a fragment of a 
Journal, formerly kept at Watten. He was 
also employed as a Missionary in the North 
of England, where he rested from his labors 
in 1726. 

Hagerty, John, born in London, 29 
October, 1795, educated at Stonyhurst : 
embraced the Institute of the Society 7 Sep- 
tember, 1815 ; was ordained Priest at Fri- 
burgh, 10 March, 1827, and sent to the la- 
borious Vineyard of Wigan, 25 June, 
the same year. la the zealous discharge 
of his pastoral duties, he caught a typhus 
fever, and after lingering a few days, re- 
signed his spirit to him, in whose service 
his life was spent and sacrificed, 13 Octo. 
ber, 1834. His death was justly regarded 
as a severe bereavement and calamity, 
both by his flock and the Province, for he 
was truly a religious man, and of con- 
siderable talents and great promise. Thir- 
teen Priests, and an immense concourse of 
real mourners did honour to his funeral 
obsequies. See page 102 of the Catholic 
Magazine, for December 1834. 

*Hales, Thomas (alias JDawcs,) died at 
Arras, 24 January, 1709, set. 43. Soc 19. 

Mall, Kdavard. The first time that I 
meet him is in 1687, when he was appointed 
one of the Masters in the Savoy College, 
London. He died at Watten 25 October, 
1707. 

*Hall , James. This Scholastic died as 
Liege, 8 March, 1740, set. 24, Soc. 6. 

Hall, John, admitted in 1683 ; died at 
Ghent, 9 July, 1703, at. 39. 

Hallsall, George, of Lancashire; en- 
tered an alumnus of the English College at 
Rome, in 1732. In the fragment of thet 
Watten Journal, so often quoted, I read^ 

"29 November, 1739, Mr. Hallsall, P 
young P.oman Priest, admitted here." 

In the autumn of 1742, he left Liege for 
the English Mission, where he died pre- 
maturely, 31 July, 1744, set. 80. 

*Hamy, Bernard. This lay-brother, a 
native of Artois, but aggregated to the Eng- 
lish Province, died in Maryland 24 March, 
1676, set. 58, 

Hammersley, Thomas, born 13 Feb- 
ruary, 1724, admitted in 1755. 

Hammerton, Gervase, joined the 
Novices at Watten, 20 January, 1687; for 
several years was a fellow labourer with 



Ill 



his Rev. Brethren, in the College of St. 
Aloysius, where he died 8 October, 1708, 
set. 40. 

Hammerton, Henry, admitted 28 Sep- 
tember, 1669. He long resided at Ponte- 
fract, where he was deservedly esteemed 
and reverenced for his pastoral zeal and 
disinterested charity, especially when the 
putrid fever ravaged the North of England, 
in 1682. 

In the Annual Letters I find it recorded, 
that during the reign of James II. F. 
Henry Hammerton, assisted by two of 
his Brethren, erected a capacious Chapel, 
Sacellum peramplum, and opened a 
School in Pontefract, where he had about 
60 Scholars. On the Sundays and Festi- 
vals there was a numerous audience, at the 
sermons in the morning, and at the 
evening Catechistical intructions. Gene- 
rally fifty or sixty communicated publicly 
at the Solemn Feasts. Many were the 
reconciliations to the Catholic Faith, and 
this good Father industriously circulated 
amongst the poor, books of piefy, and 
controversial treatises. When the vener- 
able Bishop Leyburn visited this establish- 
ment, on 27 July, 1687, no less than 230 
received the sacrament of confirmation at 
his hands, (see page 86, vol. 4, Catholicon,) 
and we collect from the annual letters 
that six of the Scholars complimented his 
Lordship on his arrival, and that he con- 
descended 10 express himself as highly 
gratified with their addresses. At the fatal 
revolution, the Chapel and School were 
closed; the Father himself was seized, like 
a vile malefactor, and hurried to York jail, 
where he found his Rev. Confreres FF. 
Francis Every and Andrew Norris, already 
incarcerated, the victims of the new-born 
liberty. At his subsequent discharge from 
prison, F. Hammerton retired abroad, and 
died in peace, at Ghent, 24 February, 1718, 
ffit. 72. 

Hammerton, Peter, brother, I believe, 
to F. Henry above mentioned, entered an 
alumnus of the English College at Rome, in 
1660, and probably joined the Society in 
that City. He was settled at Lincoln with 
two more of his brethren. Here they had a 
Chapel, not very spacious, but remarkably 
neat, and well frequented ; as also a con- 
siderable School. In the early part of July 
1G^^7, Bishop Leyburn, in the course of his 
visitation, came to Lincoln, where F. Ham- 
merton and his companions received him 
with honour, and presented 149 persons for 
confirmation. Every thing now wore a 
prosperous appearance ; the Father decided 
on purchasing a larger and better house, 
one of the .uost respectable in the City ; the 
contract was nearly concluded, when the hur- 
ricane of the revolution arose and swept all 
before it ; the phrensied populace suddenly 
hastened to the Father's house, vowing they 
would tear him limb by limb, but he had 
fortunately withdrawn just before, Avilh his 

2c 



companions ; the rage of the mob was then 
directed to the Chapel and House, which 
they levelled to the ground ; the furniture 
and books were publicly burnt, the building 
materials were exposed to sale. Though 
the Father escaped being sacrificed to the 
fury of the revolutionists, he was shortly- 
after recognized and apprehended in York- 
shire, and for 9 months lay a prisoner in the 
jail of that county. I meet with him in 
London, in 1701 ; three years later his 
merits raised him to the rank of Provincial, 
he continued in that office 5 years. He 
died in England, 29 November, 1714. 

*Hanscotter, Charles; born 29 Janu- 
ary. 1705 ; admitted 28 May, 1743 ; died 
at Bruges, 23 January, 1768. 

Hanne, Charles ; bora at Deviock, 
near Bodmin, 14 June, 1711. At the age 
of 20 joined the Novices at Watten, and 
in the 38th year of his age was numbered 
with the Professed Fathers. For some 
years was Superior of his Brethren in Wor- 
cestershire ; but for at least the last forty 
years of his life was stationed in Northum- 
berland. He died at Haggerstone, 27 April, 
1799. 

Hammer, Francis ; of a good family in 
Leicestershire ; at the age of 17 dedicated 
himself to God in the Society, and became 
a Professed Father, 7 August, 1633. It is 
clear from "Lady Warner's Life," that he 
was her cousin, and descended from the 
Hammers, of Flintshire. He had the repu- 
tation of being an excellent Scholar. His 
death occurred in London, 2 December, 
1666, aet.73. 

Hammer, John, admitted a Novice 1 
February, 1691, aged 27. I doubt if this 
worthy Priest was ever on the Mission. 
He was chiefly employed in teaching Hu- 
manities at St. Omer's, where he died 29 
April, 1716. 

Hahcourt, Henry, (alias Beaumont,) 
of a good family, in Liecestershire ; joined 
the Society in 1636 ; after cultivating the 
English vineyard for 30 years, he paid the 
debt of nature, 11 May, 1673, set. 62. F. 
Southwell, (p. 326, Biblioth,) says he pub- 
lished in English, an ''Epitome of Ven. 
Bede's Church History." London, 1658. 

Harcourt, John ; born in Staffordshire, 
1G33 ; was admitted at the age of 20. I 
regret that I cannot follow out his Bio- 
graphy. 

Harcourt, Thomas, whose real name 
was Whilbread, was born in Essex, in 
1618 ; at the age of 17 piety led him to the 
Novitiate ; on 8 December, 1652, he was 
numbered among the Professed Fathers. 
For full 30 years he was the Model to his 
Brethren, of Missionary zeal and charity. 
In 1678, his eminent merits reccommended 
him for the office of Provincial ; but in the 
first year of his superiority, this harmless 
Father was violently seized, in the house 
of Count Egmont, the Spanish Ambassador, 
in London, thrown into Newgate, and fell 



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one of the innocent victims of the miscreant 
Oates' horrible perjuries, on 30 June, N.S. 
1679.* For the account of his trial and 
execution, see F. Mathias Tanner's " Bre- 
vis Relatio," and " Ckalloner's Memoirs, 
Sec." His precious remains, with those of 
his four companions, FF. Waring, Fen- 
wick, Turner, and Gavan, were buried un- 
der the North Wall of St. Giles Church 
Yard, in the Fields, near to London, as 
we find p. 177, vol. i. Wood's Athense, 
Oxon. London, Ed. 1691. His two short 
Poems *' To Death," and "To his Soul," 
are preserved in the Remonstrance of 
Piety and Innocence)" a 12mo. printed 
in London, 1683, pp 190, where is also his 
Devout elevation of the Mind to God," 
a most affecting and beautiful composition, 
in which he conjures his crucified redeemer, 
to preserve him from doing any thing un- 
worthy of his blessed name, or that state of 
life, into which, through the divine mercy, 
he had been admitted," but with a mind ele- 
vated to Thee, and Heaven, I may show that 
christian patience and fortitude, which be- 
comes rae, before God, Angels and Men." 

*0n this pretended Catholic plot, and the guilty 
credulity of the legislature, which has left such an 
indelible stain on the national character, I cannof, 
forbear to submit to the reader the following extract 
from " The Peveril of the Peak." 

" Who has been hunted on the stern and unmit- 
i gable accusations, but has been at last brought to 
bay ? Did high and noble birth, honoured age and 
approved benevolence, save the unfortunate Lord 
Staford? Did learning, capacity of intrigue, or 
high Court favour, redeem Coleman, although the 
confidential servant of the Heir Presumptive to the 
Crown of England? Did subtlety, and genius 
and the exertions of a numerous sect save Fenwick? 
or Whitbread, or any of the accused Priests, 
Were Groves, Pickering, or the other wretches, 
who have suffered, safe in their obscurity ? There 
is no condition of life, no danger of talent, no form 
of principle, which affords protection, against an 
accusation, which levels conditions, confounds 
characters, renders men's virtues their sins, and 
rates them as dangerous, in proportion as they have 
influence, though attained in the noblest manner, 
and used for the best purposes. Call such a one but 
an accessary to the Plot — let him be mouthed in 
the evidence of Oates or Dugdale, and the blind- 
est shall forsee the issue of their trial." 

" Prophet of evil, said Julian, my Father has a 
Shield invulnerable, to protect him. He is Inno- 
cent ! " 

" Let him plead his innocence at the Bar of Hea- 
ven, said the voice : it will serve him little where 
Scroggs presides." 

" Still, I fear not, said Julian, counterfeiting more 
confidence than he really possessed ; my Father's 
cause will be pleaded before Twelve Englishmen. 

" Better before twelve Wild Beasts," answered 
the Invisible, than before Englishmen, influenced 
■by Party Prejudice, Passion, and the epidemic 
terror of an Imaginary Danger." 

But what disgusts and shocks one the most in this 
inost infamous and bloody transaction is the wreck- 
less conduct of that unprincipled and voluptuous 
Sovereign, Charles II. Apprised as he was of the 
villainy of the plot, from the very beginning core- 
firmed in the belief of its being all a fiction, never be- 
lieving one tittle of it," yet he cruelly sported with 
the character and lives of innocent and loyal sub- 
jects, taking for his model the wicked President, 
JPoniius Pilate. See the first Vol, of the li/e of 
James the Second, collected out of the Stuart 
Papers, by Dr. Clarke, Librarian to his late Majesty 
Geo. IV. 



His prayer was heard, and his death con- 
founded his enemies. In falling a victim 
to their tyrannical iniquity, be could say 
with Teriullian in his apology, "We thank 
you for condemning us, because there is 
such a blessed discord between the Divine 
and Human judgment, that v/hen you con- 
demn us upon Earth, God absolveth us in 
Heaven." 

F. Whitbread had prepared for the press, 
" an English Version of Pere Hayneufs 
Meditatiom 

Harcourt, William, of Monmouth- 
shire : his real name was Ailworlh : at the 
age of 16 (not 20 as F. N. Southwell 
asserts, p. 311 Biblioth.) he joined the So- 
ciety, and in the sequel attained considerable 
raputation as a Philosopher and Divine. 
Hedied at Haerlem ex ^rumnis" 10 Sep- 
tember, 1679, set. 54 Rel. 38. Prof. 21. 
We have from his pen " Metaphysica Scho- 
lastica," fol. Cologne, 1675. 

Hardesty, John, commenced his 
Noviceshipin 1699, aiid at the usual period 
was numbered among the professed Fathers. 
For a time served the Liverpool Mission : 
but died at Daven^ry, on a journey,! May, 
1752. having just entered his 72nd year. 

Harding, Kobert. This English Fa- 
ther devoted himself to God in the Pen- 
sylvania Mission. He passed from labor 
to rest at Philadelphia, 1 September, 1772, 
set. 71. Bel. 50. 

Hares, or Harris. Charles, a native of 
Wales : at the age of 20 embraced the pious 
institute of the Society: was enrolled among 
the professed Fathers- 11 November, 1646. 
He was a noble Confessor of the faith, but 
the hardships he endured in prison, in all 
probability accelerated his death, which 
happened in England 22 February, 1632. 

Harewood, Edmund.— From a letter of 
F. Persons to F, Edmund Caropian, dated 
Rome, 28, November, 1578, I ascertain that 
F. Harewood was born in Paternoster Row,, 
London. F. More, p. 24 of his History ac- 
quaints us, that he was admitted into the 
Society at Rome, and for 19 years he partly 
filled the situation of Minister of the English 
College in that city, and partly of Peniten- 
liary at St. Peter's. He died 21 September, 
1597. 

Harrington, Nicholas, died at St. 
John's, Louvain, in 1614, just before the 
removal of the Members of that house to 
Liege : in the Jst. year of his Noviceship, 
and at the early age of 28 he was car- 
ried oflFby fever on 16 May, in the year 
aforesaid. 

Harris, Raymond, the second son of a 
genteel, but not wealthy family called 
Hormasa, was horn at Bilbao 4 September, 
1744. Admitted into the Order 21 Septem- 
ber, 1756, he was conveyed, with many of 
his brethren, to Corsica, when the despotic 
sentence of expatriation was executed 
against the Spanish Jesuits I April, I767i 
Quitting them in Corsica, after divers wan- 



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derings, he was, says F. Thorpe, by an 
inconsiderate pity, left too soon, and too 
much at liberty, by the subsequent suppres- 
sion of the Order. He had previously to 
this event reached Englnnd, and for a short 
time was Chaplain at Walton Hall. Pro- 
ceeding thence to T^iverpool, he occasioned 
rauch embarrassment and distressful feeling 
to his brethren: and during the remainder 
of his days manifested but little of the spirit 
and fruits of the Society in his conduct. 
He died at Liverpool I May, 1789. 

Harris, Thomas, born in Wales, inl595 : 
at the age of 24 joined the Order, and five 
years later was sent on the Mission, where I 
still find him actively engaged in 1655. 

Hakrison. Edmund, admitted in 174*3, 
his profession in the Order took place at Ly- 
thara, Lancashire 2 February, 1764 : he died 
in London la: November. 1801 , set 74. 

*Harrison, George, admitted 2 Dacerri- 
ber, 1688: this temporal Coadjutor died at 
Ghent, 23 January, 1713,a3t.68. 

Harrison, Henry. All that I can col- 
lect of him is, that he died in 1701, set. 49. 
Soc. 28 

Harrison, James, certainly entered the 
Novitiate at Watten, 7 September, 1695, set. 
22. 1 believe he was consigned to an early 
tomb. 

Harrison, John. The first was born in 
Worcestersfiire : when 21 years of age, 
joined the Society, and died in England, in 
the course of the troublesome year 1678, set. 
63. 

The 2nd was admitted 7 Sept. 1708, ast. 
18, but I can obtain no further evidence 
abouthis subsequent history. 

Harrison, Philip. The only informa- 
tion lean procure of this Father, is from 
p. 23 of More's history, where he is stated 
to have been from Oxford — that after finish- 
ing his studies at Pont a Mousson, he was 
appointed to teach Philosophy, Ethics, and 
Mathematics, at Worms — that he was sub- 
sequently selected for a Penitentiary at St. 
Peters — that he was admitted at Rome 
among the professed Fathers — that he died 
ia England the year after his profession ; 
but no dates are given. 

Harrison, Thomas, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted in 1638. He died in the English 
Mission ; but I cannot recover the date. 

*Harrison, William. Of this worthy 
temporal coadjutor, all that I can learn is 
that he died at'St. Omer, 9 April, 1644, aet. 
68, Rel.32. 

Hart, John. This illustrious Con- 
fessor of Catholic Faith, and brilliant Lu- 
minary of Douay College, was ambitious 
whilst in fetters, on the rack, and under sen- 
tence of death, to be associated to the So- 
ciety of Jesus Ur. Allen, in a letter dated 
2 March, 1583, addressed to F. Agazzari, 
so often mentioned before, mentions the 
receipt of reveral letters from England " et 
inter etceteras habeo, Johannis Ilarti qui 
Societatem vestram inyrcdi desiderata 



constantissimi Confessoris,'* He bags 
him to communicate these letters to the 
General Aquaviva *• quia se dicavit Hartus 
vcslrcB Socletati." In another letter 28 
May, that year, that worthy President 
generously says, Pergat in nomine 
Domini cum licentia Pap(set Protector is.** 
It is said that he was admitted into the 
Society whilst in prison, 18 March, 1583. 
Rishton's diary shews, that he v/as not re- 
leased from the Tower of London, to be 
sent to banishment, until 21 June, 1585, 
and that veorthy fellow-sufferer designates 
him then as a Priest S.J. Landed on the 
coast of Normandy, he proceeded to Ver- 
dun, and thence to Rome. His Superiois 
ordered him to Poland, and he died at 
Jarislau, according to one account, 19 July, 
1586: another account says 1594. More, 
p. 138 Hist, and Tanner, p. 218 of his 
Confessors of the Society, assert that seven 
years after his death, his body was found 
incorrupt. 

The conference of F. Hart, with John 
Rainolds, was printed by G. Bishop, 4to. 
London, 1584; but is unfairly reported. 

Hart, Nicholas, entered an alumnus of 
the English College at Rome, in 1599. I 
meet with him as a prisoner, in the Gate- 
house, London, 27 May, 1612. He had 
been apprehended before with F. John 
Fisher, scoa after the discovery of the 
Gunpowder Plot; but was exiled after 
twelve month's iraprisonment. At the aga 
of 68 he was again arrested ; butdischarged 
a few months later. He died of Palsy in 
the Welsh Mission, 26 July, 1650, set. 72, 
Rel 46. Prof. 28. Oftentimes he passed by 
the name of Strangeways. 

Hart, Wiliam. — This accomplished 
gentleman was of a wealthy Father. F, 
Thomas Strange introduced him to F. 
Gerard, who taught him the practice of 
mental prayer. The reading of spiritual 
books, and especially the work of F. Jerome 
Platus *'oM the Happiness of the Religious 
State," gave him a vehement wish to enter 
the Society of Jesus. When F. Gerard 
wrote his Latin Auto-Biography, about the 
year 1609, he says of him Jam est ulilis 
in Anglia operarius et idoneus qui inter 
nobiles convei setur." He died afterwards 
at Rome, but! fear thedateis irrecoverable. 

Hartley, John, born in London, 1 No- 
vember, 1716 ; studied in Spain : made his 
Simple Vows at Watten, 14 of June, 1741; 
was admitted at the same place to the Pro- 
fession of the Four Vows 2 February, 
1751; died at St. Omer 3 March, 1760. 

Kartwell, Bernard, of Bucks, admit- 
ted at the age of 19 : died in Maryland in 
the course of the year 1646, set. 41. 

Hatclifp, Vincent, see Spenser, John. 

Hattersky, orHATHERSTY, Jos, bom in 
London 15 October, 173G: at the age of 13 
was adniitted an alumnus of the English 
College at Rome — four years later joined 
the Society. This zealous Father died at 



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Philadelphia 8 May, 1771, at the early 
period of life 35. 

Harvey, Edward, (alias Baines,) but 
whose true name was Mico, was of a good 
Essex family. On 26 January, 1647, was 
received among the scholars of the English 
College at Rome : on 15 July, 1650, entered 
the Novitiate at Watten, and 2 February, 
1666, took rank as a Professed Father. 
His zeal on the Mission, his singular pru- 
dence and meekness, and his talents for 
business, obtained him the place of Socius 
to the Provincials Gray, Strange, and 
Whitbread. In the beginning of Oates* 
Plot, this peaceful Father was Inhumanly 
dragged from his sick bed in the house of 
the Spanish Embassador, Count Egraont, 
and beaten with the butt end of the 
soldiers' muskets, and thrown aside into 
Newgate. On 3 December, 1678, N. S., he 
was found dead on his knees, oppressed with 
the weight of his irons. The Fiorus Anglo 
Bavaricus incorrectly dates his death in the 
year following. 

With the Permission of Father N. B. 
alias Nathaniel Bacon, alias Southwell, 
the Learned Biographer, so often quoted in 
these pages, he translated into English his 
Latin M.S. meditations, to which he made 
considerable additions. This 8vo, volume 
was edited at London by the title " of Me- 
ditations for every dap in the year" 
1669, pp. 488. See my letter in Cath. 
Magazine, Nov. 1833, pp. 241-3. 

Harvey or Hervey, George ; I suspect 
this is the Father mentioned by Lord Castle- 
maine In p, 450 of the Caiholique Apology, 
Sd Edit, to whom Hubert a Huguenot and 
pretended Incendiary of London, had ap- 
plied for instruction id the Catholic Faith. 
The Noble Lord thus expresses himself: 
I must tell my reader who this F. Hervey 
is:— ^By nation he is a Low-country man ; 
havingwith leave eatered himself among the 
English Jesuits, as several do, who desire 
to spend their whole life in Mission. He 
is an ancient, quiet and pious man, and 
though 'tis lately I knew him, I soon found 
him to be of a holy and Angelical conversa- 
tion. Many Priests beicg from time to 
time imprisoned, brought him acquainted 
with Newgate, where sometimes he assisted 
those that went to die." His Lordship 
adds, that Hubert was not admitted to re-^ 
ceive the Holy Communion with the rest of 
the prisoners, on account of his want of 
Faith, and proper disposition — tbatF. Her- 
vey never saw the unhappy wretch after, 
and he concludes," This is the true story 
which I had from Mr. Hervey's own 
mouth." — I regret to add that I can dis- 
cover no other particularu of this venerable 
man. 

Haf.vey, Giles, (alias Mica:) entered 
the English College at Rome in 1616; quit- 
ted when in Priests' Orders, four years later, 
to join the Society. I learn from extracts 
taken nearly 160 years ago from the diary 



kept by the Minister of the English College 
at Rome, that F.Harvey returned to that 
city 16 September, 1623, to be Penitentiary 
at St. Peter's. That office he filled for 
many years, as well as of Minister in the 
English College, of the library of which he 
may be stiled the founder. On the death 
of F. William Risdon, 27 October, 1644, 
eager to multiply his services, he undertook 
the business of agent for his English Bre- 
thren. This effort of zeal drew from the 
Provincial F. Edward Knott, the following 
letter :— 

+ 

Rde. in Xto. Pater. 

Pax Chris ti, 
I have yours of the 12 of 9br. and beseech 
sweet Jesus to reward the pains you are 
taking for our Province since F. Risdon's 
death, especially your health being such as 
you mention ; though, with all I shall be 
willing to hope, that stirring may help to 
remove your troublesome guest, 1 mean that 
Catarrh which hath troubled you so long. In 
the mefin tyme your merit is increased by 
the difBcultie you fiiide to travel! even on 
horseback : and a martyrdom may be had, 
though one be farr from Tiburne. 

God be blessed for so plentiful a vintage, 
and make us thankful very for that plentie, 
and for our sufferings and wants in these 
tymes. Bonum Dominum habemus, to 
whose holy Grace, Dear Father, 1 commit 
you, and begg parte in your holy Sacrifices. 
Gant, Slh of lObr. 1644. 

R. Vae, 

F. Giles Harvey. Servus in Xto. 

Edward Knott. 

This worthy Father died at Rome 22 Oc- 
tober, 1647. 

Harvey, John, was boru in London, 
and admitted into his Noviceshipin 1651. 
I suspect he often passed by the name of 
Barton. He was certainly living in Wor- 
cestershire in 1704, being then 72 years old. 
The date of his death 1 search for in vain, 

Harvey, Thomas, younger brother of 
John, I believe, born in London in 1635 ; 
at the age of 20 joined the Society, after 
which he escapes my observation. 

Hathersty, Joseph, born in London 15 
October, 1736 ; entered an alumnus of the 
English College at Rome in 1749 ; and four 
years later joined the Society. After his 
ordinations he offered himself with a good 
and willing mind, and generous heart, for 
the American Blission. God called him to 
himself at Philadelphia 3 May, 1771, at 
the early age of 35. 

Hayers, Thomas, of Thelton, admitted 
7 Sept, 1668, In the sequel, I meet with 
him as Prefect at St. Omer's College, but 
can glean nothing further than that he died 
at Watten 16 May, 1737, aet. 69. 

*Hausolier, Frakcis.— This useful lay- 
brother died at Liege, on 15 May, 1789, in 
the 69th year of his age, and the 38th from 
his admission into I^eligion. 



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Hawker, John, born 8 October, 1687: at 
the age of seventeen enlisted under the ban- 
ner of St. Ignatius, and after serving under 
it for 17 years, was promoted to the rank of 
a Professed Father. For a considerable pe- 
riod was employed in the Lincolnshire Mis- 
sion. Retiring to St. Omer's the venerable 
man had soon to witness the violent seizure 
of the College by the French Parliament. 
Too infirm to be removed at the dismission 
of his Brethren, 19 October, 1762, he was 
suffered to remain, until death released him 
from his anguish and miseries 14 June, 1764 
set. 77. 

Hawkins, Francis. — The Provincial re- 
turn of 1655, describes him as a Londoner. 
He died at Liege 19 February, 1681, aet. 59, 
Soc. 32. 

Hawkins, Henry, of a respectable family 
in Kent; but renounced in 1615 his patri- 
monial inheritance to embrace the poverty 
of Christ. Three years later (for he was in 
Priests' Orders before he entered the 
Society) he was with eleven other Fathers 
sentenced to banishment, but with most of 
them found means to return and resume 
their labours in England, as we learn from 
p. 378 of More's History. After bearing 
the burdens and heats of the vineyard for 25 
years, he retired to Ghent, where, on IS 
August, 1646, fflt. 71. he died in peace. 

We have from his pen : — 

1. An English Translation of F. John 
Floyd's ** Si/nopsis de JpostasiA Marci 
Antonii de Dominis. St. Omer, 1617, 

2. Certaine selected Epistles of St 
Hierome, 4to.l630, pp. 149. In this Vol. 
are also the Lives of St. Paul, the First 
Hermit, of St. Hilarion, the First Monk 
of Syria, and of St. Malchus, all written 
by St. Hierome. pp. 150. 

3. " Parthenia Sacra, with Verses and 
Emblems." 8vo. Rouen, 1632. 

4. " Life of St. Aldegunda, from the 
French of F. Binetti." 12mo. Paris, 1632, 

5. *' Life of St, Elizabeth.'' 12mo. 1632, 
pp. 415. with a beautiful portrait of the 
Saint by Picart. This compilation is de. 
dicated to Lady Jerneghan. 

6. " The Lives of 17 Holy Confessors, 
Translated from the Italian of F. Peter 
Maffceus." 4to Paris, 1636. 

Hawkins, Thomas, of Lancashire,born 21 
December, 1722, This alumnus of the En- 
gli-sh College at Rome joined the Society 
21 October, 1747, and within eleven years 
was admitted to the Profession of the Four 
Vows. For some time served the Stafford- 
shire Mission, but for the greater part of his 
life was chaplain at Oxburgh, where he 
died 19 July, 1785, In a letter of John 
Thorpe, dated 31 August that year, he thus 
addresses his friend, Kev. Charles Plowden. 

*' Many thanks for your charitable notice 
of F. Thomas Hawkins' death. He was 
my fellow Novice. The dues of the Socie- 
ty are paid for him, and the remembrance 
of him repeated, as brethren and friends 

2d 



have cause to expect. Not one of us, when 
on the other side of the grave, will call the 
expence of Postage ill bestowed, for a letter 
from and to a living brother, by whose 
sacrifices at the Altar we hope to be more 
speedily advanced to happiness," 

Haydon, John, of London. Attheag« 
of 26 was aggregated to the Order. This 
experienced Missionary died in England, 
1663, aet. 73. 

Hayman, Richard, (aWsis Pearse, John) 
entered the Novitiate in 1687: was Professed 
7 July, 1705. During his long Missionary 
career he resided either at Trevithick or at 
ToJfrey, in Cornwall. In the last men- 
tioned place he finished his mortal cause, as 
I learnt from one that knew him, 30 April, 
1756, set. 87. 

Hays, Henry, commenced hisNoviceship 
in 1698, and admitted to his solemn Profes- 
sion in the 18th year of his service under 
the banner of St. Ignatius, From the Lin- 
colnshire Mission, where he had been rector 
of his Brethren, he was recalled to govern 
the House of Probation at Ghent. He en- 
tered on that office 5 April, 1731, and at the 
expiration of three years and nine months, 
was allowed to return to England. He died 
I think in Kent, 15 October, 1739, set. 63. 

Hays, Thomas, born 7 January, 1746 : 
at the age of 19 joined the Society : died in 
1774, at Sheffield, soon after the suppres- 
sion of the Order, at the early age of 26. 

Hays, Timothy. — All that I can collect 
of him is, that he died in England 11 May, 
1646. He sometimes passed by the name 
of John Hamner. 

Haywood, Eliz^us, eldest son of John 
H., the epigramatist. Quitting his friends 
and country soon after the accession of 
Queen Elizabeth, he at length embraced the 
pious Institute of the Society, and 1 2 years 
later departed to our Lord. The letter ad- 
dressed to him by the Fourth General of the 
Society, F. Everard Mercurian, bearing 
date 15 January, 1574, shews how much 
he approved of the disposal of his proper- 
ty in Favour of the Colleges at Louvain,Co- 
logn, and Munich. See p. 23 of More's 
Hist. It earlier Life Elizseus had published 
in Italian *' l^Jl/oro," dedicated to Card. 
Pole, 8vo. .Florence, 1556. pp. ISO. It is 
surprising that F. Nath. Southwell omits in 
his Bibliotheca, Elizseus, and his brother 
Jasper. 

Haywood, Francis, died at Ghent, 15 
March 1706. In vain do I search for fur- 
ther particulars about him. 

Haywood, JASPEE,when a boy, was in the 
service of the Princess Elizabeth ; and as 
a youth distinguished himself by his poetical 
genius, and the translation of some of Sen- 
eca's Tragedies, I thinjc he left England 
with his brother Elizseus, and after receiving 
I'riesthood joined the Society at Rome 21 
May, 1562. He soon attained to such a re- 
putation for his skill in the Hebrew Lan- 
guage, and for Theological Science, as to 



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deserve the esteem and commendation of 
that excellent judge and Patron of merit, Pope 
Gregory the XIII. His zeal for souls in- 
duced him to accompany F. William Holt 
to England in the summer- of 1591. Just 
before his arrival, F. Persons had quitted 
the British shores for the Continent. In 
these times of danger, F. Haywood could 
hardly hope to elude the vigilance of spies 
and informers for any length of time. Ap- 
prehended at last, he had to suffer severe 
imprisonment; but the severity was mitiga- 
ted by the charitable attentions of F. Wm. 
Weston, who contrived to visit him in ths 
Tower of London as a Physician. The 
good Father was banished in June, 1585. 
He finally rested from his labours at Naples, 
9 January, 159S, set. 63. Soc. 36, Prof. 28. 
See his Life in the 4th Book of More's 
Hist, and in pp. 295-8 of Tanner's Confes- 
sors of the Society. 

Hearn, George, of Northumberland ; 
born in 1612: was admitted at the advan- 
ced age of 4)1. I meet with him two years 
later, and then he eludes my search. 

•Heath, Henry: died at Ghent 18 Jan- 
uary, 1701, set. 62, Rel. 27. 

Heatley, James, born in Lancashire 2 
April, 1715: entered the Novitiate at the 
age of 20 : was Professed at St. Omer's 2 
February, 1753; for a considerable time 
was chaplain at Broughton Hall, Yorkshire, 
Tfhere he died 1 1 May, 1782. 

♦Hblsam, Richard, died at Brussels 21 
April, 1721 set. 23, Rel. 5. 

Henry, John ; all that I can learn of 
this Father is, that he died in the United 
Slates of America, 12 March, 1823. 

♦Herman, Peter. — This lay-brother 
was certainly living at Rome 19 June, 1641. 

Hesketh, Thomas, of Lancashire. After 
finishing Humanities at St. Omer's College, 
proceeded to Watten in September, 1689. 
I meet with him at La Fleche in 1701 and 
1704. This worthy Father died at Watten, 
in the prime of life, 2 August, 1712 set. 43, 
Soc. 23. 

Hesketh, William, born in the Co. of 
Lancashire 14 May, 1717. At the end of 
Humanities his Master, Mr. Hen. Neele, 
conducted him with nine other scholars to 
the Novitiate, 7 September, 1735. This 
promising Scholastic was consigned to an 
early tomb, dying in England 30 Decem- 
ber, 1741, set. 24. 

Heton, John, entered the English Col- 
ledge at Rome, in 1621. I cannot follow 
out his history, but I learn from p. 312. 
Vol 3 of Mr, Dodd's Church History (arti- 
cle John Smith) that he was Superior of 
his B.B. in Lancashire in 1650, and was 
wrongfully accused of being au accomplice 
in the robbery of the Parsonage of Winwick, 
and that the accuser publicly retracted the 
foul calumny. 

*Heuseux, Giles Jos.: died at Ghent 27 
Feb. 1748, set. 33, Soc. 7. 
^ *Heuseux, John, This venerable lay 



brother died in his native city Liege, 9 Sep" 
tember, 17T1, at. 73, Soc. 36. 

Hewett, John, died at Rome 30 October, 
1688. He had arrived in that city but three 
years before from Flanders. His note book, 
written in 1686, contained some particulars 
relating to the suflFerers for Gates' Plot. 

*Hewet, Richard, of whom I can learn 
nothing, butthat he died at Watten, 9 April, 
1696. 

* Hicks, Joseph, a Temporal Coadjutor, 
who died at Rome, 31 January, 1755. set. 
37. Rel. 15. 

Higgins, Adam, of London. According to 
F. More's Hist. pp. 23-4 this venerable and 
learned Father finished his course at Seville 
in 1615. 

HiGGiNsoN, Thomas, died at Liege, 1 July, 
1632 set. 43. Soc. 8. 

Hildreth, John, admitted in 1677. 
After discharging the office of Penitentiary 
at Loretto for some time, he was directed 
to proceed to the English Mission ; but 
God disposed otherwise, for after a short 
illness he died in that City, 8 October, 1701, 
at. 47. 

Hildesley, Francis, This reverend Fa- 
ther died in England 17 June, 1719, set. 64, 
Rel. 44. 

Hildeyard, Thomas, of a genteel fa- 
mily in Lincolnshire : admitted amongst the 
Novices of the Society, 7 September, 1707, 
set. 17, and promoted to the rank of a profes- 
sed Father, 2 February, 1725. In 
September 1743, was declared rector of 
his Brethren, in the College of St. Francis 
Xavier, and died in that office, at Rother- 
was, in Herefordshire (where he had been 
Chaplain for along time) 10 April, 1746, 
N. S. set. 56. Father H. was a scientific 
Mechanic, anil profound student of the works 
of Gaspar Schott, S. J. the German Arch- 
in^edes, who had died 20 May, 1666. In the 
Ancient family Chapel at Eotherwas is a 
gravestone thus inscribed. 

Memoretur Thomas Hildeyard 
S. J. S. 
In agro Lincolniensi stirpe generosd oriundus 
In Deumpius, in Proximum humanus etbeneficus 
vitts integritate et modes Hd insignis : SchoUi 
Cultor et pene cequalis, in actis Lipsiensibus 
celebratus, Hispanidque noiua, quern lictt mort 
30 Martii 1746 turripuerit, tamen parafum et 
in plenitudine dierum. 
R. I. P. 

F. Caballero, in is recent supplement to 
the " Bibliotheca Scriptorum S. J." Rome 
1814, states in p. 57, that F. H. published a 
description of his invented Time- Piece. 
Some of his ingenious astronomical clocks 
are said to be at Holt and Rothervvas. 

Hill. John, at the age of 21, and the 
year 1704, commenced his Noviceship : was 
enrolled among the Professed Fathers, 2 
February, 1721; For a short time was in- 
cumbent at Stapehill iu Dorset; but for a 
lengthened period resided at Holywell. 
Retiring to London, he died there 6 May, 
1751. 



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ttiLL, Robert, (lied in England 14 Sep- 
tember, 1692. I take it, he is the Jesuit 
mentioned by Dodd, p. 149, vol. 3, Church 
hist. Perhaps also he is the Octogenarian 
Father recorded in the annual letters of 1685, 
to have manifested such presence of mind, 
discretion, zeal, and constancy, in Lincoln- 
shire, during the nationalpanic and delirium, 
occasioned by Oates' plot. 

*HiLTON, Adam, of Lancashire. This 
worthy lay-brother finished his earthly 
course at St. Omer's 15 January, 1714, ast. 
53, Rel, 26. 

HoBBs, John. — There were two of this 
name. The former joined the Society I 
Nov. 1677, set. 24: and died at St. Oraer2 
March, 1695. 

The latter born 21 November, 1698, en- 
tered the Novitiate 7 September, 1717. 

*HocF5:s, ( Q.Hogg) Arthur, was admit- 
ted as a Temporal Coadjutor by F. Persons, 
at Lisbon, about the year 1593. 

Hodgson, Charles, born in Lancashire 
20 November, 1742: admitted in 1760. 
This excellent scholar had the misfortune to 
lose his reason, and died at Liege some time 
after his removal to an asylum. Two of 
his Odes " Eia Veloces," and " DumPlau- 
sus" were published amongst the metrical 
pieces addressed by Liege College to the 
Prince Bishop Velbruck in 1772. 

*HoDGsoN, James, of Lancashire, born 2 
May, 1744: admitted in 1763. This scho- 
lastic died at Liege. 19 May, 1770. 

Hodgson, John, brother of Charles before 
mentioned : born in November, 1751 ; joined 
the Society 9 years after his said Brother. 
I think he succeeded F. Andrew Thorpe at 
Dunkenhalgh, where he ended his days 27 
April, 1807, and was interred inthe Cerae- 
try of the old Church at Preston. 

Hodgson, or Hudson, Thomas : admit- 
ted in 1703, set. 21: died in the Maryland 
Mission, 18 December, 1726. 

Holland, Alexander., born in Lan- 
cashire, 1623. After his promotion to 
Priesthood, joined the Society, and was 
admitted to the rank of a Professed Father 
9 July, 1661. After serving the Mission 
24 years, he died in his native county 29 
May, 1677. 

Holland, Guy, of Lincolnshire, educated 
?.t Cambridge, embraced the Institute of St. 
Ignatius in 1615, and was Professed 14 
July, 1628. After 45 years of indefatigable 
labor in the English vineyard, he was called 
up to receive his eternal recompence 26 
November, 1660, set. 73. F. Southwell 
barely mentions, p. 311, Bibl. his English 
Treatise " The Prerogative of Human 
Nature,'' or " On the Immortatity of the 
Souir 

•Holland, Henry. — I meet with two of 
this name. Of the 1st, a Temporal Coad- 
jutor, I collect that he died at Watten 21 
December, 1636. 

The second was a man of eminence, was 
uncle to F. Thomas Hoilaod the martyr, and 



was also condemned to death for the Faith, 
but the sentence was commuted for banish-^ 
raent. In the Provincial Return of 1655 we 
find it stated that he was then 79 years old . 
of which he had spent 46 in th3 Society, 41 
on the Mission, (viz. St. Aloysius' District, 
or Lancashire, his native County) and that 
he had been Professed as early as 12 May, 
16'42. This Dean of (he Province on his 
banishment retired to Liege College, where 
he spent the last 8 years of his life. Ex- 
hausted with labours and old age, he meek- 
ly resigned his soul to God 29 February, 
1656. 

In the elogiumof P. H. Holland, forward- 
ed to the General by the Rector of Liege 
College, F. John Clark, it is asserted, ** In 
Magna gravissimorum Patrum copH 
unus ille electus est, qui aiidiret primam 
confessionem celeberimi illius Virt inter" 
que suce cetatis doclissimos jure nume- 
randi, Dni Jacobi Andertoni de Los- 
tock, qui eruditum ilium scripsit librum^ 
cut titulus Protestantium Apologia." But 
I cannot help questioning if Mr. James 
Anderton was the Author: for the 1st edi- 
tion was printed abroad in 4to. pp. 191, In 
the year. 1604 : and after the advertisement 
to the reader, occur the simple initials of the 
writer I. Br. A second edition appeared in 
1608 so greatly enlarged as toswell the Seven 
Sections of the work into 751 pages, besides 
a copious index. In the Title page to this 
2nd editon, I read, " By John Brerely, 
Priest'' Did Mr. Anderton subsequently 
change his name and take Holy Orders ? 

Holland, John. — Ad. 30 July, 1699, set. 
20. Occurs as Missionary in Lincolnshire 
in 1701-4 and 1710: was Professed 15 Au- 
gust, 1707 : removed afterwards into Shrop- 
shire : and died 20 December, 1734. He 
was sometintes called Martindale. 

Holland, Richard, of Lancashire, born 
in 1676: admitted 7 September, 1697, Pro- 
fessed 2 February, 1715 : for many years re- 
sided at Wardour: was declared Rector of 
his Brethren in the College of St. Fran. 
Xavier 9 May, 1728 : continued in that office 
till the 26 July, 1734, when it seems he re- 
tired abroad. His death happened at Paris, 
4 July, 1740, set. 64. 

Holland, Thomas, (alias Sanderson.) 
This talented and saintly Missionary was 
apprehended in London 4 October, 1642, 
and after two months imprisonment was sa- 
crificed for his priestly character at Tyburn, 
12 December following', O. S. aet. 43. Sec. 
22. He was the first alumtius of Liege 
(JoUege who suffered death for the Catholic 
Faith. See his life and beautiful portrait in 
the Cerlamen Triplex ; also in Bishop 
Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests. 

For another Thomas Holland, see 
Thomas Ecclcston. 

Hollar, John : admitted 7 .September, 
1696, was master of Syntax at St. Omer ixx 
1704: died near la Fleche, 21 November, 
1712, at. 38. 



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Hqlt, Gilbert : he died in England 22 
May, 1725, set. 37. Soc. 15. 

Holt, William, of Lancashire : studied 
at Oriel College, Oxford. After his ordi- 
nations at Douay, he proceeded to Rome, 
where he joined the Society 8 May, 1578. 
In 1581 he was ordered to Scotland, where 
he resided for two years. Dr. Allen, in a 
letter written to F. Agazzari. 14 March, 
1583, says " P. Gulielmus Holt, Societatis 
vestrcB optime valet. Accept ab eo liter as 
Edinburgo scriptas inprincipio Januarii : 
est vir illi loco aptis&imus, insignisque 
operarius." In this Cardinal's letter to 
Chas. Paget, 4 January, 1594, he expresses 
himself of this good Father in the most 
favourable terms. 

On 24 October, 1586, F. Holtwas declared 
the Rector of the English College at Rome; 
but in the summer of 1588, was stationed at 
Brussells. The slanderous and persecuting 
system which he had to encounter there, from 
the English Faction, whilst it never ruffled 
the peace of his innocent and upright soul, 
eventually served to brighten his fame and 
secure to him the veneration of the wise and 
virtuous. " Mendaces ostendit Deus qui 
maculaverunt illvm.*' He ended his days 
peaceably at Barcelona in 1599, set. 54. See 
F. More's Hist, p. 270. Dodd's account of 
this great roan is slovenly, to say the least. 

HoLTBY, Richard, (alias Duckett) born 
atFraiton,in Yorkshire, 1563. After study- 
ing in both our Universities, he renounced 
the expectations of preferment to embrace 
the Catholic Faith, and to become the instru- 
ment of salvation to his neighbours. With 
this view he qualified himself partly at Douay 
and partly at Rheims for Holy Orders, and 
m due time was sent to the Norih of England, 
where he laboured with the fervid zeal of an 
Apostle. In 1383 he joined the Society. 
Naturally of an athletic constitution, he 
never spared himself any fatigue for the good 
of souls ; every leisure moment was put out 
to interest— the Devil could never find him 
idle. On the removal of F. Henry Garnett, 
the charge of his brethren in the English 
Mission devolved uponhim, and his govern- 
ment during the three years he retained 
office, was signalised by prudence, industry, 
firmness, and charity. This truly good man 
persevered to the end in the course of use- 
fulness, dying in the North of England 25 
or 26 May, 1640. N. S. at the advanced age 
of 87. Rel. 58, Prof. 37. See F. More, pp. 
349-52. 

Hooker, David, I think diedatFlorence. 

•Hordes, Thomas, of Lancashire, was 
born in 1600, admitted at the age of 32. 
This lay-brother, was at Liege in 1665, 
after which time I lose further traces of him. 

HoHE, George, diedat Watten 1 January, 
1639. 

Hornby, Robert, was admitted in 1668 : 
and died in 1695. set. 

Horne, Thomas, of Oxford: died at 
Watten 14 February, 1652 set. 50. Rel. 1 1 . 



Horne, William, born as I am told ia 
Russia. On his birth day, set. 17,7 Sep- 
tember, 1753, he entered the Novitiate of 
Watten. In 1764, 1 meet with him as Prefect 
of the College at Bruges. Seven years later 
I find him on the English Mission, I think 
at Sarnefield, nearWeobly,in Herefordshire. 
On the death of the Hon. and Rev. John 
Butler, Lord Cahir, he succeeded in 1786 to 
the incumbency of Hereford. About three 
years later he removed his residence from 
Bye Street to Bread Street. This Rev. 
Father, whilst.actually on a visit at Rother- 
was, the seat of Mr. Bodenhara, in that 
neighbourhood, was found dead in his 
chamber 13 November, 1799. His remains 
were deposited near F.Thomas Hildeyard, 
before mentioned, with this inscription on 
his grave stone. 

R. I. P. 
Guil. Horne 
Obiit. 1799 
matis 63. 
HosKiNS, Anthony, of Herefordshire ; 
joined the Society in Spain. On coming to 
the English Mission, F, Gerard provided 
him with a situation in a Family of rank, 
where the lady was a Catholic, and the hus- 
band a well-disposed Protestant. " ILle 
itaqve ibi colloculus multa bona fecit un- 
dequaque." la 1609 he was admitted at 
London to the Profession of the Four Vows. 
Retiring to Spain he died at Valladolid 10 
September, 1615, set. 47. Under the signa- 
ture H, I. he published " A Briefe and 
Clear Declaration of Sundry Pointes ab' 
solutely dislyked in the lately enacted 
Oath qf Allegiance proposed to the Catho- 
likes of England ; togeather with a Reca^ 
pitulation of the whole worke, newly writ- 
ten by a learned Divine, concerning the 
same subject." 12mo 1611. pp. 56. He 
translated fromLalin into Englisti '■'Thoma& 
a Kempis' following rf Christ," under the 
initials of F. B. and the abridgment of 
Christian Perfection." 1612. Also the 
Apologies of Henry 1 V and Lewis Xni„ 
in favour of the Society at Paris." 4to, 
1612. F, Southwell slates that all these 
books were printed at St. Oraer. 

HosKiNS, Raphael, born in Maryland, 
19 July, 1729 : began his Noviceship 1749 : 
was Professed in 1767 : died at Brough 15 
April, 1794. He was the writer of the Latin 
Manuscript Life of brother Wm. Couciie^ 
also of an English Manuscript, intitled 
" Short account of the expulsion of the 
Jesuits out of St: Omer's'' 4to. 49 pp. 
He wrote Latin better than English; 

*Hothersall, Thomas, admitted 20 
June, 1668 : died in Maryland in 1698, aet. 
57. 

Hothersall, AVilliam, born 19 July, 
1725: admitted in 1744, Prof. 2 February. 
1762: was appointed Rector of the English 
College at Rome in 1766, and continued in 
office until the suppression of the Order 17 
August, 177S. The good old man died at 
Oxford, 25 August, 1803. 



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Houghton , H enRy, born 1710 : adinilied 
when in Deacon's Orders 28 June, 1733: 
was Professed in 1744 : died at West 
Grinsted, Sussex, 20 July, 1 750. He some- 
times passed by the name of Moore. 

Houseman, Christopheh, born 21 Sep- 
tember, 1726; admitted in 1744 ; ordained 
Priest at Liege in 1752 ; died at Ghent 15 
October, 1769. Another account fixes his 
birth to 7 March, 1728. He is often called 
Joseph Layton. 

Howard, Edward, (The real name was 
Holme,) born in Lancashire 29 December, 
1740 ; at the age of 19 joined^ the Society ; 
came to the Mission in August, 1767 ; and 
was sent to Mosely to replace the Apostate 
Charles Billinge; af'er some time was re- 
moved to Stapehill, Dorset, but was finally 
settled (on the Rev. Richard Barrow's de- 
parture for Wigan in 1786) at Pontefract, 
where he died 5 December, 1809. 

Howard, Francis, elder brother of 
Edward, bom in May, 1724 ; admitted at the 
age of 16, and Professed in 1759, For a 
short time was employed at Lullworth, and 
for some years at Richmond : finally sta- 
tioned at Alnwick, and died there 9 March 
1802. 

Howard, John, uncle to the above ; born 
26 October, 1718: admitted in 1737, prof. 
2 Feb. 1755, and after distinguishing him- 
self by his prudence and talents, was chosen 
vector of Liege College, 29 February, 1768, 
and witnessed its suppression whilst yet in 
office. At the establishment of the Aca- 
demy at Liege F. Howard was named its 
President. Unfortunately he was too much 
divided between the English Nuns in thalCity 
and his own immediate subjects to be so 
practically and efficiently useful, as he might 
otherwise have been ; but sliil he retained 
office until his death, 16 October, 1783. 

Howard, John, admitted 7 September, 
1679, set. 20. 

Another of this name and great nephew 
to the above-mentioned President, was son of 
Ralph (Holme") and Mary (Yates) born in 
Lancashire, 18 November, 1764— studied at 
Liege, served Irohamfrora 10 July, 1797, to 
12 JNlay, 1823. After lending assistance to 
some otner places, he seated himself at Salis- 
bury, but died a few months after, viz. 8 
July, 1826, and was buried there, in St. 
Martin's Cemetery 

Howard, James, died at Valladolid. 

Howard, William, of London, born in 
1599. 1 collect from the Proviiicial return 
of 1655, that he had then passed 36 years in 
the Society, and 25 on the Mission, and had 
been professed 22 April, 1635. 1 think he 
died in England, 19 January, 1683. 

Howard, William, born 25 March, 
1687, admitted 12 November, 1713. Prof. 
2 February, 1726. After a long Missionary 
career in Yorkshire, he retreated to Watlen, 
where he died, 6 August, 1770, set. 83, 

Howe, Joseph, who often passed by the 

2 £ 



name of Pendrill, born 19 June, 1711, ad- 
mitted in 1729, Prof, 2 February 1747, died 
at tidrsley, Northumberland, where he had 
re- ided foi half a C entury 2 May, 1792. 

iJoWLETT, John, born in Rutlandshire, 
had studied at Oxford, joined the Order 
at Louvain, in 1571, and had the honor 
of having Leonard Lessius for his fellow 
Novice.' Like that illustrious man, he be- 
came not merely a credit, but a Luminary 
of the Society. The Netherlands, Germany, 
and Poland, admired his erudition, and were 
edified with his religious virtues. He died 
at Wilna, 17 September, 1589, Bet. 42. See 
More, p. 18. Southwell p 461. He per- 
mitted F. Persons to publish, under his 
name, the reasons for not attending the l^ro- 
testant Church, which provoked the bile of 
the coarse and acrimonious Fulke. 

Hubbard, William, born 18 September, 
1692, admitted 14 August, 1717. 

Hubert, William, of Wales, This young 
Priest died at Watten 4 August, 1662, set, 
28, Soc, 8. 

HuDD, John, of Durham. During the 
civil wars he was taken in his hidmg place 
near Lincoln, with all the Altar apparatus, 
and was paraded in derision through the 
streets of that City, and then consigned to 
its jail. Released in the sequel by the 
Royal Party, the good and patient old man 
died at last of the Palsy, 4 August, 1649, 
aei. 78, Soc. 27, 

HoDDLESTON, JoHN, SOD 1 take it of Sir 
Edmund Huddleston, of Sawston, Knight, 
by his wife Dorothy ( Beconsall) entered 
an alumnus of the English College, Rome, 
1617, 3 years later joined the Society. 

PluDsoN, Thomas, died in England, in 
1646. 

Hughes, John, born in London, 1 June, 
1754 : reached the College at Bruges 12 
September, 17C4, entered the Novitiate, 
7 September, 1770, and soon after taking 
his simple Vows, was involved in the de- 
struction of the Order. He was promoted 
to Priesthood 13 June, 177a. lo the Aca- 
demy of Liege he rendered most valuable 
services, as Prefect and Guest-master, and 
at the emigration to Stonyhurst he made 
himself, if any thing, even more useful, by 
his additional and very skilful superinten- 
dance of the Infirmary. For several years 
he was Pastor of the large Congregation at 
Stonyhurst, which, under his auspices, 
wonderfully increased and multiplied. Orj 
the retirement ofF. N. Sewall from the 
Portico Mission, F. Hughes became his 
successor at Michaelmas 1808, and was 
also named Sector of his brethren in Lan-- 
cashire. The amenity and cheerful cordi- 
ality of his disposition, his unremitting at- 
tention lo the comforts of the sick and the 
poor, his active zeal and intebigence in 
business, and his generous hospitality, must 
ever endear his memory to all that knew him. 
It should never be forgotten, that to him are 
Ills brethren mainly indebted for the new 



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Chapel atWigan. F. Hughes made his re- 
ligious Profession of the Four Vows, I Jan- 
uary, 1824-. His lamp of light quietly, 
went out at Portico, 6 July, 182S : and his 
honoured remains were burier in his own 
Chapel, with the follo\Ting epitaph ; — 
A. M. D. G. 
Sacred to the Memory of the 
Rev. John Hughes, 
Who died on the 6th of July, 18S!8, aged 74. 
He was the " Good Pastor." — Johnx. 
His last prayer to his flock was , 
" Have pity on me, at least you ray Friends; 
Have piiy on me, and do not put off 
The remembrance of me before the 
Altar of ray merciful Judge." 
R. I, P. 

HuMBERSTov, (alias Hall) Henry. — 
All that I can learn of him is, that he was 
declared Provincial 19 December, 1697, and 
that at the expiration of his office in 170 1 , 
was P„ector of St. Omer till 1705. He died 
at Watten, 13 December, 1708. We have 
seen his sermon preached at Worcester 18 
April, 1686, being the Second Sunday after 
Easter. 4to. London, 1686. pp. 22. 

HuMPHRYS, John, of Wales ; died in 
England 14 March, 1676, set. 66. Rel. 37. 

Hunt, Gilbert, died SI March, 1647. 

Hunt, John, admitted 7Septeraber, 1693, 
aged 18: ordained Priest in 1703. 

Hunt, Simon. — F. Moore, p 24, informs 
us that lie joined the Society 27 April, 1578, 
and whilst Penitentiary at Rome, died 11 
June, 1585. 

Hunt, Thomas, born in Rutlandshire, 
it seems that he had attached himself to the 
Society about 28 years before his death, 
which by F. More's account, p. 272, hap- 
pened 10 February, 1602. He had walked 
with simplicity before God, and brought 
forth abundance of fruit. 

Hunter, Anthony, (alias Jawzes Smith) 
of Yorkshire. Whilst serving the Mission 
in the North of England, during the civil 
wars, he was arrested and conveyed to lion- 
don. At his discharge, this genuine son 
of the Society, lesuraed his pastoral duties 
with fresh zeal and spirit; but was apprehen- 
ped again during the delirium occasioned by 
Oates's Plot, arraigned in London 28 Feb- 
ruary, 1680, and the next day sentenced to 
death. Whilst the Prisoners were in Court 
hes ucceeded in hearing the Confessions of 
two Criminals. The good old man was 
permitted to die in jail 3 February, 1684, 
set. 78o Rel. 35. " Vir inpaucis plus et 
invicti roboris, animique constantid plane 
singularis." 

*HuNTER, Francis, died at Watten, 5 
September, 1693. 

Hunter, George, born in Northumber- 
land 25 July, 1713 : admitted in 1730: 
Professed eighteen years later : died in 
Maryland 1 August, 1779, ofwhich residence 
he was the last Superior, at the suppression 
of the Order. I find him holding that 
office in 1758, over 16 other Priests in 
North America 



Hunter, Thomas^ We meet with|ttvo of 
this name. The 1st admitted 7 Sftptember, 
1384: was professor of Logic at Liegre in 
1701, and of Philosophy in 1704. Whilst 
Chaplain to the Shireburns at Stonyhurst, 
he "wrote an answer to the Rev. Charles 
Dodd's* scurrilous libel, called" The Se- 
cret Policy of the Jesuits, or his Provin- 
cial Letters:' The M, S. of the Rev. F. in 
55 4to pp. is at Stonyhurst. F. Hunter 
sent to the press " A modest Defence of 
the Clergy and Religious, in a Discourse 
directed to R. C, Chaplain of an English 
Regiment, about his history of Douay 
Colleger 8vo. A. D. 1714, pp. 143. He 
was unquestionably a man ofpowerfulmind, 
remarkable industry, and extensive informa- 
tion : he died 21 February, 1725, set. 59. 

'S'His real name was Tootelt — was born in Lanca- 
shire, and probably was related to the grand Vicar 
of that name, mentioned in Bishop Withara's Will, 
dated 21 November. 1723 For the greater part of 
his Missionary' career, Mr. Dodd was stationed at 
Harvington Hall, in the County of Worcestershire, 
and devoted his leisure and industry to the col- 
lecting of materials for the elucidation of Catholic 
Doctrines, and of F:nglish Church History. The 
learned writer died 27 February, 1742—3^ aet 70: 
and was buried at Chaddesley Corbett. See page 
121. Vol. IV. Catholicon. 

We are far, very far from approving that severe 
criticism and vagae censure, pronounced by the 
Editors o^Vae Quarterly Review, ^ags IQQ, Vol.57, 
viz. ■' Neale's History of the Puritans, is the most 
dishonest book in our language, Dodd's Roman 
Catholic Church History not excepted;"' yet his 
fondest admirers must confess, that if the History 
has many merits, it has also very prominent 
defects— that its usefulness is marred by unbe- 
coming spleen and feverish excitement against 
Religious Orders, approved of by the Holy See. — 
that several of his statements stand refuted and con- 
demned in the very authorities which he enumerates 
in the preface to the 1st Volume of his History — that 
his stile is unequal — often verbose, harsh, and pe- 
dantic—that the work abounds with repetition— that 
some of his Records are little more than lumber — ■ 
that Chronology and lucid Classification are in- 
sufficiently attended to. With regret, we remark^ 
that this ponderous compilation is calculated to per- 
petuate prejudices, little jealousies, and party feel- 
ings. Every writer, who makes profession of truth, 
and piety, will be delicately cautious in point of 
Charity and Forbearance : and all Priests, especial- 
ly, should act towards each other, as the apostles did 
to Paul and Barnabas , by giving "the right hand 
of fellowship" Gal. 11,9- Disunion is irreconcileable 
with the spirit of that Gospel which they preach. 

We have been delighted to meet with the follow- 
ing attestation in tlie hand-writing of the Rev. 
James Brown, of Mawley, who attended Dodd 
during his last sickness ; — 

"March 1. 1742 3. 

"We, hereunto subscribing, do attest that Mr. 
Charles Dodd. late of Harvington, deceased, being 
on his death-bed, desired to declare his charitable 
dispositions to all mankind, and to the Society of 
Jesus in particular, as suspected to be prejudiced in 
their regard ; to demonstrate the contrary, he volun- 
tarily and freely gave full assent and consent to the 
following charitable profession : viz. ' As you desire 
to die in charity with all mankind, and particularly 
with the Society of Jesus ; if you have done them 
any wrong in writing or otherwise, do you desire 
pardon and forgiveness, as you forgive them for any, 
either supposed or received, injury ?' Whereunta 
he cordially replied, / do with all my heart, and 
that as worded and proposed.' 

" Byrne, James Brown." 

" In the presence of Tho. Berkeley." 



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The 2nd was born in Northutnbetiand, 
6 June, 1718: admitted in 1735. Pro- 
fessed 2 February, 1753: was declared 
Rector of St. jNlichael's Residence in Au- 
gust, 1763:diedat Ghent SOJanuary, 1773. 

Hunter, William. — I meet with two 
also of this narre. The elder died in 
Maryland 15 August, 1723. 

The junior was admitted 7 September of 
the year the other had died: was Professed 
20 years later, and died 3 December, 1761. 
His name was Weldoti. 

*HuRDis, Thomas. — This Lancashire 
lay-brother died at Liege, 9 January, 1663, 
set. 51. Rel. 18. 

HussEY, James, born 21 April, 1765: 
educated at Liege, and taught Humanities 
there and at Stonyhurst. On 21 Novem- 
ber, 1797, he reached the Shepton Mallelt 
Mission, laid the foundation of the new 
Chapel, 15 October, 1801, which was opened 
for public worship 29 April, 1804. Dy- 
ing 30 August, 1810, lie was buried on the 
S. side of Shepton Mallett Churchyard. 

*HussEY Lrwis. — This scholastic enter- 
ed the Novitiate 21 December, 1729; he 
was certainly of Dorsetshire, and I suspect 
of the family settled at Marnhull. He died 
at Liege 17 January, 1733, aet. 22. 

Hyde, Francis, (alias Grimsditch. ) 
Admitted in 1670, was many years Mission- 
aryand Hector in the BishoprickofDurhara, 
ryhere I think he died 23 November, 1714. 
aged 66. In 1710, he is described as Su- 
perior P. Franciscus Hyde egregi^ in 
omnibus se gessit." An. Juit. 

Hyde, Richard, joined the Society 16 
September, 1706 : was Professed 2. Feb- 
ruary, 1724; was Rector of St. Omer's 
College from 1728 (13 May,) until 11 
August, 1731, and again re-appoin(ed to 
that superiority 31 July, 1742. He died in 
oflRce 27 P'ebruary. 1744, aet. 59. 

♦Jacquemix, Martin, died in London 7 
February, 1754, set. 52. Soc. 28. 

Jacobson, William, actually born in 
Belgium 15 October, 1692, entered the 
Order in 1714. Watten was his usual place 
of residence, and there he finished his pious 
course 1 1 June, 1764. 

Jackson, Francis, (alias Smithson,) of 
Yorkshire : commencedhis noviceship at St, 
John's, Louvain, 24 Dec. 1608. He died in 
the English Mission 16 April, 1645, at. 
68, 

Jackson, John, ( who often passed by 
the name of Johnston,) at the age of 21 en- 
rolled himself among the children of St. 
Ignatius. This Professed Father, whilst 
serving the' Mission of Croston in Lanca- 
shire, was recalled to Liege, to be Rector of 
the English College, early in 1752; but died 
at Spa, 19 June ths same year. 

Jackson, Thomas, was admitted in Ger- 
many, A. D. 1596, ast, 32. Imeet with him 
in the English Mission thirteenjyears later, 
and then he vanishes from my view. 

Jameson, Philip James, (vereSachmor- 



ter,) was born at Dunkirk 8 November, 
1720: entered the English Province at the 
age of 18. He closed his long life by an 
edifying death at Hammersmith, 6 Septem- 
ber, 1795. 

*Janion, George. This lay -brother 
was admitted in 1668 : he died in England, 
12 May, 1698, aet. 52. 

*Janion, William, probably younger 
brother of the above, joined the Order 14 
A ugust, 1672, set. 20. 

*Jansens, James, admitted 23 April, 
1727: died at Ghent 5 May, 1771, set. 72. 

Ibbotson, William, born near Skipton, 
4 December, 1800; began his Noviceship 
atHodder 7 September, 1818. This very 
interesting Ecclesiastic was sent lo the 
Wigan IVlission, and soon acquired the public 
esteem by his dismterested zeal and charily. 
Naturally of a robust constitution, his flock 
calculated on retaining his valuable services 
for many years to come; but heaven had 
other designs upon him. Attacked with ill- 
ness, he sunk into a'distressing state of de- 
bility. The best medical advice and fre- 
quent change of air, produced no perceptible 
benefit, and on Tuesday evening 4 March, 
1834, this promising young man meekly re- 
signed his soul into the hands ot God, at 
the seminary, near Stonyhurst. 

Jeffrys, Thomas. — All that I can glean 
of this Father is, that he died in England 
18 May, 1654. 

*Jemmet, Francis, born 20 November, 
1695 : died at Ghent 29 June, 1749, Rel.26v 

Jenison, Augustine, born at Lower 
Walworth,* near Darlington, in the County 
of Durham, 20 April, 1735: at the age of 
20 placed himself among the Novices at 
Watten. Soon after his promotion to priest- 
hood, he was sent to EUingham, 1763, and 
there, as I have heard from the best author- 
ity, his conduct was not void of suspicion. 
Removed to Wardour, where I find him in 
the early part of 1771, his career was edi- 
fying for a time ; but neglecting the exer- 
cises of mental prayer, self-denial, humility 
and vigilance, he yielded to the secret pasion , 
suffered the shipwreck of faith, and filled the 
congregation of Wardour, and the friends 
of religion, with consternation and horror, 
by his open apostacy in Lower Donhead 
Church, late in October, 1772. Towards his 
noble patron, Henry, the 8th Lord Arun- 
dell, his behaviour was marked by the foul- 
est ingratitude and falsehood. Threater.ed 
with a prosecution of Scandalum Magna- 
he hurried to Scotland, where bigotry 
received him with open arms: for a time he 
settled at Aberdeen, where he was prodig- 
iously admired and followed as a preacher. 
But at length the poor sinner, by a special 
mercy of God, was brought, in his very 
pulpit, to a sense of duty and repentance. 

• N.B One of the family, Comte de Jenison Wal- 
worth, settled at Munich : whose son was recently 
Ambassador for Bavaria at Paris, and actually re- 
presents his Court at St. Petersburgh. 



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The Right Rev. Dr. Geddes, a man accord- 
ing to God s own heart, gave this prodigal 
chi.'d the tenderest recepiion, and had the 
consolation of witnessing his retirement to 
St. Oraer's College in December, 1784, 
where nine years later, viz. in December, 
1793, he was called by the God of penitents, 
to receive, as we hope, the reward of un- 
feigned contrition. 

The immortal Dr. Milner, in his last pas* 
toral letter for Lent, dated Wolverhampton, 
1 February, 1»26, makes the following 
mention of this Penitent Apostate. "After 
his scandalous fall, he obtained an opulent 
benefice near Edinburgh, with other comforts 
of life, as they are called ; but felt himself so 
miserable in his conscience, that he suffered 
a hell upon earth, to use his own expres- 
sion in a letter which passed through my 
hands, to the person who had been the oc- 
casion of his apostacy. The conclusion of 
his story was, that he privately withdrew 
himself from his situation, first to London, 
and thence to the continent; where he pas- 
sed the remainder of his life in poverty and 
penance." 

Jenison, James, younger brother of Au- 
gusline; (Q. Was not their Mother a 
Sanford ?) but entered theNovitiate with him. 
After being chaplain to the Porter family, 
and serving a variety of places, he died at 
Bath 22 January, 1799, set. 62. 

Jenison, John. — At the end of Rhetoric, 
Mr. Brent, liis master, escorted him and five 
others to Watten,7 September, 1745. Four- 
teen years later he was stationed at Wardour 
as Successor to F. Robt. Constable, and was 
admitted to his Religious Profession at the 
neighbouringMission ofBonhara, 2 Febl 763. 
Within nine years after his arrival at War- 
dour, he removed to Preston, as successor to 
F.Joseph Smith, but early in 1775, he ab- 
ruptly decamped for the Continent. Bril- 
liant as a classic scholar, but most restless 
and eccentric as a Priest, he outlived his in- 
tellects, and died in an asylum at Liege, 
27 December, 1792, set. 64. He pub- 
lished some Latin Poetry, as his frieudand 
colleague at Preston, the late F.N . Sewell, 
informed me. 

Jenison, Michel, entered the Order in 
1675 ; for a considerable time was Chaplain 
to the Webbs, at Canford, in Dorset. Re- 
tiring to Watten, the venerable man closed 
his mortal career 17 November, 1735, set. 
80. Rel. 60. Prof. 42. 

Jenison, Ralph, is mentioned in the An- 
nual Letters of 1710, as then living in the 
Bishoprick of Durham, as illustrious for his 
most laborious Mission during the last 40 
years ; and though he was 75 years of age, 
still performed all his journies on foot. 

Q. Is he not the same person as Ralph 
Frevill ? 

Jenison, Robert, (alias Frcvz'We.) He is 
slightly referred to by F. More, p. 425, 
Hist., but we collect from F. Southwell, p. 
724, Bibliothecd, that he was born in the 



County of Durham, A.D. 1590— that he re- 
nounced a considerable patrimony to embrace 
the state of Religious poverty in the Society 
of Jesus — that he was duly promoted to the 
rank of a Professed Father — was Rector of 
the house of Probation at Ghent — and du- 
ring a very eventful and critical period of 30 
years, he zealously laboured in the English 
vineyard. Though a Martyr to the stone, 
which ultimately occasioned his death, he 
was uniformly the model of patience and 
resignation. He died 10 October, 1656. 
He left to posterity. 

" A Paire of kSpectacles for Sir Hum- 
phrey Linde, to see his way icilhalL ; 
or an Answeare to his book called ' Via 
Tuta,' a safe way, wherein the booke is 
shewed to be a Labyrinthe of Error, and 
the Author a blind Guide." By J. R» 
Permissu Superiorum. 8vo. 1631, pp. 530. 
Rouen. 

Mr. Dodd, p. 414, Vol. 2, Church Hist, 
attributes to him two other books printed 
in 1612-1613. 

1. •* The overthrow of Protestant Pul- 
pit Babels,'' — and 2. " Purgatory's Tri- 
umph over Hell;" but F. Nath. South- 
well was ignorant of this ; and I know not 
how to reconcile the dates. Certainly F. 
Jenison was not admitted into the Society 
till four or five years after the supposed ap- 
pearance of these works. 

Jenison, Thomas, born in the County 
of Durham: educated in heresy, the sight 
of a neat Catholic oratory, first led him to 
entertain respect for Catholic Worship, and 
then an eagerness to be acquainted with our 
religious tenets. This docility of dispo- 
sition was quickly rewarded with the gift 
of Faith, and after some time, with a vo- 
cation to the state of Religion. By dili- 
gent application to study, and above all, by 
rooting and founding himself in charity, he 
prepared himself for the life of an apostolic 
missionary. Scarcely had he commenced 
his career as Chaplain to Sir Philip 
Tyrrhwit, in Lincolnshire, when he was 
apprehended as an accomplice in Oates' 
Plot and lodged in a loathsome cell at N ew - 
gate. At the end of a twelvemonth, his 
constitution sunk under the severity 
of his close confinement, and he died 
27 September, 1679, set. 36. Rel. 16. In p. 
104 of the " Remonstrance of Piety and 
Innocence,'' (12mo. London, 16S3, pp. 190) 
is preserved an indiff'erent Chronogram sup- 
posed to be a prediction that the innocence 
of the victims of Oates' Perjury would be 
manifested in the year, 1686. It was found 
in the Father's cell at Newgate. 

tbIstItIa Vestba VketetVr In gaVDIUM. 
aLLbLVIa. 

■yoVB SORROW shaL be MaDb Vekt IoyfVLL 
Vnto yoV. 

F. Jenison's brother was one of the vile 
perjurers on Lord Stafford's trial.* 

* This innocent Peer was beheaded on Tower 
Hill, December 29, 1680, Iset, 68. 



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JenisoiV, William. — Two of this name 
are mentioned in the Necrology, and both 
died in England; one, 9 September, 1683: 
the other 15 December, 1685 It is clear 
that one was admitted 7 Dec. 1675, st. 23. 

Jenkins, Augustus, born in Maryland 
1 2 January, 1747, entered the Order in 1766 : 
after finishing Theology at Liege, and re^ 
ceiving Holy Orders, he returned to his na- 
tive Country, and proved eminent for zeal 
and success in his Ministerial career. 1 
find by a letter that at Easter, 1787, he had 
no less than 1040 Communicants. This good 
man rested from his labours 2 Feb. 1800. 

* Jenkins, John, a Temporal Coadjutor, 
uho died at Liege, 12 May, 1721, jet, 51. 
Rel. 20. 

Jenkins, Peter, Lorn at Sutton near 
Guildford, 21 September, 1735; joined tha 
Order in 1753; made his religious Profession 
2 February, 1771. During his long Mis- 
sionary life, he had been successively station- 
ed at Water-perry, Holt,Irnham, Coldhara, 
Bury St. Edmunds, and Saxis. The vener- 
atlo man was at last visited with blinduass; 
but like another Tobias, knew v^ell how to 
improve this trial to his spiritual profit and 
the edification of others. Dying suddenly 
atBury St. Edmunds, 14 July, 1818, set. 83, 
he was buried near its chapel with the fol- 
lowing Epitaph. 

D. 0. M. 

Reverendus Petrus Jenkins, 
Defunctus Pridie Id)ts Julii 
MDCCCXVIH. 



Two original unpublished Letters of Lord Vis- 
count Stafford (of which these are copies) are 
preserved in Spetisbury Convent. Dorset, and will 
interest our Readers. They were addressed to his 
daughter, Ursula, a Religious of that community in 
t!aeir former House at Louvain, where sLe was pro- 
fessed 22 Sept. 1664, Ob. 14 Sept. 1720. 

From the Tower, July 21. 1679. 

Good Daughter, 

I know the misfortune that I am in is a 
greate griefe unto you, but I jiray give yourselfe 
this assurance that it is come uppon raee by mis- 
fortune and not by any faulte of myne. I 'being 
totally innocent ofwhat I am so unjustly accused of 
as I doute not but to m ake appeare by the Grace of 
God. In the meane time and always I doe most 
willingly and cherefully submitt to His Holy Will, 
beseeching Him most humbly to grante me grace to 
make that good use that I ought to doe, I am ever. 

Your most affectionate Father. 

\V. 

My most humble service to all your good 
Company, this bearer Nicola can tell you particu- 
laf ly of our healths. 
Indorsed. 

For Sister Ursula, 

Lovaine; 

Good Daughter, 

J know you wi'l beare what happens 
flnto mee with Patience and resignation I thank 
God that I know myselfe in every kind innocente 
and that 1 have conlidence in God's merceys, and 
doute not but through the Mercy and Passion of our 
Saviour to obtaine Everlasting happynesse. I pray 
God blesse you , I am. 

Your affectionate Fahter 
Indorsed WILLIAM 
For my Daughter Ursula. 

2r 



R. 1. P. 

" Qua nescUis hora.'' 
F. Jenkins left the following Treatises : 

1. ""Sunday Evening Entertainments." 
12mo. London, 1779, pp. 172. 

2. " The Doctrine of Auricular Con- 
fession." l2mo. London, 1783, pp. 203. 

3. " A Commentary on the 41st and 
4>2ud Psalms." 1799. 

4:. '^Cursory observations on the Di- 
vine Authority of the Catholic Church, 
and the assumed authority of Sectaries 
in interpreting the Bible, addressed to a 
Country congregation.^' 8vo. Bury St. 
Edmunds, ISOi. pp. 54. 

Jennings, Richard, died in England, 
October, 1645. 

Jermingham, Fhancis, uncle and nephew 

1 believe. The former was admitted 26 Sep- 
tember, 1707, set. 19. Twenty years later I 
find him residing at Cossey Hall, near Nor- 
wich; but he died in London 30 November, 
1739, set. 51. 

The latter was born 4 July. 1721, ia Lon- 
don: entered as a Novice at Watten 7 Sep- 
tember, 1738, after studying Humanities at 
St. Qmer's College under F . Neal : died at 
Rome 14 June. 1752. 

N. B. Charles Jerningham, at the end of 
Rhetoric, entered the Noviceship, 7 Septem- 
ber. 1741 ; but left it for St. Omer eight days 
later. — What became of him ? 

*Jeune le Joseph. — This pious lay- 
brother died at St. Omer, 31 January, 
1746, set. 64, Rel. 35. 

*Imbekt, John, admitted 30 April, 1700 : 
died at Liege 24 April, 1724, set. 54. 

Ingleby, AuGUSTiNK, ol a good family 
In Yorkshire: after 26 years of active labour 
in tlie vineyard, he died in England 30 May, 
1657, set. 55. Rel. 33. 

Ingleby, Edward ; all that I can glean 
of him is, that his death occurred in London 

2 January, 1699. 

Ingleby, Peter, born 17 July, 1691 : at 
the age of 21 enlisted under the standard of 
St. Ignatius., He was certainly employed 
in the Oxfordshire Mission for some time ; 
but I believe finished his course in Lanca- 
shire, 13 June, 1741, N.S. 

Ingleby, Thomas, admitted 7 Septem- 
ber, 1703, and at the usual period promoted 
to the rank of a Professed Father. Most 
certainly he was Cliaplain at Lullwcrth 
Castle for some time ; but retired from that 
situation about the year, 1728, and died at 
Paris 12 Nov. the following yeai , aged 45. 

Johnson. Joh.v, died at St.Omei, 22 No- 
vember, 1614. 

Johnson, Joseph, born in England, 29 
November, 1737 : at the ageof 21 joined the 
Order. For a very long pei iod this worthy 
man vris employed in the Derbyshire Mis- 
sion : and died at Spinkhill, 14 Feb. 1817. 

Johnson, Kobert, born at Liverpool 2 
July, 1746: when 18 years of age, he placed 
himself among the Novices at Ghent. His first 
Mission was at Scarisbrick, in his native 
County : thence he removed to Lydiate, which 



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he served within a short period of his death. 
At the restoration ofthe Society, he shewed 
thai he had retained and cherished the gen- 
uine spirit of liis Order, by liis holy impa- 
tleoce to renew his engagements ia it. He 
died in his retirement at Lowe house, near 
St. Helens, 20 November, 1S23. 

JoHNsov, Robert, born at Cobridge 
Co. Stafford, 1 November, 1893: admitted a 
Novice at Rome 2 Nov. 1821 : ordained 
Priest at Arapleforth by Dr. Briggs, 12 Ja)y 
183J): and within three vi'eeks, viz 1 Au- 
gust, was placed at Brough Hall, vice F. 
Dilvvorth. He was admitted to the profes- 
sion ofthe 4) Vows 15 August, 1839. In 
September A'as sent to Norwich; but left 
17 May, 1842, for Calcutta,wh8re he arrived 
30 October the same year, 

Jones, Henry, died at Liege, 12 May, 
J701. 

Jones, Joks. The Senior entered the So' 
ciety in 1709, became a Professed Father in 
1727, and died in the Yorkshire Mission, 
16 May, 1748, aet. 60. 

The Junior, born in INIonmouthshire, 7 
July, 1721, and joined the Novic=^sin 1741. 
This Professed Faiher died in London, 31 
May, 1803. He published a Treatise, 
quaintly entitled Senlimental and Prac- 
tical Theology'' ^vo, London, 1777, pp. 235 
It is a translation from the French of 
Chevalier de undertaken at Ibe re- 
quest of Christina Lady Arundell, to whom 
it is dedicated. 

Jones, James, died in England, 19 May, 
1636. 

Jones, Ignatius, admitted 9 October, 
1711, set. 25: was living ai Blandecque, near 
St. Oraer, in 1727: after which time he va- 
nishes from my search. 

* Jones, Peter. This good Lay-brother 
accompanied F. Silisdon from Flanders to 
Home, where they arrived 10 November, 
16-42. Ill the English College there he disd 
most piously, 30 October, 1625, and his re- 
mains were conveyed to the Roman College 
for interment. 

Jones, Robert, of Sht<^pshire ; united 
himself to the Society at Rome, in 1582, and 
made his religious Profession 21 years later. 
In 1609, he succeeded F. Richard Holtbey, 
as Superior of his brethren in the English 
Mission; but fond of retirement and a con- 
templative life, he left the administraiion 
of affairs priacipally to F. Richard Blount. 
That he was an enoinent spiritualist must be 
acknowledged by all who have studied his 
circular letter, pp. 366-374, in F. More's 
History. In a letter to the General Aqua- 
viva, dated London, 3 November, 1613, after 
describing the difficulties anil miseries of 
this country, he recommends that none be 
appointed to the Mission, but men sober, 
discreet, mortified, humble, and willing to 
endure labour and privations. 

F. Jones died in 1615, " non multum 
quinqnagenario major. 

♦Jones, William, died at Ronae28 Feb- 
ruary, 1758; set. 34, Rel. 6. 



JoRis, John Henry, sometimes called 
George. For many years this Belgian was 
Director to the English Theresian Nuns at 
Hoogstraet, and emigrated with them in 
July, 1794. He continued with them until 
his pious death, at Great Canford, in Dor- 
setshire, 9 July, 17C6. From the Parish 
Registry I collect that he was buried 12 July. 

* Joseph, John, died at Liege in Janu- 
ary, 1693. 

Jossaer, Bernard, see Green, Bernard. 

JossAER, Michael, born at Dunkirk : en- 
tered the English Province 23 May, 1727. 
In the fragment of a Journal once kept at 
Watten, I lead, " October 15 1737.— F. 
Michael Jossaert from St. Oraer, this morn- 
ing to be Missioner here." He died at 
Watten 14 November, 1759, ael. 50. 

JoY, Matthew, born 3 June, 1742 ; ad- 
mitted in 1761 : died at Eilinghara, much 
and deservedly esteemed and respected, 21 
February, 1798. 

Irelaxd, Alexander, of Lancashire, 
became a me.nber of the Order, in 1640. 

Ireland, Francis. — In 1675 he com- 
menced his Novioeship, set. 19. Twenty nine 
years later I find him actively employed in 
the London Mission. 

Ireland, Lawrence, joined the Order 
in 1663, — pie was a native of Lancashire, 
but I can collect no further particulars. 

♦Ireland, William, of Lincoln. His 
family had severely suifered for their un- 
compromising attachment to their legiii- 
mate sovereign during the Civil Wars ; and 
the Pendrells and GifFords, so instrumental 
in saving Charles II. after the unfortunate 
fight at Worcester, were his near relatives. 
At the age of 19 this pious youth consecra- 
ted himself to God in the Society of Jesus, 
and was a general favorite for his candour, 
docility, industry, and unalterable meekness. 
After serving the poor Clares at Gravelines, 
he was sent to the English Mission in 1677, 
and 28 September the year following was 
apprehended in London with F. John Fen- 
wick, at the explosion of Gates' infernal 
Conspiracy, when the national phrenzy, and 
the atrocity of perjury and bloodthirstiness 
surpassed the records of all ages and peo- 
ples. In jail this blameless Father severely 
suffered from the loathsomeness of the place 
and the enormous weight of his bolts and 
c hains. On 27 December he was arraigned, 
and without a shadow of evidence, and 
without bsing allowed sufficient time to 
produce his witnesses, declared guilty of 
High Treason. The report of his trial, as 
published with the licence of Lord Chief 
Justice Scroggs, is quite sufficient to disgust 
and shock the mind of every lover of equity, 
truth and honour. Like his blessed master 
F. Ireland was led like a sheep to theslaugh- 
teron Friday, 24 .January (O.S.) following, 
Eet. 43. Rel. 24. Prof, 6. A letter of this 
innocent Faiher to his friend F.John Clare, 
concerning his sister, Ivlizabeth Warner, 
may be seen in pp. 291-2 of Lady Warner's 
Life. 



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*JufiERT, John Baptist.— -This worthy 
Lay-brother died at Liege, his native city, 
J5 October, 176S, set. G2. Rel. 41. 

_ Kelly, Thomas, of Hants. The Provin- 
cial return of 1635, reports hira to be then 
50 years old, of which he had spsnt 26 in the 
Order, and that he was professed of the Four 
Vows 6 April, 1645— that he had been Mi- 
nister, Consultor, and Procurator, and that 
for the last sixteen years had been employed 
in the Mission, for the duties of which he 
was singularly qualified. This raeritorious 
Father breathed his last 6 July, 1665. 

Kemp, Chaulks, died at Brussells in 1611. 
F. Robert Bedford, who knew him at Rome, 
extols him for his probity, candour, and 
love of domestic discipline. 

*Kemp, George. — This T.?iy-brolher ac- 
companied F. John Gerard from Lcuvain, 
late in October, i614, to take possession of 
the New house at Liege. His death occur- 
red at St. Omer 22 September, 1638. 

Kemp, Henry, joined the Order 1 July, 
1691 : for several years served the Mission 
of Wooton, in Warwickshire. Retiring 
afterwards to Watten, he surrendered his 
pious soul to God 28 November, 1737, aet. 
65.^ 

Kemper, Herman, actually born in West 
phalia 22 July, 1745 : at the age of 21 com- 
menced his Noviceship at Ghent, and proved 
in the sequel one of the ablest scholars and 
most valuable membeis of the English Pro- 
vince. The academy at Liege and the Col- 
lege at Stohyhurst will testify to his merits, 
as a i\laster, as a Prefect of studies, and a 
Professor of Divinity, On the death of the 
Rev. Richard Barrow, the Pastor of Wi^an, 
in October, 1799, Father Kemper was order- 
ed to supply his place His fame had gone 
before him, and he culHvated this vineyard 
with such successful industry and ability, as 
soon to require a Coadjutor. To the regret 
of his numerous and increasing flock, to 
whom he was endeared by his raeritorious 
services, he was, after some years residence, 
called from Wigan to New Hall Convent, 
Essex, where he finished his course of useful- 
ness, 8 April, 1811. 

Kendal, Thomas, born in Devonshire ; 
enrolled himself in the Society in 1635 ; 
died at Madrid 2 July 1672, at. 60. 

Kennet, Charles, made his Simple 
Vows 8 September, 1683, and the Solemn 
Vpws of a Professed Father 2 Febiuary, 
1699. For some years taught Theology at 
Liege. Hedied Procurator of the Province, 
at Paris, 21 Aprd, 1728, Bet. 68. 

Kensington, Edward, of Lancashire, 
whose real name was Laiihwaile. F More, 
p. 392, Hist., supplies a most interesting 
narrative of the conversion of this young 
Protestant zealot. Hearing that his elder 
and Rev. brother, F. Thomas Laithwaite, 
was a prisoner in Exeter jail, for the Catho- 
lic Faith, in the winter of 1604, he hurried 
down to reclaim hi<n from the errors of 
Popery; and the magistrates witnessing his 



enthusiasm, cheerfully allowed hira free ac- 
cess to his brother. At the end of eight 
days he was satisfied, that he had mistaken 
for the doct ines of the Catholic Church, the 
vile misrepresentations and calumnies of her 
bitterest enemies. The discovery of such 
unjustifiable practices served as a light to 
diiect him through the billows of error, and 
to lift him up on the Rock of Truth. He 
decided to assist no longer at the Protestant 
service; and during the Christmas Holidays 
was reconciled to the Churchof Christ. Im- 
pressed with the grace he had received, he 
was eager, like Paul, to become the instru- 
ment of salvation toothers." After study- 
ing some time in the Seminary of Douay, 
that scliool of learning, piety, and Martyr- 
dom, he repaired to the English College at 
Rome in 1608, and seven years later em- 
braced the Institute of St. Ignatius, In 
several places he cultivated the English 
vineyard with apostolic industry, and at 
length, 24 June, 1643, at. 61. Rel. 27. Prof. 
15, he died in the Devonshire Mission in 
which he had been superior of his brethren, 
" loboriosus Athleta." 

N.B. He had another brotlier a Priest 
in the Society, who died at Valladolid, 
early in the I7th Century; but who is called 
incorrectly in my opinion, Thomas in 
the Necrology. 

Keynes, Alexander, of a Somersetshire 
family, fruitful in members of the ecclesias- 
tical and religious Profession. He entered 
the Novitiate of Watten on the evening II 
November, 1669, as I find by thejournal so 
often quoted. After many years of labour 
in England, the good Father retired to 
Ghent, where he died in peace 7 June, 1713, 
set. 71. 

Keynes, Charles, a man of great 
promise: he had hardly seated himself in 
the Professor of Logic's chair, at Liege, 
when he was prematurely cut off 20 Sep- 
tember, 1673, " in jiore eetatis." 

Keynes, Edward. — The Provincial 
return of 1655, testifies that he was then 
47 years old, of which he had passed 28 in 
the Society — that the date of his Religious 
Profession was the 31&« of May, 1643. 
Full of fervid charity and zeal of souls, he 
sacrificed his life in attending persons at- 
tacked by the plague in London, 27 July, 
or 6 August, 1665. An eulogium of this 
victim of self-devotion in the cause of 
charity, was written by F. Charles Campian. 

Keynes, George. Of the Senior, who 
died at St. Omer late in 1611,1 find men- 
tion in a letter of F. Robert Bedford, dated 
Posna, 9 March, 1612. He is described as 
a pi udent and most virtuous man, and a uni- 
versal favourite. 

The Junior was promoted to holy Orders, 
in 1654, and in the month of December, that 
year, sailed for the China Mission, but died 
in tlie Philippine Islands four years later. 
He had previously published an English 
Translation of the " Marlyrologium Ro~ 



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nianum." A second Edition, much en- 
larged, issued from ths St. Omer's Press in 
1667, 8vo. pp. 376. 

Keynes, John, a man of superior merit: 
born at Corapton Painsford, in Somerset- 
shire: after studying Humanities at St. 
Omer, he proceeded to the College of St. 
Alban, at Valladolid, and whilst a student 
of Philosophy, joined the Society in 1645. 
In the sequel he was directed to teach Phi- 
losophy at Corapostella, and Theology for 
nine years at Valladolid, Salamanca, and 
Pampeluna. Ordered afterwards to Liege, 
to fill the situation of Prefect of tlie higher 
studies, he obtained permission to devote 
himself to the care of the English soldiers in 
the Low Countries, whilst the Plagua was 
raging among them. In this service of he- 
roic charity, he caught the distemper, and 
for the recovery of his health, was sent to 
England. When the British nation was 
frightened out of its propriety, by Oates' 
execrable plot, V. Keynes was actually su- 
perior of his Brethren in London; and al- 
though the Government diligently searched 
for him, he succeeded in effecting his escape 
to the Continent. In 1680 he was made 
Rector of Liege College, and at the expira- 
tion of three years was announced Provin- 
cial—an office which he filled with sin- 
gular ability, prudencejand credit, until he 
resigned it, 22 August, 1689. The vener- 
able man died at Watten, 15 May, 1697, 
set. 73. 

Some of our readers may not be aware, 
that the Savoy Hospital, in London, was 
granted by King James IL, to the English 
Jesuits for a College. On 24 May, 1687, 
Whitsun Eve, the following Fathers moved 
into it, viz. : 

Father John Keynes, the Provincial, 

F. Wm. Mumford, his Socius, 

F. Charles Palmer, 

F. Thomas Green, Minister, 

F. Edward Tidder, Procurator, 

F, John Persal, The King's Preacher^ 

F. Edward Hall and > , 

F. Andrew Pulton } T^Iasters. 

with Three Temporal Coadjutors. 

The next day the chapel was opened Co 
a crowded audience. 

On the Monday after Trinity Sunday, 
the Schools commenced, and about 200 
youths of various religious denominations 
attended ; for the Prospectus had previ- 
ously set forth, that the Greek and Latin 
languages would be taught gratis to all 
comers. In consequence of the increasing 
number of scholars, F. Thomas Parksr 
was called in as a third master ; and in the 
ino:Uh of September, a fourth teacher being 
indispensable, F. Richard Plowden was de- 
puted from St. Omer's College to fill that 
situation. By the munificence of the Royal 
Family, and some of the Catholic Gentry, 
the Savoy Chapel was considerably enlarged 
and suitably embellished. His Majesty 
gave a liberal subscription : his pious Con- 



sort presented two ponderous silver lamps : 
a certain Countess was the donor of four 
very splendid silver candlesticks, besides 
vestments and sacred Ornaments. 

On the Sundays, sermons were delivered 
in the morning and evening : catecliistical 
instructions were publicly given two or 
three times every week. The King was 
graciously pleased to visit the infant Col- 
lege, and was complimented by the pupils 
in the Greek, Latin and English Languages. 

The Fathers had also, in the heart of the 
City of London, a smaller College, consist- 
ing of seven members, and situated near the 
residence of the Bavarian Ambassador. F. 
Charles Pdtre was named its Rector ; and 
it was opened on Lady Day, 1688. To this 
establishment the King was a bountiful 
Macsenas. Its chapel was thronged to ex- 
cess. Many unable to procure inside ac- 
commodation, would hang by the sills of 
the windows in their eagerness to hear the 
preachers, 

F. Keynes, wielded his powerful pen 
against Dr. Stillingfleet, pointing out his 
contradictions and blunders. His contro- 
versy wi^h ihe Doctor, continued with little 
intersuption from 1671 to 1675. He pub- 
lished also in London "J Rational Com- 
pendious Way to convince ivithoul any 
dispute, all persons whatever dissenting 
from the Tine Religion." l2rao. 1674, 
pp, IS*. This was translated into Latin, 
and published at Liege in 1684, and into 
French at St. Oiner's, in 1688. It is well 
known that this polite Scholar was the 
principal compiler of the '■' Florus Anglo 
Davaricus'' 4to. Liege, 1685, pp, 205. 

Keynes, Maurice, entered the Society 
in 1618 : said his first Mass at the Gesu, in 
Rome, 2 December, 1634. After serving 
the Mission in England for nine years, was 
appointed Professor of Philosophy and Mo- 
ral Divinity at Liege. He died however 
in England, 1 February, 1654, set. 61. 

♦Keynes, Maximilian, became a No- 
vice in 1674 : for many years was engaged 
in the cultivation of the English vineyard ; 
but retiring to Watten, there surrendered 
his soul to God, 3 March, 1720, eet. 68. 

*KiDDFR, Chahles, died a Scholastic 
9 April, •1772, 

KiLLicK, William, is said to have died 
in Maryland during the month of August, 
1720. 

KiM3ER, Thomas : admitted in 1706: at 
the usual period was called to take his sta- 
tion among the Professed Fathers : for 
some years was Superior of his Brethren in 
the residence of St. Winefrid : and died at 
Castle Powis, 1 April, 1742, aet. 54. 

King, Thomas.— F. More, p. 35, Hist, 
affirms, that this promising member of the 
Society was sent to England for the re- 
covery of his health ; but sunk under a de« 
cline soon after his return home, in the year 
1565. 

KiKGDON, Abraham, born in London, 



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^8 August, 1716 : at the end of Rhetoric, 
with eight of his companions, entered the 
Novitiate at Watten, in 1737: for some 
years before his death, was enfeebled in 
body and mind ; but very harmless. He 
died at Liege, 7 March, 1782. 

KiNGDON, John, elder brother of Abra- 
ham, and born 29 July, 1716. He made 
his simple Vows when his brother com- 
raenced the Noviceship. Devoting himself 
to the laborious Mission of Maryland, he 
was at length called to receive his recom- 
pence 7 July, 1761, Prof. 8. 

KiNGSLEY, Ignatius George, born in 
1701 : aud at the age of 19 enrolled himself 
amongst the Novices at Watten. This 
professed and venerable Father closed a long 
Missionary career, at the age of 86 : dying 
in London, 5 September, 1787, and was 
buried at St. Pancras, He often passed by 
the name of Clayton, 

KiNGSLEY, Owen Joseph : after his 
serving the Maryland Mission, I meet with 
him in the vicinity of Leicester, Ordered to 
Watten, he died there 2i January, 1739, 
ffit. 42, Rel. 23. 

Kingslev, Thomas. — The elder assumed 
the name of De Bois and Boyse : was 
Chaplain to Lord Tenyham near Rochester, 
when the revolution burst forth. Seized by 
a populace, maddened with political and 
religious fury, he was nearly sacrificed to 
their brutal violence. Fortunately rescued 
at last from their savage grasp, he was es- 
corted to London, and committed to New- 
gate, whence at the end of a twelvemonth, 
he was discharged by Proclamation. He 
died in London. 15 October, 1695, get. 45. 
Rel. 19. 

The Junior was a man of real talent, and 
taught Philosophy and Theology at Liege 
with great credit. His death occurred at 
London, 27 August, (another account says 
(27 Sept.) 1781, set'. 76, Rel. 58, Prof. 40. 

KiNGSLEY, William, born 12 April, 
1696 ; entered the No vitiate in 171 S ; and 
whilst serving the Northumberland Mis- 
sion in 1731, was admitted to the Profes- 
sion of the Four Vows. lie died at 
JKUingham, 12 February, 1734. 

Kinsman, Bernard, died in England, 
3 February, 1668. 

Kinsman, Edward ; for a timo was at 
St. 'John's in Louvain ; and is said to have 
been the Author of a 4lo Vol . ofLivesof the 
Saints-, 

Q. Can this be the same person as F. Ed- 
ward Davison or Dawson ? 

Kinsman, Michael, born in London, A. 
D. 1614, at the age of 17 enlisted under the 
banner of St. Ignatius, and after passing 
llirough various offices of the Englisli Pro- 
vince, died at Liege in a good old age, 20 
May, 1694. 

KiiiK, Thomas, entered the Society in 
16S9: after several years passed in Mis- 
sionary labour, died in England II Septcm- 
'^er, 17 IB, a;t. 52. 

2g 



Kirkham, Henry, (alias Heigham) 
William, was brother to the Martyr, Mrs. 
Ann Line. F. John Gerard, who knew him 
well, informs us, that he was of a respectable 
family, but was disinherited, as well as his 
sister, by a bigoted Father, for embracing 
the Catholic Faith. Soon after committed 
to Bridewell, he was visil«d by F. Gerard, 
who found him toiling and slaving at the 
wheel. On his discharge he was employed 
as Tutor in a Family, where Gerard was 
intimate ; but conceiving a vehement desire 
to enter the Society, he proceeded to Spain, 
where, it seems, he wasadmitted. He died 
in hisnative Country, during the trcublesome 
year 1646, 

*Knatchbull, Francis; at the age of 
30, and on 20 Nov. 1671, he entered the 
Novitiate, and at its termination, was di- 
rected to proceed to Maryland, where he 
died, 27 December, 1676. O. S. 

Knatchbull, Robert, born in Maryland 

I September, 1716, at the end of Rheto- 
rick bis Pri'fessor Mr. Henry Neale, 
escorted him with nine otheis from 
St. Omer's College to the iSTovitiate, 7 Sep- 
tember, 1735. In August 1748, F. Knatch- 
bull was appointed to theBrough Mission in 
Yorkshire, five-years later he took his rank 
among the Professed Fatheis. From Au- 
gust 1765, until the suppiession of the Order, 
eight years later, he filled the office of Rector 
of Ghent. Retiring to Walton Hall, in 
Yorkshire, he died there, 16 September, 
1782, deservedly esteemed and regretted. 

Knight, George, third son of Henry 
Knight, of Caunington, Esq, by his wife 
Elizabeth Blak&, was born 12 January, 
1733: began his Noviceship in 1754: fur 
some time was employed in the Cornish 
Mission ; but died suddenly at Courifield. 
Monmouthshire, 25 January, 1790. 

N.B. His elder brother William, O.S. 
F. died I April, 1806, ast. 76. 

Knight, Richard, born at Six hills in 
Lincolnshire, 4 August, 1720; was admitted 

II July, 1739; and numbered among the 
Professed Fathers, 8 December, 1756. He 
was a man of sterling merit, and full of the 
Religious spirit. He died very suddenly at 
Lincoln, where he had been the Incumbent 
tor many years, 16 December, 1793, aEt.73. 
1 have been told he was connected with ine 
lespectable family of ThorolJ. He was 
certainly brother of Lucy, Lady Gage, 

*Knowles, John. The Senior died in 
Maryland, 24 September, 1637. 

The Junior was admitted at the advanced 
age of 35, and died, after rendering useful 
service to his Brethren in Maryland, 6 
March, 1742, JEt, 46. 

Knowles. Kobert, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted in 1630; but I can glean no further 
particulars. 

• Knott, Edward. This oracle of wisdom 
and mirror of piety, saw the light of day at 
Pegs worth, near Morpeth, Northumbcrldnd. 
ilis real name «as Maflhciv ll'ilson. In 



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the course of the year 1603, he reached the 
English College at Rome to complete his 
Hivinity, and after receiving holy Orders, 

Petitioned for admission into the Society, 
le began his Noviceship at Rome, in 1606, 
and at its expiration, was appointed Peni- 
tentiary. After filling several other situa- 
tions, he was raised to the rank of a Profes- 
sed Father, 30 September, 1618. Each year 
added to his reputation : indeed be shone as 
a radiant Luminary by the fervor of his re- 
ligious spirit, by the exemplary zeal and 
discretion, and his transcendant talents and 
vigor of intellect. In 1643, a very critical 
juncture, hi was fixed upon to succeed F. 
Hen. More in the Proviucialship : and in 
that capacity he assisted in November, 
1645, at the 8th General Congregation of 
the Order. The prudence and ability which 
he exhibited in his government procured his 
reinstatement in that office 23 March, 1653, 
and he held it till his happy death in London , 
14 January, 1656, set. 74. Anthony Wood, 
p. 45, Vol. II. Athease Oxon. relates that he 
was buried the next day in St. Pancras 
Church. Feeble in constitution, but indefa- 
tigable in labor, he left to posterity the fol- 
lowing Monuments of his erudition. 

1. Charity Mistaken" 12rao. St. Omer, 
1630, pp. 130. 

2. " Mercj/ and Truth, or Charity 
maintayne I by Catholiques. By way of 
a Reply upon an Answer e lately framed 
by D. Potter* to a treatise which had for- 
merly proved, that Charity was mistaken 
by Protestants: with the want whereof 
Cotholiqvies are unjustly charged, for 
affirming, that Protestancy unrepented 
destroys salvation." 4to. St. Omer, 1634," 
pp. 206. 

3. " Directions to he observed by N. N. 
( i. e. William Chillingworth, who had 
been converted by F. John Fisher, but 
apostatised in 1031, and died at Chichester, 
in January 1644. See p. 20, Vol. II, Athen. 
Oxon ) 8vo. London, 1636. 

4. " Christianity maintained, or a 
Discovery of sundry Doctrines tending 
to the overthrow of Christian Religion 
contained in the answer to a Book in- 
titled Mercy and Truth'' 4to. St. Omer, 
1638. 

5. " Infidelity unmasked, or the Con- 
futation of a booke, published by Mr, 

William Chilling worth, under this title 
' The religion of Pootestants a safe way 
to Salvation'" 4to. Ghent, 1652, pp. 949. 

I am inclined to think, from the silence 
of his friend, F. Nathaniel Southwell, p 
185, Bibliotheca Scriptorum, S. J. that F. 
Kriott was not the Writer of " ^ modest 
briefe Discussion of some points taught 
by M. Doctour Kellison, in his Treatise 
of the Ecclesiaslicall Hierarchy," 8vo. 
Rouen, 1630, pp. 205. It appeared in 
Latin in 12mo. Antwerp 1631, pp. 262 

♦ This Dr. Christopher Potter, Dean of Worcester, 
&c. died at Queen's Col. Oxon, 3 March, 1S45. 



The note of F. Charles Plowden, pp. 247- 
8. " Remiirks on Mem nrs of Gregorio 
Panzani" is far from being satisfactory 
on this point. 

KvLES, or Kiel, Thomas, of Bucks, died 
in the College of the Apostles 4 June, 1651, 
EBt. 74. *'pid apud nos sui relictdmemo- 
rid" An. Lit.* 

Lacy, Edward. — Of whom I can glean 
ho further particulars than that he joined 
the Society 7 May, 17/2, set. 35, and that 
he died at Ghent 18 March, 1718. 

Lacy, GEoaGE, Michael. This alumnus 
of Stonyhurst College was born at Bristol 
23 April, 1793. After serving the Winger- 
worth Mission, in Derbyshire, for many 
years, died there of an enlargement of the 
heart, 16 November, 1836. 

Lacy, Richard, (The Family name was 
Price) was born at Oxford in 1648: en- 
rolled himself amongst the children of St. 
Ignatius 14 December, 1668, and became 
eminent in the practice of every religious 
virtue, especially of profound humility, 
mortification, and eagerness to suffer for the 
name of Jesus. On account of the rafing 
heat of the persecution in England, excited 
by Oates' Plot, the young Missionary was 
ordered back by his Superiors to the Low 
Countries; but at the end of five months 
was permitted to return. At his very land- 
ing at Dover he was apprehended and con- 
veyed to Newgate, in London, where, in 
four months time, the inhumanity of his 
treatment in a filthy dungeon, with the de- 
nial of medical assistance, until too late, 
brought on a burning fever, which ter- 
minated his existence ll March, 1680. O.S, 
ffi^ 32. He had the consolation of being at- 
tended in his last moments by his friend F. 
Edward Petre. 

Lacy, William, of Scarborough. After 
an education at Magdalene College, Oxon, 
he entered the Society at Nauci, in 1611^ 
and fourteen years later, during which time 
he was chiefly employed in teaching Hu- 
manities at St, Omer.'was appointed to the 
English Mission. I find that he was admit- 
ted to the Profession of the Four Vows 21 
November, 1637. From Wood's Athenee. 
Oxon. Vol. II. p. 379, we borrow the fol- 
lowing particulars of this worthy Father: 
" He settled in the city of Oxford, where, 
and in the neighbourhood, he administered 
to the Roman Catholics till towards the end 
of his life. He lived many years in a pocr 
cottage without the Eastgale of Oxford, 
with two Roman Catholic Virgins, its own» 
ers, named Mary and Joan Meakyns, who 
from their childhood had dedicated them- 
selves to piety and good works, always lived 
singly, and arrived both of them beyond the 
age of man. These did very carefully at- 
tend this Father, and took as much care of 
him, as if he had been their own father or 
brother. His fare was coarse, his drink of 
a penny a gallon : his bed was under thatch- 
ing, and the way to it was up a ladder. 



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With these two, I say, he lived in a most 
retired and devout condition, till God was 
pleased to translate them to a better place : 
and then the Father was removed to the 
Dolphin Inn, in Magdalene Parish, in the 
suburb of Oxon, the Hostess of which was 
one of his persuasion, where he ended his 
days. He was esteemed by all, especially 
by those of his opinion, a learned man, well 
versed in the Poets, of a quiet disposition, 
and gentle behaviour ; which made him 
therefore respected, and his company desired 
by certain scholars of the University, es- 
pecially by Thomas Masters, and other 
ingenious men of New College. The things 
that this Father hath written are. 

*' The Judgment of an University Man 
concerning Mr. William Chillingworth, 
his late Pamphlet, in answer to Charity 
maintained'' Pn^ied. 1639: re-printed at 
Cambridge, 8vo. In a Preface to a book 
then and there published" lleautomathia," 
or Mr. Chillingworth against himself, and 
The Total Sum" are printed at the end 
of" The Judgment, Sfc,'' 

*' At length this P'ather Lacey, who had 
lived to be twice a child, died in the Dol- 
phin Inn^ before mentioned, 17 July, 1673, 
aged 89 years: and two days after, his body 
being carried to Somerton, near Doddington, 
in Oxfordshire, (to which place he usually 
retired) was buried in the church there, no- 
ted for the splendid monuments of the Fer- 
mours, Lords of that town, and Roman 
Catholics." 

Laithwaite, Thomas, born in Lanca- 
shire, but usually passed by the name of 
Scott. Educated at homs in classical learn- 
ing, he went to Seyille to study Philosophy 
and Divinity. In 1604, he sailed from St, 
Lucar for Plymouth ; but on lauding, and 
whilst actually waiting for horses to convey 
him on to Exeter, he was met by Sir War- 
wick Hele, ('eldest son of Serjeant Hele, of 
Wemberry.) a bitter Enemy of Catholics, 
who, in quality of Justice of the Peace, pro- 
posed to him as a Stranger in the place, to 
take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. 
On his refusal he was shamefully searched ; 
but the Knight desired the 20 marks found 
on his person to be restored. At the end of 
two days his Commitment was made out 
for the High Jail in Exeter. After spend- 
ing three months in that sink of infamy and 
rhisery, he was arraigned at the Lammas 
Assizes and condemned to death, on the 
testimony of a man who swore to have seen 
him celebrate Mass at St. Lucar. About 
Christmas the same year, he had the conso- 
lation of reconciling to God and the Church, 
his brother Edward^ a most bigoted Pro- 
testant, who hearing of his imprisonment 
and condemnation, had come down purpose- 
ly to reclaim him from the Errors of Po- 
pery. He had also the satisfaction of con- 
verting a Felon, the evening before the poor 
man's execution. After six months im- 
prisonment, F. Laithwaite's sentence was 



commuted for perpetual banishment. He 
was put on board a vessel bound to St. 
Malo. The crew and passengers spent a 
day at Guernsey: and on the next day 
whilst pursuing their voyage, were over- 
taken by a dreadful storm, that drove the 
ship on the Hampshire coast. Here he con- 
trived to effect bis escape, and hastening 
without delay to F. Henry Garnett, soli- 
cited admission into the Society. This Su- 
perior placed him under the direction of F. 
John Gerard. The confusion of the times, 
occasioned by the Gunpowder Plot, delay- 
ed his admission : in fact, he was appre- 
hended soon after the discovery of the Plot, 
in attempting to rejoin F. John Gerard, at 
his residence in the country, and remained 
in jail about a twelvemonth, when with 46 
Priests he was sent into perpetual banish- 
ment. The first use he made of his liberty 
was to commence the regular Noviceship at 
Louvain, 1 February, 1607, aet. 29 ; and 
he made his Simple Vows in England, 2 
February, :609. Yet Mr. Dodd, p. 321, 
Vol. 3, Church Hist., insinuates, that he 
became a Jesuit, after labouring several 
years as a clergyman upon the Mission. 
This zealous and venerable Father died in 
England, 10 .June, 1655, aet. 77, Rel.48, 
See More's History, Lib. 9. 

Lallart, John. After serving the Mis- 
sion for many years, died at Boulogne 26 
September, 1743, aet. 51,Soc. 28. 

•Lambert, William. — We collect from 
p. 31, of More's Hist., that this temporal 
Coadjutor united himself to the Order at 
Rome, 21 July, 1657— that Cardinal Stanis- 
laus Hosius honored him with his esteem 
for his pre-eminent charity towards the 
poor and infirm — that he died in the Polish 
Stales, but the year is unrecorded, 

Lambton, Anthony, of Hants : entered 
the Society at the age of 25 : was professed 
8 December, 1630, and was reputed a man 
of talents and business-like habits. Ho 
died at Watten 17 October, 1668. aet. 76. 

*Lamet, John. — The only particulars I 
can gather of his life are from F. John 
Gerard's Autobiography, *• The first «o- 
cius that I had in England was John 
Lamet, who died a Coadjutor of our So- 
ciety in Spain " — consequently he must 
have died before the year 1610. 

Lancaster, Joseph, (whose real name 
was La Motte) born 13 July, 1712 : at the 
age of 15 was entered an alumnus of the 
English College at Rome : embraced the 
Rule of St. Ignatius in 1734, and was 
Professed in 1750. For some years was 
Penitentiary at Loretto : then was em- 
ployed in the Coinish mission ; died at 
Slate.delf, near Chorley, 17 September, 
1772. 

Land, Thomas, is mentioned by F. 
More, p. 290, History, as having died 
optato citius, in Spain, early in the I7tb 
century ; but it is evident from a letter of 
F. Knott, dated from St. Oraer, 4 February, 



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1627, that F. Land was then living at Val- 
ladolid. 

Lane, Bonayenture, joined the Order 
in 1706, and the Professed Fathers in 
1725. From being chaplain to the Barrels, 
at Scortney, he was appointed to the Mis- 
sion of Dunkenhalgh, in Lancashire, where 
he finished his course 29 January, 1750, 
set. 66. 

Lane, John.— From a MS. ofF. Per- 
sons, 1 collect that he was Master of Arts, 
and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Ox- 
ford, and that he died at AJcala in Spain, 

6 May, 1579. He had accompanied F. 
Persons to Padua, with the intention of 
tudying the Law, but he quitted this pur- 
suit to enter the Society of Jesus, 2 Feb. 
ruary, 1576. 

Lane, James, born in Worcestershire 
11 November, 1737, admitted at the age of 
21, and passed through all his studies with 
distinguished honor. For nearly half a cen- 
tury he resided at Norwich, where he was 
greatly respected. Dying 5 April, 1821, 
his remains were deposited in a plot of 
ground adjoining the chapel at Bury St. 
Edmunds, with this Epitaph. — 
i>. 0. M. 
Reverendus Jacobus Lane, 
Obiit Nonis Aprilis 
MDCCCXXI. 
Estoteparati. 

Lane, William, bornSO January, 1672; 
received into the Order 24 July, 1699; and 
Professed therein 17 August, 1709. He 
was chiefly employed al Padwell and Sliu- 
don. Declared rector of his brethren 
within the College of St Thomas, of Can- 
terbury, 8 August 1738; he was thought 
worthy to be continued in that office for 
twelve years. He diedatWinton 10 May, 
1783, aet. 80. 

Langdale, Maumaduke, born at Man- 
chester, 28 October, J748 ; joined the Soci- 
ety in 1766; and with deep regret witnessed 
its suppression seven years later. I find by 
his letter that he was ordained Priest at 
Cologne 24 July, 1776, and said his first 
Mass a week later, on the feast of his holy 
founder. This amiable Priest was sent 
shortly after to the Wigan Mission, which 
greatly flourished under his pastoral soli- 
citude. There he rested from his labours 3 
Nov. 1786, sincerely lamented by all who 
knew him. 

*Langsford, Abraham, whose real name 
was ^mos Meredith, was admitted 22 
April, 1679. He died al Ghent9 May, 
1707, aet. 48. 

Langsford, Edward, joined the order 

7 September, 1684, set. 36; but I look in 
vain for materials to foUov/ out his history. 

Langworth, Basil, is stated to have 
died at St. Omer 12 October, 1683. 

Lanman, Hemry, often called Butler, 
of Suffolk ; admitted at Louvain I February, 
1607, aet. 34; made his simple Vows 2 
February, 1609. When the plague raged 



there, this meek and indefatigable Priest 
multiplied himself, as it were, to administer 
comfort and relief to the infected. At 
length he fell a victim to his charity 5 June, 
1614. See the character of this good Fa- 
ther p. 411. More's Hist. 

F. Thomas Talbot in relating his death, 
says of him, " Petiit ar denier ut Patri- 
bus noatris fratribusque^ nuntiaretur, 
summam se eonsolationem, exeopercipere 
quod membrum esset corporis in anima- 
rum subsidium consecrati." 

*Lardeuh, Peter, died at Watten, 5 
January, 1713, aet. 59, Rel. 25. 

Lasenby, John, came from St. Omer to 
the Novitiate at Watten 7 December, 1675. 
Was certainly employed in the London 
Mission in 1701 and 1704, and died in Eng- 
land 25 August, 1724, aet. 69. 

*Lath.am, Christopher, — I believe of 
Lancashire, died in 1620. In his desk were 
found some pious memoranda and resolu- 
tions, still extant, which testify to the prO' 
gress the holy youth had made in Religious 
Spirit. 

Latham, Edward, of Lancashire ; ad- 
milted in 1628. Professed 31 July, 1649 ; 
for many years shone as the blight example 
of patient zeal and apostolic charity. Ex- 
hausted with labours in the vineyard, he 
rendered his meek spirit into the hands of 
his God, 12 July, 1667, aet. 67. 

Latham, Richard, kinsman of the above, 
joined the order in 1691 : was a Missionary 
in Maryland for some years ; but died on 
his return from that country in 1708, at the 
early age of 37. 

Launay, Alan. — This venerable Father 
died in the English College at Liege, 25 
April, 1789, ffit. 89. 

Lauiienson, John, born at Chippen 
Hill, near Witham, Essex, 6 January, 
1760. During the course of his education 
at Liege, he distinguished himself by tender 
and solid piety, and successful application. 
In that College he subsequently taught a 
course of flumanities, and some of his pu- 
pils, among whom we may number the Rev. 
Charles Brooke, have reflected the highest 
credit on their talented and experienced pre- 
ceptor. During the emigration from Liege, 
his services to the community were beyond 
all praise : at Stonyhurst they were not less 
efiective and important as Librarian, PrG- 
fessor of Mathematics, and occasional 
teacher of the Belles Lettres. The 
Right Honouiable R. L. Shiel, in an 
article published in the Monthly Maga- 
zine of August, 1829, writes, It 
was my good fortune to be placed at first, 
in the class of the K ev. Father John Lau- 
renson, -^vho was an excellent Latin Scholar, 
and had besides, a strong relish for English 
composiiion. He was anexcellenl m.au, with 
an exceedingly good heart, with generous 
and honorable feelings, and entirely free 
from that suppleness, which has been at- 
tributed, but in my mind erroneously, to the 



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body to which he belonged.-— The Rev. J. 
Laurenson was a personification of great- 
ness. He was a great gaunt man, with a 
deep sonorous voice, and a countenance, in 
which it was easy to discover his vigorous 
intellect, his open and manly nature, and 
an irascibility, which, with all his efforts, 
and with the dicipline of Loyola, he found 
it impossible to conquer. F. Laurenson 
was obliged from, I beliave, ill health, to 
gi?e up tl:e class, and was succeeded by the 
Rev. C.Brooke." 

F. Laurenson' ardent zeal for souls, in- 
duced him to commence a new Mission in 
Clitheroe, about five miles distant from the 
College. The prospect was indeed most 
discouraging: he had to encounter the deep- 
rooted prejudices and bigotry of high and 
low : his hearers but a mere handful, hardly 
as many as the dozen disciples at Ephesus. 
Acts xix. 7., and mostly of the poorest des- 
cription : the place, I well remember, for 
divine worship, was a small hut, in a back 
court, to which you mounted by several steps, 
and which had been employed as an hen 
roost. In 1799 he decided on building a 
public chapel: the foundations were laid 
16 July, that year, and such was the spirit 
and active enterprise of this undertaker, 
that the building was opened with a solemn 
High Mass 18 November following, and the 
worthy founder had the consolation of be- 
holding his labours crowned with an abun- 
dant harvest of souls. 

In 1808, he was removed to Brough Hall, 
where he greatly endeared himself to his 
flock by his exemplary charity and vigilant 
attention to his pastoral duties. Returning 
to Stonyhurst in June, 1830, he was ap- 
pointed Spiritual Father to the Scholastics 
in the New House, or Seminary ; but 29 
June, 1832, was sent to Bury St. Edmunds, 
lo supply for F. Henry Wright, who was 
obliged to relinquish from bad health. 
Here the good pastor pursued his apostolic 
career untill his death, 19 September, 1834. 
This mournful event deprived many of an 
') nteresling companion, and a cordial friend ; 
the poor grisved for his loss as that of a fa- 
ther, whilst religion regretted and will 
cherish his memory, as of one of her most 
zealous, disinterested and faithful Ministers, 

From the pen of this accomplished scho- 
lar, we have, 

, 1. " Considerations on the Love of 
God," a translation from the French of 
Pere Huby. In a letter to me dated 22 
March, 1832, F, Laurenson thus expresses 
himself, " When Mr. Francis Neale quitted 
Liege for Maryland, 3 April 1788, I gave 
him my M.S. translation of P. Huby. Many 
years after I received from Archbishop Car- 
rol, two printed copies of the work (from 
the Philadelphia press,) to which he has 
added a short Preface." I have little doubt 
but that the Cork edition of 1819 was 
printed from that copy, to which a very 
long preface has been added by somebody." 
2 H 



2. " The Life of St. Stanislaus Kostka.*' 
from the French of P6re D'Orleans. 12mo. 
Richmond, 1816, pp. 124. 

3. " Christian sanctified by the Lord's 
Prayer," from the French of Pere Grou, 
12mo. Richmond, 1817, pp. 108. 

4. " A Translation of Lombez 'Paix 
Interieure,' " «hich I have not seen. 

He was also the author of a most inter- 
esting narrative in MS. of the Emigration 
from Liege to Stonyhurst ; and he is ever 
inlitled lo the grateful recollection of his 
brethren for rescuing from oblivion the 
MS. Noice Patris Gulielmi Weston de 
vita su&J" This MS. had been much in- 
jured by damp, and was in a decayed con- 
dition, when F. Laurenson transcribed it 
in 136 pages. 

*Lauro, Lewis. This scholastic died 
at Liege 29 May, 1729, set. 25. Soc. 3. 

*Laward, John, of Bucks, and passed 
by the name of Fettiplace : he was admit- 
ted at Louvain for a Temporal Coadjutor, 

1 February, 1607. 

Lawson, Thomas, (I & 2) both of Brough 
Hall, in Yorkshire. The Senior was born 
8 Dec. 1666: joined the Novitiate in 1684, 
and was raised to the rank of a Professed 
Father in 1702. For a time was Confessor 
to James IH,, commonly called the Pre- 
tender. After completing his triennium 
as Rector of Watten, he was appointed 
Provincial of his Brethren in 1724. The 
following yearMary (heiress of Sir Nicholas 
Shireburn, of Stonyhurst, Bart.) the 
Duchess of Thomas, 8th Duke of Norfolk, 
anxious to have a Jesuit for her chaplain 
and director, requested the General of the 
Order, F. Tamburini,to grant her F. Law- 
son for this purpose. Her wish was grati- 
fied. F. Lawson was released from the 
responsibility of the Provincialship, and at- 
tended on her Grace until late in the year 
1733. On 1 January the next year, he 
was re-appointed Rector of Watten, and 
retained that office until September, 1740. 
Retiring then to St. Omer, he died 18 De- 
cember, 1750, aet." 84. His exhortations 
on the Rules of the Society, which he had 
delivered to the Novices at Watten, he left 
to the care of the ladies at Micklegate Bar, 
of York. 

The Junior was born 20 March, 1720, 
joined the Order in his seventeenth year, 
and was admitted to his solemn Profession 

2 February, 1754. After filling several 
offices, he was declared Rector of the Col- 
lege at Bruges 24 February, 1766, *and held 

* On this occasion the Rev. Jos. Reeve, Professor 
of Rhetorick, and his pupils, addressed the fol- 
lowJng Ode to the new President. 

Quas opes, Jesu, miseris recludis! 
Corde qu^m dulces jacularis ignes, 
Saucium ut nobis meliore flagret 

Pectus amore! 

2 

Conditus parra Deus in figura 
Gaudct humanos latuisse serntus; 
Gaudet at proesens referare sacii 
Vulnera cordis, 



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3 

Suavis hie duri requies laborls, 
Hlc modus lassis petitur malorum, 
Hinc & ignito pietas amorque 
Defluit amne. 
4 

Hinc tibi castisine labe mores, 
Nobilis candor, probitas fidesque 
Uberi manant. Pater, afSuentis 
Numinis haustu. 
5 

Corde non uno potuit teneri 
Tanta vis ignis ; male gnarasisti 
Pagnat, & fervens avet aestuantes 
Spargere flammas. 
6 

Namque quid sacros referam labores, 
Cum tuis dulces aperis recessus, 
Doctus & Jesu simul & Mariae 
Pandere corda. 
7 

Nos tibi toto famulata corde 
Turba gratamur merita decoram 
Laude virtutem potuisse surama 
Sede locari. 

that situatiou until 21 December, 1769. 
Just before his being named Rector, he had 
published a short treatise on " Devotion 
to the sacred heart of Jesus" a devotion 
that he piously and zealously promoted, un- 
til the end of his life. He also re-published 
the Rev. Robert Manning's two Discourses 
on " Devotion to the 3, V. Mary,'* for 
gratuitous distribution. After the fatal 
dissolution of his Order, F. Lawson re- 
turned to England, and finished his length- 
ened course in London ll July, 1807, in the 
88th year of his age. His epitaph in St. 
Pancras church yard is hardly worth pre- 
serving. Nearly 23 years before his death 
viz. 15 November, 1784, he submitted at 
York to an operation for the stone. It was 
most skilfully performed by Mr. Hey, sur- 
geon, of Leeds, and the good Father en- 
joyed afterwards a tolerable share of health. 

Layton, John, of Derbyshire : a most 
devout, religious, eloquent Preacher and 
zealous Missionary. He died about the 
year 1626, set. 38. Soc. 12. See p; 459 of 
F. More's History. Q. Did he not Trans- 
late into English some ofF, Jaraes Gordon's 
works ? 

Laytony Joseph^ see Housemant Chris- 
topher . 

Layton, John Joseph, of Lancashire : 
I think his family name was Leigh, and 
that he was admitted in 1661 : he occurs 
rector of Ghent from 1696, to 1703. He 
died at Mechlin 1 December, the last men- 
tioned year. 

Layton, Philip, (alias Leigh ) of Lan- 
cashire, but generally passed on the Mission 
by the name of Metcalf. He was entered 
an alumnus of the English College at Rome 
in 1671 ; but embraced the Institute of St. 
Ignatius 20 June, 1678. I believe he was 
first stationed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
The annual letters show that here was 
*' sacellvtm satis amplum et schola fre- 
gueits."— that F. L. was a model of zeal 
and charity — that in a short period he re- 
conciled eighty to the church, and heard 
more than three hundred general confessions, 



When Bishop Leyburn visited that town 
10 and 12 August, 1687, this worthy Father 
presented 360 persons for Confirmation. 
On 29 January, 1688, he preached a sermon 
before the Right Worshipful the Mayor 
of that town. Sir William Creagh, which 
was published by Henry Hills, printer to 
King James II. and the Royal Household. 
A copy of the sermon is extant in the li- 
brary of St. Mary's College, Oscott ; and 
Dr. Weedall, a good critic, has pronounced 
in his letter (p. 334. Cath, Miscellany of 
1826^ that "it displays learning, piety, 
and moderation." See also p. Ill of the 
said Miscellany. After the revolution F. 
L., or Metcalf, became attached to the 
Powis Family, as we read in the Annual 
Letters of 1710. 

" P. Philippus Layton utilissimamope- 
ram foris navat in Resideniia S. Wine- 
fridce, licet, numerosisimce Ducis de 
Powis Familice ad ■ictus. He ended his 
days at Holywell 31 January, 1717, aet. 66. 
According to Alban Butler's S.S. Lives 
(3 November.) F. Metcalf published 1712 
an enlarged edition of the " Life and Mi- 
racles of Sto Winefrid,'' by F. John 
Falconer. The Text was re-printed in 
1713, with bitter splenetic notes by Dr. 
Wm. Fleetwood, then Bishop of Asaph. 

Layton, Thomas, of Lancashire com- 
menced his Noviceship in 1614; but I can- 
not recover the date of his death, nor of 
William Layton's. 

Leach, Humphrey, of Allerton, Shrop. 
shire : educated at Brazenose College, Ox- 
ford. Preferred to a vicaiage in Shrews- 
bury and to a Chaplaincy in Christ Church, 
Oxford ; a sermon that he preached from xx 
ch. Revel. 12th v. in defence of the Evan- 
gelical Counsels and the Fathers, occasioned 
extraordinary excitement throughout the 
University, and vexatious annoyance to 
himself; but the opposition he had to en- 
counter opened his eyes to the light of truth, 
induced him to retire abroad, and after some 
years to embrace the rule of St. Ignatius at 
Rome, in 1618. In due time he was sent to 
the English Mission, and resided with the 
Massey Family in Cheshire. His course 
was very short, for ' tabe et languoribus 
consumptus'' he went to receive the reward 
of his worldly sacrifices and meritorious la- 
bours 8 June, 1629, aet. 57. See p. 314, Lib. 
i. p. 221, Lib. ii. Hist, and Antiq. Univ. 
Oxon. — Also p. 457, Vol. I. Athenae Oxon. 
We have under his name *' Dutifull con- 
siderations addressed to King James, 
concerning his premonitory Epistle to 
Christian Princes" 4to. St. Omer, 1609, 
pp. 243; but it is distinctly ascertained that 
F. Persons had the chief hand in its com- 
position. 

2. The Triumph cf Truth;' with a 
considerable Appendix relating to his 
Conversion to the Catholic Faith," 8vo. 
Douay, 1609 ; which I have not been able 
to examine. 



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Leadbitteh, John, born at Wigan 7 
September, 1795: on his birth day 19 years 
later hejoined the holy Soc. of Jesus : was 
ordained Priest at Modena in July 1823. 
In December, of the ensuing year he suc- 
ceeded F. Richard Norris, at Pilewell ;— 
and about 2 years later was placed at Nor- 
wich, where he opened St. Swithin's Cha- 
pel on Wednesday 2 September, 1829> A 
full report of the interesting ceremony was 
given in the Norwich Mercury of Saturday 
6 September, that year. The Bells of St. 
Gile's Parish Church, rang at intervals du- 
ring the day, in honour of the event, and at 
the conclusion several voUies were fired. 
The late Cardinal Weld, of happy memory 
sung the Pontifical Mass. But we give the 
Editor's Report. — 

NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL. 
The ceremony of opening theNew Catholic 
Chapel, erected from a design and under the 
superintendance of Mr. Patience, took 
place on Wednesday. On this occasion a 
solemn Pontifical Mass was celebrated by 
the Right Eev. Dr. Weld, who was as. 
sisted by the Rev. J. Postlewhite as 
Assistant Priest, the Rev. F. Daniel, as 
Deacon, and the Rev Joseph Wilson, as 
Sub-Deacon, There were about sixteen of 
the Catholic Clergy assembled on the oc- 
casion, and after they had moved slowly in 
procession round the Chapel in their sacer- 
dotal vestments, preceding the Bishop and 
his Assistants, the mass began. The orna- 
ments of the Bishop & his Attendants were 
eminently splendid, &his manner calculated 
to impress the congregation v/ith the con- 
viction of his powerful religious feeling, 
The Sermon in the morning was preached 
by the Rev. F. Martyn, of Walsall. The 
delivery of this divine is fluent and persua- 
sive, his voice silvery in its tone, and his 
manner easy and graceful. The discourse 
was chiefly a portraiture of the life of the 
Redeemer, shewing by his words and ac- 
tions that the loye of God and of our neigh- 
bour is the end of the Christian Faith and 
Discipline. The preacher, towards the end 
of his discourse, in a very happy allusion 
to the cure of the centurion's servant, grant- 
ed in consideration of his having erected a 
synagogue, shewed in a natural and forcible 
manner how acceptable to Almighty God 
would be the charitable contributions of all 
those who had assisted in the erection of 
this temple to his worship. 

The afternoon service commenced like 
that in the morning by a solemn procession 
round the Chapel, closed by the Bishop in 
a rich cope. On arriving at the Altar the 
Te Deum was solemnly intoned by the 
Prelate, and continued by the choir. After 
the recital of several appropiaie psalms and 
prayers in English, the Very Rev. Mr. 
KiRWAN, one of the Vicars of the Catholic 
Wardenateof Galway, ascended the pulpit, 
and preached an eloquent and animated 
Sermon on the establishment and progress 



of the christian church. The manner of 
Mr. K. was in the highest degree energetic, 
his diction florid, and bis in^agery lofty and 
poetical. The service concluded by the 
solemn and imposing ceremony of Bene- 
diction, 

The music was chiefly the composition 
of Mr. James Taylor. We last week 
spoke of its general merits, and our own 
opinions are completely borne out by its 
public performance. Parts of it were ex- 
ceedingly efiective, while the whole leaves 
upon the mind of the hearer au agreeable 
recollection of its flowing melodies, pleasing 
modulation, and rich harmonies — in short, 
it cannot be heard without a strong recol- 
lection of the style of Haydn, though it is 
without any direct imitations. The vocal 
efi"ects were perhaps the most perfect, and 
the adaptation of the wind instruments 
manifested a considerable share of acquain- 
tance with the German mode of instrumenta- 
tion. The first chorus, The Kyrie, and 
Gloria in excelsis, were particularly ani- 
mated — as was also the opening of the Cre- 
do, and the base air Et in spiritum. The 
soprano parts v/ere sustained by a young lady 
whose voice is sweet and powerful — the 
tenor and base parts by gentlemen whose 
attainments manifest much cultivation of 
the art — and indeed the whole was highly 
creditable to the bandj which was led by Mr. 
Mueller and conducted by Mr. Taylor, 
and consisted principally of amateurs. 

The congregation was not so numerous as 
was anticipated— owing in some degree per- 
haps to a generally received belief that the 
Chapel would be crowded to excess, which 
kept many away, and particularly those of 
the antient faith. Loud and Lady Staf- 
FORD with their Family, Sir Richard and 
Lady Bedingfield were present. 

We have so recently and so fully de- 
scribed this beautiful building, that nothing 
remains to be said upon that part of the sub- 
ject more than that the service of the day 
has proved its excellence for the purposes it 
is intended. Ample space for ingress and 
egress, a capacious area for a numerous 
congiegation, free transmission of sound, 
and just so much resonance as may increase 
without confusing either musical tones or 
those of speech— all these properties are 
found in an adequate degree of perfection. 

One of the most cui ious circumstances at- 
tending this celebration was, that the bells 
of St. Gile's parish church rang at intervals 
during the day in honour of the event, and 
at \\\Q conclusion flred many vollies. Jt is 
said that no similar demonstration since the 
Reformation has taken place on any occasion, 
connected with the Catholic body, and we 
cannotbut complimentthe parish authorities 
on their tolerant permission of the wishes of 
their fellow christians of the antient faith. 

Leckonby, Richard, of a good family 
in Lancashire, born in 1C9C: entered the 
Novitiate at the age of 2 1 . This venerable 



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Father, after a long Missionary life, died 
at Croxton 8 May, 1771. 

Leckoney, Thomas, brother I suppose, 
to F, Richard L.; was admitted into the 
Order in 1721, and died in the Maryland 
Mission 16 December, 1734(, at the early age 
of 31. 

Another F. Thomas L. I think, was 
nephew to the above, born 15 October, 1717; 
admitted in 1736. Professed 2 February, 
1754, and died, according to one account, 
14) February (but according to another 19 
February) 1778, at Pontop, in the Parish 
of Lanchester, in the County of Durham. 

*Lee, Francis. The Provincial Return 
of 1655, fixes the death of this temporal 
Coadjutor to 14 February of that year, set. 
79. Rel. 47. 

Lee, Roger, of an illustrious Family. 
Possessing a very numerous acquaintauce, 
and tl^ highest personal recommendations, 
he was enabled to introduce his friend F. 
John Gerard, into the best Society, and thus 
supply means and opportunities of gaining 
souls to God. On 27 October, 1600, this 
accomplished Gentleman placed himself 
amongst the Novices of St. Andrews, at 
Rome, and eventually became one of the 
most useful members of the Order, He died 
of Consumption at Dunkirk, whilst pre- 
paring to sail for England, to recover his 
health, in 1615, set, 47. See p. 266 of F. 
Moie's History, also his life in Tanner's 
Confessors of S. J. 

Leigh, Alexander, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted 4 December, 1700, Professed 2 Feb- 
ruary, 1718. For many years -was em- 
ployed in the Mission, and for a time served 
Preston, where, I think, he died 9 March, 
1748, set. 67. He often passed by the name 
of John Layton. 

Leigh, John, of Lancashire, was admit- 
ted in 1660. 

Another of the same name joined the So- 
ciety in 1678; but in vain I search for fur- 
ther particulars. 

Leigh, Richard, of Lancashire ; admit- 
ted in 1625 : F. Knott in a letter dated 15 
January, 1627, describes him as "a very 
Religious, quiet, and tractable Novice"; 
but afterwards I lose sight of him. 

Leigh, Roger, born in Lancashire, 15 
March, 1708: in his 20th year joined the 
Society.^ His contemporary, Thomas Phil- 
lips, of whom more hereafter, had a special 
regard for him. F. Roger L. closed a long 
Missionary life in his native County, 29 
January, 1781. 

Leigh, William. It is mortifying to 
confess, that I can learn nothing of him ; 
but that he died at Valladolid. 

*Leiten, John, or Lutton. I believe 
was a Belgian lay-brother. He died at St. 
Omer, 12 January, 1760, set. 55. Rel. 39. 

*Lem, Nicholas, admitted 20 November, 
1680, died at St. Omer, 2 September, 1720, 
fst. 64. 

*Lenthall, John. This temporal Coad- 



jutor is described in the Annual Letter as 
'* illmtris ortu, illustrior virtutibus'* 
He died at Liege of the stone, 26 April, 
1639, ffit. 80. 

*Lester, Francis, of Wales: studied at' 
Rome : died at Liege, 8 May, 1732, set. 27 
Soc. 2. 

Levison, Edward, joined the Order 13 
November, 1669 At the Revolution, «vas 
engaged in the Oxfordshire Mission, and 
narrowly escaped with liis life from the popu- 
lar fury. The good old Father rested from 
his labors in England, 13 April, 1720. aet. 
78. 

Levison, Richard, I think was attached 
to the Petre Family. His sermonon " Un- 
iimely Repentance'' preached before Tho- 
mas, the 6th Lord Petre, at Ingatestone 
Hall, on Passion Sunday, 1 April, 1688, 
was published. He died 14 September, 
1715, I believe in bis 66th year. 

Levinge, Hichard, admitted in 1705. 
Professed at the Gesu at Rome. 2 February^ 
1724; left that City for St. Omer, in the fol- 
lowing November: in the sequel was cer- 
tainly Missionary at Holt, where I think 
he died, 5 December, 1745, set. 58.- 

Leukner, Thomas, of West Dean, Sussex. 
In a letter of F. John Gerard addressed from 
Liege, 19 September, 1614, I read "There is 
Mr Lewkner, who growinge of late to a full 
resolution of enteringe the Societie, and be- 
inge soe much knowenin England, and in 
the Court as he is, soe that he could not be 
concealed in the English CoUedge at Rome, 
beinge to goedaylie to and from the Scholes, 
and his Father ^as he considers) beinge 
morally sure to loose his place (which is 
worth unto him £1QQQ a yeare, and his 
Estate not great besides it) he therefore 
thought it very needful to stay bis journey to 
Rome. — Mr. L. is a man everle way fit for 
our imployment ; he hath a verie good witt, 
both quicke and judiciouse, and an excellent 
good disposition, with a fine behaviour 
and experience in conversation with the bet- 
ter sort, and which I most respect, he is and 
will be a solide, vertuouse, and spirituall 
man. He hath learning sufficient to begin 
Logicke, which after his Novitiate he may 
doe privately in France. I beseech your 
Reverence to send order for bis admittance.'* 
This humble and devout Religious died in 
England, 5 April, 1645, aet. 58. Rel. 31. 
His Profession is dated 13 August, 1626. 

♦Lewis, Francis, who passed by the 
name of Thomas Evans, finished his pious 
course at Liege, 29 May, 1677. 

Lewis, John. — The 1st was of Wales, 
and Uncle to the Martyr David Lewis, alias 
Charles Baker, S. J; At the age of 21, ha 
aggregated himself to the Society, and died 
in the English Mission, 16 November, 1648, 
at the early age of 38. 

The 2nd, born 21 October, 1721, was ad- 
milted at the age of 19, and professed in 
the 18th year after his entrance into Re- 



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ligidn. He often passed by the name of 
Leppard. He was the mild superior of his 
Brethren in Maryland, where he departed 
to our Lord, 24 March, 1788. Dr. John 
Carroll, in a letter dated 20 April that year, 
from Baltimore, movinoly regrets the loss 
of this valuable Father. 

The 3rd finished his lengthened coarse in 
the Maryland Missioo 6 April, 1795. set. 74. 
See. 55. Prof. 37. 

Lewis, James, born 7 January, 1731, ad- 
mitted 7 September, 1748, made a Spiritual 
Coadjutor of the Society, 2 February, 1761, 
died in London, 27 September, 1776. 

Lewis, Peter, is said to have been 
drowned at St. Oraer, 24 May, 1735. 

Lewis, Theodore: after serving the Mis- 
sion for some years, died in England, 31 
July, 1707. 

Lewis, Thomas, of Yorkshire: was ad- 
mitted in 1628: appointed to the office of 
Confessarius at Watten, four years later, and 
died there 12 October, 1644, at the early age 
of36. 

The other Father of this name, (vere 
Culcheth) was born in Lancashire,21 April, 
1741 : after studying at Valladolid, was 
admitted into the Society, 28 June, 1763. 
For a time he supplied, as Missioner, at 
Lindley, Wappenbury, and Wardour, and 
then was placed at Chidiock, where he con- 
tinued for 21 years. On the Reverend 
William Poole's quitting Exeter in January 
1807, F. Lewis was ordered to repair thither 
and to do duty until October that year, when 
he was succeeded by the Collector of this 
handful of gleanings. The Revei-end Father 
had hardly returned to his favourite resi- 
dence at Chidiock, when obedience directed 
him to assist the Community at New Hall, 
in Essex. After a short stay there, he was 
enabled to resume his station at Chidiock, 
where he died, deservedly honoured and re - 
gretted, 5 September, 1809. He was car- 
i-ied to his grave in the Arundell Vault of 
that Parish Church, by six brotheis of his 
congregation, of the respectable Family 
of Tucker. 

Lichfield, William, died at Watten, 6 
January, 1680. 

Lily, John, originally brought up to the 
business ofan Apothecary, in London. For 
his zeal in the Catholic cause, he suffered a 
long imprisonment in the Clinck. Shortly 
after his discharge, he was apprehended again, 
and immured in the Tower, where he was 
inhumanly tortured, but not a word could 
be extracted from him, that could prejudice 
the fortune, or compromise the character of 
his numerous acquaintance. Affcer three or 
four months, he was removed to Newgate, 
whence he effected his escape, and continued 
his valuable services to FF, Garnett, 
Gerard, and many other Missionaries. 
About the year 1602, he was admitted into 
the Society at Rome, 1 find by a letter of 
F. Persons, that he left that City for Lou- 
vain, 15 May, 1609; but he proceeded to 

2 I. 



England, but died of apulraonary complaint 
before the end of that year, aet. 36. " F. Ge- 
rard says of him " erat eerie innocens 
anima et cum prudentid turn magnd soler, 
tid praditus." 

Line, Francis, (alias Hall) born in Loft, 
don in 1595 ; joined the Society in 1623, 
made his Religious Profession 20 August, 
1640, and was deservedly in repute as an 
able Professor of Hebrew and Mathematics. 
During the time he was serving the English 
Mission, he constructed in the garden of 
Whitehall Palace, the curious dial mentioned 
by Pennant, p. 110 " Description of Lon- 
don," It stood on a pedestal, and consis- 
ted of six parts, rising one above the other" 
with multitudes of planes cut on each, 
which are so many dials subservient to the 
purposes of Geography, Astrology, and 
Astronomy. To four of these parts are 
Globes placed in a branch, like a Chandelier. 
The description surpasses ray powers. I 
must leave the reader to consult the very 
tcarce book* printed by the inventor at Liege, 
in 1673, in which are plates of the several 
parts and their various uses explained." F. 
N. Southwell states, that this explication 
tvas published first in London in the year 
1669, when the Dial was constructed. This 
scientific geometrician wrote a " Ref utation 
of the attempt to square the Circle." 8vo. 
London, 1660. He had been much hurt, as 
appears by his letter to the General, Fa- 
ther Goswin Nickel, J.S. dated Liege, 21 
February, 1657, at the acrimonious obstinacy 
with which his Friend F. Gregory a 
Vincentiot had defended his book ' De 
quadraturd Circuli" against the unan- 
swerable and good tempered attack of the 
learned Huyghens, and he adds, that he had 
in vain endeavoured to convince his Rev. 
Confrere of the incorrectness of his reasoning, 
and of the 44th proposition of the X book 
of his work. We have also from his pea 
" A treatise on the Barometer,' and a 
Latin work " De corporum inseparahili' 
late.''' Professor Play fair, Vol. II. p. 
379 of his works, printe«l at Eninburgh in 
1822, says that FF. Line and Lucas had a 
controversy with the immortal Newton, and 
that he opposed his Theory of Light and his 

* A copy is at Stonyhurst, and bears for title "An 
Explicalion of the Diall ssi up in the King's Garden 
at London. An. 16C9 . " in which very many sorts of 
Dyalls are contained, by which, besides the Houres 
of all kinds diversely expressed, many things also 
belonging to Geography, Astrology and Astronomy, 
are by the Sunne's shadow made visible to the 
eye. Amongst which very many Dialls, especially 
the most curious, are new inventions, hitherto di- 
vulged by none — Ail these particulars are shortly 
yet clearly set forth for the common good, by the 
Rev. F. Francis Hall, otherwise Line.oiihQ Society 
of Jesus, Professorof Malhematicks, Liege, 1673, 
pp. GO, Copper-plates 18, Small 4to." Ho calls the 
Diall " a Pyramidicall Dyall." It was much da- 
maged by /ro3t during the First winter after it was 
erected. 

+ This eminent scholar died at Ghent 27 January . 
1667. aet. 80. Huyghens died at the Hague In 1695. 

ret, 66. 



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ixperiments on (he Telescope. If Father 
Line were engaged in the Controversy, Sir 
Isaac Newton must then have been com- 
paratively young. The former died at Liege 
25 November, 1675. Sir Isaac survived him 
62 years.* 

*LiNNE, John, died at Liege 4 October, 
1636. 

Lister, Thomas, lived at Henlip with F. 
Oldcorne, as I collect from F. Gerard's 
MS. " habebat aulem socium insignem et 
doctum Patrem Thomam Listeruniy' but 

I can learn nothing more. Q. Is not F. W. 
Baldwin? 

*LiTH, Thomas, of London, appears to 
have been admitted during the life of St. 
Ignatius, in June, 1555, seti 19. 

Livers, Arnold, born in North America, 

II May, 1750. At the age of 19 entered 
the Novitiate; and soon after his promotion 
to the Priesthood returned to cultivate the 
vineyard in his native country. This zea- 
lous Father finished his Apostolical course 
there 13 August, 1777, Prof. 25. 

*LiVESAY, James, after rendering impor- 
tant services to the Provinceas a lay-brother, 
died at Bruges 9 June, 176G, set. 58. Rel. 
26. 

LivESAY, John, brother I think to James, 
born 5 July, 1712: die l at Lullworth 9 Oc- 
tober, 1781, Rel. 44. 

♦ We need not dweil long on the early objections 
which were made to Newton's doctrine of Colours. 
A Jesnit of the name of Ignatius Paid ies. Pro fcfssor at 
Clermont, at first attempted to account for the elon- 
gation of the image, by the difference of the angles 
made by the rays, from the two edges of the sun, 
which vcould produce a difference in the amount of 
refraction of the two borders : but when Newton 
pointed out the calculations which showed the in- 
sufficiency of the explanation, he withdrew his op- 
position. Ano her more pertinacious opponent ap- 
peared in Francis Linus, (a Physician of Liege !^ ) 
who maintained, that having tried the experiment, 
he found the sun's image, when the sky was clear, 
to be round and not oblong; and he ascribed the 
elongation noticed by Newton, to the efifectof clouds. 
Newton for some time refused to reply to this con- 
tradiction of his assertions, though obstinately per- 
sisted in ; and his answer was at last sent, just 
about the tims of Linus's death, in 1675. But Gas- 
coigne, a friend of Linus, stih maintained that he and 
ottiers had seen what the Dutch Physician had de- 
scribed; and Newton, who was pleased with the can- 
dour of Gascoigne's letter, suggested that the Dutch 
experiments might have taken one of the images re- 
flected from the surface of the prism, of which there 
are several, instead of the proper refracted one. By 
the aid of this hint, Lucas of Liege repeated New- 
ton's experiments, and obtained Newton's result, 
except that he never could obtain a spectrum 
whose length was more than three and a half times 
its breadth; Newton on his side, persisted in asser- 
ting thatthe image would be five times as long as 
broad, if theexperiment were properly made. It 
Is curious that he should have been so confident of 
this, as to conceive himself certain that such would 
be the result in all cases. We know now that the 
dispersion, and consequently the length of the spec- 
trum, is very diGTerent for different kinds of glass, 
audit is very probable that the Dutch prism was 
really less dispersive than the English one. The 
erroneous assumption which Newton made in this 
Instance, beheld by to the last ; and was thus pre- 
vented from making the discovery of which we have 
liext to spe&k."— Whew ell's History/ of (he Induc- 
tive Science, 1837, Vol. Ji.pp. 354 ana 355. 
Brewster's Newton, p. 50. 



LocKART, Thomas, admitted ISOd. \6^3, 
as a Novice, and 9 May, 1705 as a Spiri- 
tual Coadjutor. For some time he was 
stationed at Cheame.in Surrey, and at Cul- 
cheih Hall in Lancashire. For the last three 
years of his life he boarded with F. Carpen- 
ter, at Brinn, where he finished his pilgrim- 
age 2 March, 1744, set. 72, 

Lodge, Thomas, born 7 July, 1726 : ad» 
mitted at the end of Rhetoric in 1744: soon 
after bis ordinations, was sent to Lanherne, 
in Cornwall, and conciliated general esteem 
and respect ; but in the mid-career of his 
usefulness, tins promising Missionary caught 
his death, as one who knew him informed me, 
by sleeping in a damp bed. This melancholy 
loss took place 6 January, 1764. 

♦Lombard, John. — This Temporal Coad- 
jutor, and mirror of gentleness and unaffected 
piety, died at St, Ottier, 7 November, 1027, 
set. 4S. Soc. 23. See p. 4f)0 of More's Hist. 

LoMPAitET, Maurice, is said to have died 
during his voyage to India, Q. When? 

LovELL, George, entered the Novitiate 
in 1669: died in England 12 December, 
1720, aged 70. 

LovELL. John, of Norfolk. This model 
of a religious man and of a Superior of his 
brethren, died in Oxfordshire 1 i October, 
16B3, aet. 78. Soc. 54. Prof. 42. 

LovETT, George, (alias Robinson.) From 
the Annnal Letters 1640, ne discover, that 
whilst this good Father was attending the 
faithful inDerbyshire and Nottinghamshire, 
he was attacked with Cancer in the face — 
that he was removed to London for the bene- 
fit of surgical advice ; but afterfour months 
of exquisite suffering, endured with invinci- 
ble patience, he died most piously in Au- 
gust, that year. 

Lower, William, born 26 December, 
1704: when seventeen years of age joined 
the Society, and was promoted to the rank 
of a Professed Father at Liege 2 February, 
1740. His death occurred at Rome 3 Oc- 
tober, 1714. 

♦LowicK, Joseph, of Yorkshire. This 
Temporal Coadjutor, according to the An- 
nual Letters of 1675, died at Liege 16 Oc- 
tober that year, set. 64, Soc. 42. " Vir 
eximicB plane virtutis ac singulari Elogio 
dignus." That elogium aaay be seen in the 
Florus Anglo Bavaricus. 

Lucas, Anthony. — After passingthrongh 
the office of rector at Watten, Liege, a'^iid 
Rome, he was declared Provincial, but died 
shortly after at Watten, viz. 3 October, 
1693. That he was in repute as a Philoso- 
pher may be collected from p. 379, Vol.11, 
of Professor Playfair's works, when he is 
said to have contended, but unsuccessfully, 
with that Prince of Genius, Sir Isaac New- 
ton. I think he was the author of a MS. 
Life, in 4to. nowat Wardour, intitled' i?/e 
and Death of the most blessed among Wo- 
men^ the Virgin Mary, Mother of our 
Lord Jesus." 



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Lucas, Charles, born 12 September, 
1713; commenced his Noviceship in 1733; 
was raised to the rank of a Professed Father 
at Liege2 February. 1751. For many years 
this excellent Priest and most accomplished 
gentlema!!. resided with the Petre family in 
Essex. He died at Thorndon 19 May, 1787. 

Lusojf, Edwaud, died in England 14 
June, 1640. 

LusoN, Richard, entered the Society in 
1670, set, 21; but I can trace him out no 
further. 

Lusher, Edward, a man of considerable 
ability: taught Humanities, Philosophy and 
Divinity, and was enrolled among the Pro- 
fessed Fathers 5 August, 1625. Sixteen 
years later he was sent to the English Mis- 
sion; but I meet him at Ghent in November, 
164)7. During the Plague in London, he 
devoted himself to attend the infected, and 
(lied there a victim of charity 27 September, 
1665, set. 77. Soc. 55. 

Lusher, Nicholas, died in England 30 
November. 1653. 

Lydiat, William, admitted in 1673: 
died in England 30 October, 1691, set. 41. 

*Mace, John.— This Temporal Coad- 
jutor was a native of Worcestershire, and 
died at Rome 14 September, 1689, set. 69. 
Rel. 41. 

*Macey, Robert, died at Watten 27 Oc- 
tober, 1636, 

*Mac Kinnon, John. — In a Catalogue 
of the late F. W. Strickland, 1 read that this 
candidate of the Society died in London 27 
January, 1808. 

*Main de Fer, Peter, born in Picardy 
20 Decembei-, 1708, admitted at Watten at 
the age of 25; died at Boulogne, 17 May, 
1748. 

*Mainwarning, Joseph, of Cheshire, 
was converted at St. Omer, byF. W. Ireland, 
that meek and zealous sufferer for the Faith. 
Entering the order, he passed through the 
Noviceship ; and but 17 days after making 
his Vows, God was pleased to crown his 
merit with a most pious death at Liege, 24 
September, J678, set. 23. 

Maire, Christopher — This able Mathe- 
matician, as Alban Butler* calls him, was 
a younger son of the Family at Hartbushes, 
in the county of Durham, (which was a 
branch of the Maires of Hardwith, County 
of Durham, and of Lartington, County of 
York,) and >vas born on 6 March, 1697; 
joined the society in I7l5: and was admit- 
ted at St, Omer's to the Profession of the 
Four Vows, 2 February, 1733. After 
teaching Humanities at St. Omer, and Phi- 
losophy and Divinity at Liege, he was ap- 
pointed Rector of the English College at 
Rome, in the Autumn of 1744, and held 
that office until the year 1750. We read in 
F. Rayraund Diosdado Cabellero's Life of 
F. Boscovich, (p. 108 Supplement I, Bi- 
blioth. Scriptorum, S,J. Romse, 1814, 4to.) 

• See Note 6, Vol. XI. SS. Lives, 18th of 
November. 



" Boesovichius. el Christophorus Maire 
celeberrimus Astronomus, a Benedicto 
XfV, delecii fuerunt, ut sumptibus Ponti- 
Jiciis ambo universam ditionem Ecclesi- 
asticam peragrarenl ad telluris magni- 
tudinem et figuram inveniendas et 
geographicam simul dilionis ejusdem 
chartam delineandam. Suscepti laboris 
fructus, clarissimi duo Uii viri quinque 
opusculis, expositos et in dicto opere com- 
prehensos eidem Benefactori Pontijici 
dedicarunt. Secundi et Terlii Opusculi, 
Auctor est Maireius ; reliqua scripsit 
Boseovichiiis." I believe the work ap- 
peared fiom Pagliarini's Press at Rome, in 
4to. A, D. 1755. I find in a letter of F. 
Thorpe what follows : — 

When F. Christopher Maire was engraving 
his Map of the States of Urbino, for the 
Cardinal Legate Stoppani, his Eminence de- 
sired him to join F. Boscovick's name to 
give it credit. The true author F. Maire 
answered, that as he himself would think it 
an affront to be called a joint author, if he 
had no hand in it ; so he thought Boscovick 
might take it amiss, to have his name so 
placed ; but if the Cardinal desired, he 
would mention, that the Map had been 
drawn from observations in which Bi was 
concerned ; to whichs wonderful humi. 
lify of Maire's the Cardinal acquiesced. 
Oh it is a pity that F. Maire had not some 
spirit for the credit of our Province and Na- 
tion ! He is a man, who perhaps has no 
his equal on many accounts." And yet at 
the recompence he received for this meri- 
torious labour was a present of 12 copies of 
his own Map /// In March 1757, he left 
ungrateful Rome for St. Omer, and thence 
retiring to Ghent, he died amongst his bre- 
thren, to whom he was justly endeared by 
his incomparable merits, 22 February, 1767, 
set. 70. In a letter written from Rome, 21 
March that year, F. Thorpe thus expresses 
himself, "Poor Christopher Maire ! I have 
often regretted his quitting Rome, and never 
expect to see his equal come again. His 
primitive candour of mind, with even one 
tenth part of his knowledge, will at any lime 
form a very amiable character." 

Maire, Edward, son of George Maire 
who sold the Estate of Hartbushes, (the 
elder brother of F. Christopher Maire) by 

his wife sister of Giles Hussey, of 

Marnhull, Esq., born 18 November, 1725. 
admitted into the Society in 1742, and be- 
came a Professed Father in 1760. He died 
in the house of his elder brother John, a 
Druggist in Holborn, London, 13 April, 
1797. 

Maire, George : brother of Edward, 
born 21 March, 1738 : admitted into the 
Novitiate, in 1754 : was Minister in the 
English College at Rome, and " to him " 
says Sir Henry Lawson in a Letter to me, 
dated Brough Hall, 18 September, 1S31, 

with the greatest gratitude 1 express my 
obligation for the pains he took in my edu- 



cation, during ray five years abode there, 
when ray health did not allow me to attend 
the Public Schools, R.T.P." Leaving the 
College for the English Mission, he settled 
at Aston, in Staffordshire, where he died of 
the Stone in 1796. 

Maire, James, born 26 March, 1705: 
admitted at the age of 20. 1 meet with him 
as Prefect of Studies at St." Omer, ia 1739. 
On 2 February, 1743, whilst a Missionary 
in England, he made his Religious Profes- 
sion, and there he died 25 February, 1746. 

Maire, Petkr, brother I think of James 
and Christopher : was born 28 July, 1707 ; 
admitted in 1726. Professed in 1745. 
Whilst Confessor to the Nuns at Vork, was 
unfortunately drowned in bathing in the 
Ouse, 24 July, 1763. (His brother Henry, 
a worthy Secular Priest, and Chaplain at 
Cliff, in the County of York, died 5 No- 
Tember, 1775.) 

Maiue, Thomas, born 18 April, 1705 : 
admitted in 1720: Professed 2 February, 
1738 ; for atirae served the Mission of Gates- 
head, but finished his mortal course at Leices- 
ter 3 Tecember, 1752. 

Manners, (alias SimcccJcs,) John, born 
in London in 1609. When he had finished 
his humanities at St. Omer, and his Novice- 
ship at Watten, he proceeded to Rome. In 
progress of time, he was appointed to teach 
Philosophy at Perugia : at the end of his 
course returned to Rome, where, in the Eng- 
lish College, he filled the office of Prefect of 
Studies for eight years. He was then de- 
clared Rector, but within a year accepted 
the situation of Penitentiary at Loretto . In 
1667 he was ordered to the English Mission, 
where he was still living nine years later, 
after which time he eludes my research. 
We have from his pen, '* The unwearied 
Searcher,'* a small controversial work, in 
Bvo. printed at London in 1670. 

Manners, Mathias, (alias Sittinsper- 
ffer,) born 20 September, 1719, in the Dio- 
cese of Ausburgh; joined the Society at 
Lansperg at the age of 19 : and four years 
later, from his love of Missions, was aggre- 
gated to the English Province. The remain- 
der of his life was dedicated to the cultivation 
of the vineyard of Maryland. In 1755, he 
was there promoted to the rank of a Pro- 
fessed Father. He survived until 15 June, 
1775, when the Gracious God whom he had 
served from his youth, called hira from la- 
bour to his recompence and repose. 

Manners, Peter, died in Maryland, 24 
April, 1669. The annual letters of that 
year inform us that he was a man full of 
the Apostolic spirit— that his decease was 
unexpected — that during the six years he 
had spent in that Mission, he appeared in- 
ured and seasoned to the climate ; but that 
in the midst of his labours and spiritual 
conquests, he was consigned to an early 
tomb, to the deep regret and loss of his peo- 
pie. 

Mannock, Francis, third son of Sir Fran- 



cis Mannock, Bart.* by his lady, Mary 
Heneage, was born 18 October, 1670 ; at the 
age of 16 entered the Novitiate; was ad- 
mitted to the Profession of the Four Vows^ 
21 March, 1704. For a time this venerable 
Father was stationed at Ellingham ; but 
ended his days at York, 21 December, 1748. 

Mannock, George, a relation of Francis. 
He was born July 1, 1724 ; joined the So- 
ciety in 1741 , and became a professed Fa- 
ther 2 February, 1759, and taught Philoso- 
phy at Liege. This Father succeeded to the 
Baronetage ; but was unfortunately killed, 
6 May, 1787, near Dartford, by the Over- 
turning of the Mail Coach. How little do 
we know the time, the place, the manner of 
our exit from this woild ! 

Mannock, John. The Elder was, I be- 
lieve, the third son of the Isi Baronet al- 
ready mentioned. After living eight years 
in the Mission, " veluti Societatis candi- 
datus" he at length enlisted under the ban- 
ner of St. Ignatius, and served for the last 
25 years of his life. He departed to our 
Lord, in the residence of St. Thomas, 25 
June, 1651, at. 68. 

The Junior ( whose real name was 
Petre, a family prolific of Religious 
Members) joined the Order 27 October, 
1680, and was enrolled amongst the 
Professed Fathers eighteen years later. 
He was established as Chaplain with the 
Sheldons, of Weston, where 1 think he 
died 9 August, 1738, set. 77. 

Mannock, Robert, (also a Pe/re^ was 
admitted at Watten in 1686; in due time 
became a Professed Father, and died it 
seems at Ghent 17 July, 1726, set. 60. 

Mansell, John, (vere Talbot J elder 
brother to F. Thomas Talbot, was born in 
Lancashire 27 September, 1708 ; at the age 
of 20 commenced his Noviceship; and took 
his rank amongst the Professed Fathers 2 
February, 1747. For many years he pre- 
sided over his brethren in the College of 
St. Aloysius. For some time he was sta- 
tioned at Liverpool; but for a considera- 
ble time was Chaplain at Lytham Hall, the 
seat of the Clifton Family. This Ornament 
of the Priesthood and Patriarch of his breth- 
ren, retired at length to Walton, near Pres- 
ton, where he finished his lengthened career 
9 June, 1799. 

Mansell, (alias Hardiuq,) Thomas; 
was sent soon after his Ordinations to the 
Maryland Mission, which he zealously cul- 
tivated until his death, 18 March, 1724, aet. 
55. Soc. 38. 

Mansell, William, was admitted into 
the Order in 1686— for some time filled the 
office of Penitentiary at Loretto ; but died 
at St. Omer, 28 August, 1720, set. 5l. 

Manpield, Robert, was son of Count 
Manfield : aggregated himself to the Eng- 
lish Province 24 October, 1669 : was Rec- 

* The elevation of the family to the rank of Baro- 
net, is dated from 1 June, 1637. 



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tor of the English College at Rome, from 
1699 to 1704) ; died at Nanci 21 September, 
170S, BBt. 56. 

March, William, born at Mechlin in 
1616 ; embraced the Institute at the age of 
18 ; took the solema Vows of the Order 
25 November, 1646. After serving the 
English Mission, he was appointed Rector 
of the House of Probation at Ghent, and 
there he died 23 August, 1688. 

*Marim, James.— This useful Temporal 
Coadjutor calmly breathed forth his pious 
soul at Watten, 4 April, 1740, set. 81. Rel. 
47. 

Mark, John, was born in Devonshire, 
A.D. 1621 ; at the age of 19 consecrated 
himself to God in the Society. In 1652 he 
was ordered to the Lancashire Mission, 
where I find him three years later, but can* 
not follow up the clue of his biography. 

AIartin, Henry, the first is mentioned 
in the Annual Letters of 1672, and was con- 
signed to an early tomb. He had commen- 
ced his labours in the residence of St. Tho- 
mas in October that year, and within seven 
days, viz., 26 Oct. was carried off" by a fever. 

The second was living in 1710, and his 
zeal is thus recorded '* In coUegio SS, 
Apostolorum P. Henricus Marlin, licet 
haud parum septuagenario major, susti- 
net unus labores, quibustres plane occupa- 
renturj' Further particulars I search for 
in vain. 

♦Marthe de James— This pious Lay» 
brother was born at Blandecque 30 May, 
1712 ; entered the Order in 1736, and finish- 
ed his earthly course at Ghent 24 August, 
1770. 

Marshall, Joseph, was admitted in 
1708; for some time was stationed at Lo- 
retto as Penitentiary, until he was succeeded 
in that office by F. Atkinson, in the Autumn 
of 1723. His merits obtained for him the 
rank of a Professed Father three years later. 
BVom the English Mission he was summoned 
to Rome to be Rector of the English Col- 
lege, which he governed from November, 
1734, to June, 1738. He died in that city 
9 July, 1739, set. 57. 

Marshall, Matthew, was certainly re- 
siding in Rome at Michaelmas 1580. 

Marshall, Peter, of Derbyshire ; joined 
ho Society in 1623, when commencing his 
Missionary career. On 5 July, 1632, was 
admitted to his Religious Profession, and 
died in June, 1655, ajt. 64. 

Marshall, Thomas. — F. Hen. More 
informs us (p. 21 of Ilist. Prof. Angl.) that 
when in Priests' Orders, and a Doctor of 
Theology, he entered the Society at Louvain. 
After teaching Philosophy at Douay for 
nine years, he was called to Rome to be Con- 
lessarius in the English College, ^e had 
scarcely reached his destination when he 
was attacked with a dangerous illness; and 
after making the solemn Religious Profes- 
sion he calmly expired22 July, 1589. Fer- 
tur tnoriens, cum Crucifixi complectere- 
2 K. 



tur effigiem^freqHenler in hcee verba pror- 
upisse; Quid sunt o bone Jesu, heec vul~ 
nera tua, nisi peecata mea ?" 

Mashter, Francis, died in England 24 
September, 1723, set. 44. Rel. 22. 

Massey, Francis, one of this name , a na- 
tive of Lancashire, entered the Novitiate in 
1664; but I am unable to glean further in- 
formation. 

The other, of the same County, born in 
Feb. 1782, was nay fellow Collegian at 
Stonyhurst. He succeeded F. George 
Clarkson at Slatedelf, or South-Hill, near 
Chorley; and there this zealous and inde- 
fatigable Priest was prematurely snatched 
away by death 15 Aug. 1822, Soc, 19. 
Who liveth well, can never die too soon. 
His sun shall rise again, that set at noon. 

Massey, {Hodges) John, born 21 No- 
vember, 1698. In the sequel Sussex became 
the theatre of his Apostolic labors. His 
pious life was crowned with a happy death, 
I think at West Grinstead, 10 January, 
1760. Soc. 43. Prof. 25. 

*MAssEy, Ralph, — This Temporal Co- 
adjutor died at Ghent 23 September, 1756, 
eet .47. Soc. 4. 

Matthews, Francis. — He was a native 
of Liege and of the Matagon Family; but 
was educated in the English Province of 
the Society, and became a most valuable 
member. He possessed superior talent as a 
Catechist ; and his zealous andeflScient ser- 
vices to the Prisoners in London are hon- 
ourably recorded in the Annual Letters of 
1654. This good Father died at Ipres, a 
victim of charity in attending the Infected, 

8 November, 1667, in the 60th year of his 
age, Soc, 32. Prof. 17. 

Matthews, John, admitted at Watten, 

9 October, 1677 ; departed to Our Lord in 
the Maryland Mission 19 December, 1694, 
at the early age of 36, 

Matthews, Ignatius, born in Maryland 
25 January, 1730, joined the Society in 
1763, after finishing his Theological course. 
His destination was his native country, 
which he enlightened by his learning and the 
bright example of his virtues, until his hap. 
py death at Newtown, 11 May, 1790. 

Matthews, Peter, born 2 September, 
1692; at the age of 19 consecrated himself 
to God in Religion; and at the usual period 
took his station amongst the Professed Fa- 
thers. For a time he was Professor of 
Holy Scripture at Liege ; on the Mission he 
often passed by the name of Nevill. At 
Christmas, 1748, he succeeded F. Carpen- 
ter at Brin, in Lancashire, and died at Gars- 
wood 13 January, 1752. 

Matthews, Stephen, (vere Swindell,) 
was admitt&d a Novice 7 September, 1696, 
set. 18, but I search in vain for further par- 
ticulars. 

Matthews, Sir Toby, eldest son of Dr. 
Toby Matthews, Archbishop of York,* by 
his wife Frances, daughter of Dr. Wm. 

» This Prolato died 29 March, 1628, est. 83, 



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Barlow, the notorious Bishop of Chichester, 
was born at Oxford in 1579. Disabused 
of his prejudices against the Catholic re-, 
ligion by F. Robt. Persons, he was recon- 
ciled to the church at Florence, and made 
his first Confession to F. Lelio Ptoloraei, 
an eminent preacher, S. J. in the Lent of 
1614 Anthony Wood, p. 120, Vol. II, 
Atbense Oxon. expressly asserts that the 
young convert " entered himself into the 
Society of Jesus; but whether he took holy 
Orders, is yet to me uncertain." When 
and where he associated himself to the In- 
stitute of St. Ignatius I cannot discover; 
but it is an indisputable fact that he took 
Holy Orders from the hands of Cardinal 
Bellarmine, viz. Minor Orders 4 May, 1G14; 
Sub-Deaconship on the 11th; Deaconship 
on the l9th ; and Priesthood on the 20th 
day of the same month and year* " Omnes 
simul cum D. Georgia Gage, uti constat 
tx^ Literis patentibus subscriptis ah illo 
Emo, Card, Bellarmino, quas veneror 
ob memoriam S. Vivi, et hic {in Romano 
CoUegio) asservantur." This I find in a 
M.S. note written at Rome about the year 
1690. 

Returning to England, this worthy gen- 
tleman, (whose Priesthood, in those dan- 
gerous timeswas Ijepta profound secret) had 
to endure much both frooa his family and 
from the government ; but at length was re- 
ceived into favor ; and even was honored 
with Knighthood, by his Sovereign, at Roys- 
ton, 10 October, 1623. King Charles I. 
continued to him his royal protection and 
confidence. During the Civil "Wars, pru- 
dence dictated to the Rev. Knight the ne- 
cessity of retiring abroad. He chose Ghent 
for his residence, and as Wood expresses it 

he concluded his last day 13 October, 
1655, in the house of the Third Proba- 
tion of the English Fathers of the Society of 
Jesus, and was buried in a vault under the 
Church belonging to them. On his coffin 
of wood was a leaden Plate fastened, \»ith 
this written thereon : — 

" Hic JACET D. Tobias MAxxHiEi." 

To the English Mission of the Society, 
** Missioni Anglicance nostrce Societatis," 
as I read in the above mentioned M.S. note 
this benefactor of religion gave eleven thou- 
sand Scudijor more, of Roman money — and 
that the sum was laid out in buying the 
vineyards of Magliana,andhousesand other 
property about Rome. 

Five years after this donation, he con- 
firmed it, and publicly declared, that it was 
given for the maintenance of the Masters 
and Instructors, no less than for the main- 
tenance of Students preparing for Holy Or- 
ders, and the Mission. This he did in con- 
futation of some busy persons, who had re- 
ported, that his intentions had not been 
fulfilled. 

Sir Toby M. was a man of noted frankness , 
and integrity — of solid judgment and deep 
penetration, and well acquainted with the 
cbaraeter of statesmen and men in power, 



and with the feelings of the Nation : so 
that Mr. Dodd ought to have given him 
more credit for the opinions *he avowed on 
certain debatable questions during very 
critical and eventful periods. 

We have from Sir Toby's pen : — 
\." A Rich Cabinet full of Spiritual 
Jewells," a translation from the Spanish 
of Dr. John Avila, 4to. pp. 584. A.D. 
1620. 

2. St, Austin's Confessions " 8vo. 
Wood, p. 121, Vol. II. Athense, &c., states 
that it sold in 1624 (about which time it 
was printed) for sixteen shillings a copy. 

There is a copy in the Stonyhurst Library 
of ihe Second Edition, printed at Paris : in 
1638, pp.614. 

3. " The Flaming Heart, or Life of St» 
Theresa," dedicated to Queen Henrietta 
Maria; 8vo. Antwerp, 1642 ; pp.666. 

4. " A Missive of consolation sent from 
Flanders to ihe Catholics of England." 
8vo. Louvain, 1646, pp. 380- 

5. " The Penitent Bandilto, Troilo 
Savelli," 12mo, 1663. 

He also translated into Italian " The 
Essays" of Francis Lord Bacon.* Prefixed 
to his letters in the Cabala, edited in 1660, 
in Duodecimo, is the Portrait of the Rev. 
Knight by J. Gammon. 

Matthews, William, I learn from a 
letter of the late F. N. Sewall, addressed to 
me 25 November, 1831, that this Mr. Mat- 
thews tvas born in Maryland, studied in the 
English College at Liege, and returning to 
his native Country, took holy orders there, 
that with his own property, at the re- 
establishment of the society, he built a 
Chapel, a Missionary house, and a house 
for Novices altogether, in Washington, 
three miles from George Town, Of this 
generous Benefactor, 1 can add no further 
particulars.' 

N.B. The Novitiate I understand, is now 
removed to White Marsh, about 20 milts 
from George Town. 

Mattingley, .Tohs, was born in Blary- 
land, 25 January, 1745, reached St. Omer^s 
College, 4 January, 1760, entered the No- 
vitiate in 1766 : after thesuppression of his 
Order, became travelling Tutor to Sir 
William Gerard, and others of our Catholic 

* We much regret, that the lat© Charles Butler, 
Esq. did not print the original account of Sir Toby 
Matthews' Conversion, as written by himself, j4to. 
pp. 234, instead of that meagre and defective Nar- 
rative, which he published from the Coghlan Press, 
in 37 pages, A. D. 1795. In his letter to me dated 
London 14 May, 1830, he begins" I am sorry to h» 
obliged to say, that after every enquiry and search, 
I cannot discover the MS. of Str Toly Matthews. 
>?vhich I mentioned to you and hoped to send you, 
I recollect it extremely well. If hereafter I should 
put my hands upon it, 1 -will certainly send it to 
you." 

It appears that this Lord Bacon undertook to re- 
convert. Sir Toby to the Protestant Religion, who 
j ustly observes that his Lordship was in very truth 
a prodigy of wit and knowledge— that there was 
not such company in the whole world; but proved 
himself "such a poor kind of creature in those things 
which were questionable about Religion, that my 
wonder takes away all roy words." 



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gentry. He was justly esteemed for his 
elegance of manners, literary attainments, 
and solid virtues. To the regret of his 
numerous friends, this excellent man was 
suddenly attacked with illness whilst on a 
visit to the Grainger Family, at Causes 
town, in Ireland, and calmly ceased to 
breathe 23 November, 1807. 

♦Maurice, Francis. This promising 
lay brother was a native of Wales: and 
died at Ghent, 2 November, 1645, set. 33 
Soc. 9. 

Maynard, John, of London, became a 
member of the Order at the age of 21, and 
was admitted to his solemn Vows, 5 March, 
1634. After serving the English Mission 
nearly 40 years, he rested from his labors, 
27 March, :668, aet. 69. 

♦Maynard, Richaud, died at Watten, 
30 March, 162G, I suspect very young. 

Mehcer, Thomas, born at Crosby, near 
Liverpool: studied at Liege and attained 
considerable reputation as a Mathematician. 
He never took Holy Orders. Falling into 
a consumption, he returned to England for 
the beaefitof his health, and actually died at 
Wardour 24 Jan. 1793, set. 39. His re- 
mains were deposited in the Chancel of Tis- 
bury Church, 

Mercer, William, elder brother of the 
aforesaid Thomas, was born 21 August, 
1739: entered amongst the Novices in 1755; 
and became one of the ablest Scholars and 
Theologians in the English Province. He 
died prematurely at Liege 1 August, 1777. 

*Mercikr, Laurence. This native of 
Liege was admitted for a lay-brother 23 
September, 172S. His course was short ; 
for he passed into eternity at St. Oraer 
7 July, 1740, Eet. 33. 

Meredith, RrcHARD : born 9 February, 
1696: entered himself among tlie Novices 
in 1716, and was placed on the roll of Pro- 
fessed Fathers in 1734. I meet with him 
first as chaplain in the Tichbourne Family, 
Hants, and subsequently at Little Paunton, 
in Lincolnshire. Retiring to St. Omer, he 
there gave up his soul to God 26 October, 
1754. 

Messenger, John, third son of John 
Messenger of Fountaines Abbey, in York- 
shire, Esq , by his wife Margaret Scroope, 
dedicated himself to God in the Society in 
1708: and was admitted to the solemn 
Profession of the Four Vows eighteen years 
later. For many years he was the Pastor 
at Burwallis in his native County, and there 
he surrendered his soul to its Creator 4 
June, 1752, aet, 64. 

Melcalfy Philip, see Laylon, 
Metcalf, William, was born either in 
Lancashire or Yorkshire, and was one of 
the earliest Alumni of the College atSeville. 
According to F. Hen. More, p,286. Hist, 
Prov. Angl. he bad scarcely finished the 
first year of his Noviceship, when he was 
called away " ad piorum de side rot rum 
preemia,'' about the year 1600. 



Mettam, Francis. All that I can 
gather is, that his death occurred in England 
7 April, 1681. 

Mettam, Thomas. This very learned 
and holy Priest, and one of the first Mis- 
sionaries from Douay College, was, at his 
earnest petition, admitted into the Society, 
4 May, 1579. See the beautiful letter ad- 
dressed to him, by F. Everard Mercurian, 
the 4th General of the Order, in pp. 140-1 
of More's History. For 17 longyeais (4 in 
the Tower of London, the rest at Wisbick,) 
the venerable man endured the loss of liberty 
for the Catholic Faith, On 28 June, 1592 

ad minus sexagenarius'' after a very short 
illness, he exchanged his prison at Wisbick, 
for Paradise, assisted by his Superior and 
fellow captive, F.W.Weston. Mr. Dodd, 
p. 109. Vol. 11 Church History, is strangely 
confused and incorrect, in his notice of this 
glorious Champion of Religion. 

*Metz, de John, born in Flanders, in 
1603: at the age of 30 was received into 
the Older. I meet with him at Rome, in 
1655, as Socius to the Procurator F. John 
Smith : perhaps he ended his days in that 
City. 

Meynell, James, entered the Novitiate 
in 708 : thirteen years later, was admitted 
a Spiritual Coadjutor: served the Ponte- 
fract Mission, where, 1 think, he finished 
his earthly course, 16 December, 1746, aet. 
57. 

Meynell, Thomas, second son of Roger 
Meynell, of Kilvington, Esq., by his wife 
Barbara Selby, was born Michaelmas day, 
1737 : joined the Order at the age of 19. 
This respected Father died very suddenly 
at Dr. Nihells's house, in London, 1 Feb- 
ruary, 1804, and was buried at St. Pancras. 

Meynell, William, was born near 
Yarum, 3 May, 1744, and entered the Novi- 
tiate in 1761. Ten years later I find him 
at Bruges, teaching Rhetoric, and filling the 
important office of Prefect of Studies. For 
some time he served the Mission of Eccles- 
ton and Ellinghara, and had the opportunity 
of improving his taste and abilities, by tra- 
velling with several of our Catholic Gentry, 
through most parts of Europe. His friend. 
Dr. Carroll, in a letter 4 October, 1790, to 
Henry, 8th Lord Arundell, describes him 
as "a well informed Gentleman, and parti- 
cularly in the fine Arts." Having faithfully 
devoted a long life to the service of Reli- 
gion, he died the death of the Righteous at 
Richmond, near London, 16 September, 
182G. 

•Michell, Christopher. This Tem- 
poral Coadjutor had scarcely finished his 
probation at Louvain, 29 April, 1614, 
when he was attacked by fever to which he 
fell a victim, 17 May, that year. 

Mico, Edward see Harvey. 

Middlehurst, see Ashby, James. 
MiDDLETON, Charles, enlisted under 
the banner of St. Ignatius, 20 July 
1687. It seems that he passed the greater 



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part of his life at Ghent, where he ended 
his days, 29 May, 1743, at the advanced 
age of 83. 

MiDDLETON, Peter, born in Hants 1601, 
at the age of 28 placed himself am ongst the 
Novices, and after taking the simple Vows, 
was ordered to the English Mission, where 
I still find him in 1655 ; after which time 
I can trace him no longer. 

MiLDMAY, Matthew. Owing to the 
loss or absence of Documents, I regret my 
inability to state any other particulars, than 
that he was labouring in the residence of 
St. Stanislaus, in the commencement of the 
seventeenth Century, and that his death hap- 
pened 6 March, 1713. 

Miles, or Milles, Francis. The Elder 
is mentioned in p. 267 of F. M ore's History, 
as having been begotten to the Society, by 
the industrious zeal and tact of F. Roger 
Lee, when giving the Spiritual exorcises of 
its holy founder, at St. Omar's. This F, 
Miles closed a pious life, by a happy death 
in England, 17 December, 1653. 

The Junior was certainly at Ghent in 
1690, and distinguished himself by his 
charitable services and attentions to the 
English and Scotch Soldiery. He died 
at Loretto, 16 December, 1693^ set. 44, 
Soc. 21. 

Milet, John. He became a convert at St. 
Janeiro, and after embracing the Society, 
adopted the name of Vieyra. Ordained 
Priest, his zeal for souls led him toembrace 
the Missionary life in Paraguay ; but he 
was drowhed, ad ostium Fluminis Dulcis 
in proflueuti, about the year 1750, Soc. 12. 

•MiLLEGATE, WiLLiAM, a temporal Co- 
adjutor, who died at St. Omer, 9 November, 
J702. 

MoLiEV, Ebard, actually born in France 
24 January, 1701. After passing his 
Noviceship, this Spiritual Coadjutor was 
chiefly employed at St. Omer's College, 
where he departed to our Lord, 1 4 September, 
1761, Soc. 4L 

MoLiEN, John, brother I think of the 
above, was born 6 January, 1703 : eighteen 
years later commenced his Noviceship, and 
was received as a Professed Father at Lon- 
don, 2 February, 1739. He survived the 
suppression of the Order ; died in France, 
about the year 1777. 

MoLYNEUX, Henry, born 10 September, 
1693: joined the Order in 1713: made a 
Spiritual Coadjutor, 2 February, 1724 : 
served the Sussex Mission for some time ; 
but died at Red Hill, Surry, I August. 1771, 
MoLYNEUx, Joseph, born 25 February, 
1732; admitted a Novice at the age of 20: 
died at Slindon, 3 September, 1778. 

MoLYNEUX, Richard. — The senior was 
l)orn 10 March, 1696; entered the Society 
at the age of 19 : for a short time was sta- 
tioned at Gateshead ; was Professed in 
Mary land, 13 June, 1734, where two years 
later he was appointed Superior of that 
Mission: Returning to England, he was 



Chaplain at Marnhull for a time ; thence 
removed to Bonham, near Wardour, where 
he died 17 May, 1766. 

The junior was born 3 May 1700; at the 
age of 22 devoted himself to God in the So- 
ciety; was formed a Spiritual Coadjutor 
15 August, 1733; and happily ended his 
mortal course at Marnhull 5 June, 1769, 
where I meet him 25 November, 1755. 

MoLYNEux, Robert, born at Fornby, or 
thereabouts, in Lancashire, 24 June, 1738; 
admitted a Novice in 1757. Soon after his 
promotion to Priesthood, he went to Mary- 
laud, and was so distinguished for his solid 
piety and the zealous labours of his pastoral 
charge, that Bishop Carroll wished to as- 
sociate him in the duties of his Episcopal 
Office; but the humble Priest prevailed on 
his Lordship to abandon that intention. 
When the Society was restored in America, 
in 1806, he was among the very first to press 
forward and join its standard. He died 
Superior of his Brethren, and President of 
George Town College, 9 December, 1808. 

MoLlTNEUX, WiLLTAM.— Of thesc two 
Fathers, the elder lived to become Viscount 
Sefton. In 1704 he had renounced, as far 
as depended on him, all worldly honours and 
fortune, to become a member of the Society; 
ICighteen years later he was enrolled amongst 
the Professed Fathers of the Order. On 1 
August, 1728, he was declared Rector of his 
Brethren in the College of St. Aloysius, and 
held that office until February, 1734, when 
a successor was appointed in the person of 
his noble friend and confrere, F. Gilbert 
Grey, the Earl of Shrewsbury. Scholes, 
near Prescot, was the only Mission served 
by this pious and venerable Lord ; and here 
he was called to the recorapence of his la- 
bors 30 March, 1769, set. 74. His remains 
were conveyed to the family vault at 
Seftou ; and the sale of his effects, at Scboles , 
took place 21 May following, as I find by 
the Inventory. He was succeeded in the 
title and estates by his nephew Charles 
William, who nine years later abandoned 
the Creed of his Forefathers. 

The younger was brother to F. Robert M. 
above-mentioned; was born 1 February, 
1726, consecrated himself to God in the So- 
ciety 1748, was ordained Priest at Liege 
13 June, 1756; promoted to the rank of 
a Professed Father 2 Februar]r,1767, served 
Ince-Blundell Mission, then Stonyhurst, 
and lastly Brinn, where he died 30 April, 
1789. 

Molshaw, Jotin, of Northamptonshire, 
In the Provincial's Report, in 1655, he is 
stated to be then 70 years old, of which pe- 
riod he had spent 38 years in the Society, 
and 41 in the Mission. 

*MoNA, William. — A Temporal Coad- 
jutor who died at Liege, 12 November, 
1747, aet. 42. Rel. 12. 

*MoNROY, Maximilian; admitted 7 
May, 1689; died at Liege 14 May, 1702, 
set. 43. 



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MoNTFORD, Joseph, (alias Armstrong, 
John) of Northumberland, died 30 Decem- 
ber, 1660, set. 68. Rel. 39. Prof. 28. 

More, Christopher Cressacrb, son of 
Thomas More, of Barnboro' in Yorkshire, 
by his wife Catharine Gilford, was born 10 
IVlay, 17S9; at the age of seventeen entered 
the Novitiate; was ordained Priestat Liege 
in 1754; died in Bath in November, (ac- 
cording to F. Scarisbrick's account, on the 
21st; F. Strickland's on the 27th; Cogh- 
lan's Directory on the 29lh,) 1781. 

More, Francis. — I meet with two mem- 
bers of this name; one admitted in 1684. 
Bet. 18— the other in 1718. set. 20. One of 
these died 19 September, 1727. 

More, Henry. Born in Essex, A.D. 
1586.— Dodd, p. 120, Vol. HI. Church 
Hist, fasserts that he became a Jesuit in 
Spain, in 1607 ; the fact is, that he entered 
the English Novitiate of St. John's, at 
Lonvain, 19 November that year, set. 21. 
I find moreover by a letter written from 
Louvain, I August, 1614, that "on the 
preceding Monday F. More defended his 
whole Divinity with good satisfaction." 
Shortly after this defension, he was ordered 
lo the English College of St. Alban, in Val- 
ladolid, and was there appointed Minister. 
In the projected removal of the Novitiate 
from Louvain to Liege, F. John Gerard 
was anxious to secure the services and co- 
operation of F. More, In his letter of 12 
September, 1614, he thus represents to the 
Superior, F. Thomas Owen, at Rome, the 
literary acquirements of his Rev. Friend : 
"F. Henrie More hath French well, Dutch 
prettily, Italian sufficiently, besides Spanish 
very well, and Latin, as I would wish him." 
His request was granted. Possession of 
the premises at Liege was taken the 1st of 
November, 1614 ; and the following sum-, 
raer saw F. More there. It appears how- 
ever, that in the begining he disappointed 
the expectations of his Colleagues in the 
new establishment. He was naturally 
cautious, phlegmatic, sparing of his words, 
avaricious of his time, and of very retired 
habits. And F. Gerard in a letter of 23 
March, 1616, acquaints the above-mentioned 
Superior, that F. More had no talent for 
speaking, iho* his memory was excellent, 
and though he possessed a facility of writ- 
ing in his study," but that he will eventual- 
ly, be ripe and qualified for government. 
Sent to the mission he laboured in the vine- 
yard for 25 years. I suspect he was chap - 
lain to William, the 2nd Lord Petre, whose 
edifying death he has left recorded in p. 
467, of his history. That he was Chaplain 
to his son and successor Robert, Lord Petre, 
that special friend and benefactor of the 
English Province, is established by F. 
Richard Blount's letter, dated London, 27 
August, 1632, to Mutius Vitelleschi, the 
0th General of the Society. In some letters 
I observe he is called Talman, probably 
from his stature. As early as 12 May, 

2l 



1622, he had been admitted to the Profession 
of the Four Vows ; and the long proofs he 
had exhibited of judgment, wisdom, and so- 
lid virtue, recommended him as a fit succes- 
sor to F. Blount, in the office of Provincial. 
For six years he discharged its various du- 
ties, and in very difficult times, with singu- 
lar ability, and credit. In the MS. Letters 
of Conn, and Rosetii,Dr, Lingard discovered 
that F, Hen. More wasliberaled from Prison, 
in July, 1640, to which he had been com- 
mitted for his services to Religion " imprig- 
ionato per aver falte molti cose in bene- 
ficio delta Religione Catholica." In the 
sequel he was twice declared Rector of St. 
Omer's College, viz, from 1649 to 1652, and 
again from 1657 to 1660. Retiring to Wat - 
ten, this most and most pious and learned 
Father closed an honourable and useful life, 
dying of Apoplexy, 8 December, 1661> set. 
75. 

We have from his pen:-— 

1. " .4 Manuel of Meditations" trans- 
lated from the Spanish of F. Villacastin, of 
Valladolid. St. Omer, 1618 ; re-printed in 
1623. 

2. " On the Happiness of the Religious 
StatCf" a translation from the Latin work 
ofF. Jerome Flatus, a Milanese Jesuit, 4to. 
Rouen, 1632, pp. 6l3. 

3. " Vita et Doctrina Chrisli Domini 
in Meditationes quotidianas per annum 
digesta." 12mo. Antwerp, 1649. pp. 617. 

This book is unnoticed by Dodd. The 
faculty for printing it was granted by the 
Provincial, Henry Silisdon, 19 April, 1649. 
It was "printed in English, 8vo. at Ghent, 
1656. 

4. " Historia Missionis Anglieance 
S. J." Folio. St. Omer, 1660, pp. 518. 
Tho' in elegance of diction it may rank be- 
low the classic histories of the Order by 
Orlandini, Sacchini, Jouvency and Cordara, 
still it yields to none in candor, fidelity and 
unction. The continuation of his history 
from 1635, the year he finishes, until the 
Suppression of the Province in 1773, is a 
grand desideratum. 

More, Henry. — All that I can glean of 
him amounts to this : be became Coadjutor 
Forraatus Spiritualis 8 September, 1697: 
was at Ghent in 1701 and 1704, and died 
in Kent 1 January, 1730. 

More, HippoLiTE, born in France 23 
March, l<fel : entered the Society 4 Sept . 
1823. Wikh a chosen band of Brethren, he 
sailed in the Cororaandel, from the Mother 
Bank, Isle of Wight 31 May, 1814, and 7 
October reached their destination, Calcutta. 
On 1 July following, they opened Schools in 
their New College of St. Francis Xavier, 
in that City. Removing 14 January, 
1841, to a much more convenient and eligi - 
ble Mansion, on the Chowringhee Road, F. 
More was declared Rector in the sequel, 
but his government was short; for 29 
October, 1843, to the deep regret of the 
Community and the Public, he was carried 
off by death. 



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More, Richard. — Admitted 7 Septem- 
ber, 1693, set. 21. Whilst on the Lanca- 
shire Mission in 1704, he was admitted a 
Spiritual Coadjutor. At wliat time he re- 
moved to Holy- well I am unable to discover. 
He died 6 May, 1753, at the advanced age 
ofSl; 

More, Thomas, brother of F. Henry 
More the Historian. A MS, note informs 
me that he was of a good Family in Cam- 
bridgeshire, and a descendant of the great 
Sir Thomas More" In 1631 he was ad- 
mitted an alumnus of the English College at 
Rome. After finishing his studies and re- 
ceiving Holy Orders there, he was sent to 
England in 1610, and the next year joined 
the Society. " He continued a most la- 
borious Missioner, chiefly amongst the 
poorer sort of people : he never used a 
horse, but performed his journies on foot. 
At length, apprehended and brought to trial, 
he was sentenced to banishment. Retiring 
to Ghent, he died 2 January, 1623, set. 37, 
Rel. 12, 

We have from his pen an English version 
of F. William Warford's " B rev is Institu- 
tion" St. Omer, 1617; also of F. John 
Floyd's Latin Dialogue " Deus et Rex.*' 
Cologne, 1620." 

Another Father of this name, elder bro- 
ther ofF, Christopher Cressacre More, 
was the last surviving male descendant of 
Sir Thomas More, and the last Provincial 
of his brethren in England. He was born 
19 September, 1722: entered the Order 21 
July, 1752; became a Professed Father 15 
August, 1766 ; and declared Provincial at 
London 19 July, 1769. The venerable 
man left London for Bath in the summer of 
1793,* where he died 20 May, 1795, and 
was buried in the Chapel, Trenchard Street, 
Bristol. His Epitaph was written by his 
friend the Rev. Charles Plowden. 

A ^ W 

Thomas Morus. Saceidosintegcrrimus 
Pientissimus, Thomae Mori Martyris Magni 
Postremus Abnepos.decessit placidissimo 
Exitu XIII. Calendas Junii A. MDCCXCV. 
Hie Clarissimi Atavi cognominis Sectator 
Rem oranem familiarem tantique Nominis 
Splendorera Religiosae Professioni 
Posthabiiit: Deo obsecutus, Socielati Jesu 
Noroen dedit, in eaque q uadriennium Sociis 
Per Angliam prseesse meruit Post sublatam 
Societatem, opes modicas queis casta 
Pepercerat Religio, partim juvandis 
Bristolli Catholicis , paitim alendis in 
Almo Collegio Missionis Alnmnis, dicavlt. 
Viiit Annos LXXIll ; in Societate Jesu 
Quoadusqueea mansit, annos XXJI. 
■^IVloRE, William, died at Ghent, 20 Sep- 
tember, 1645; but I can glean no particu- 
lars. 

* In a letter from bis colleague F.Talbot, dated 
London, 5 June, 1793, to Lord Arundel], I read 
"Mr. More proposes taking up his residence with 
his sister at Bath for the rest of his days, in conse- 
quence. I have senthim down his effects, particular- 
ly his three famous pictures of Sir Thomas More, 
Bishop Fisher, and Cardinal Pole. The separation 
bears liard upon me, and makes me think myself a 
stranger at home, and yet averse to stirout." 



Morebread, George. F. Hen. More, 
p. 32. Hist, could ascertain only that he 
was a native of Sussex, and that he died at 
Toulouse about the year 1580. 

Morgan, Charles, was admitted 19 
September, 1689, set. 30. 

Morgan, George — All that I know of 
this worthy Father is contained in the fol- 
lowing extract of the Annual Letters of 
1674. " Ex hac Missione S. Thomce Can- 
tuariensis mortuus est nuper, nempe 16 
Dee, S.N, P. Georgius Morganus, vir 
integerrimce vUcb, quique septemdecim 
annis, quibus, in Societate vixit, nullius 
criminis lethalis labem admisit, ut is, 
qui moribundo adstilit testatur, Professio 
quatuor Votorum in proxima Purijicati- 
onis DivcB Virginis festivilatem a Patre 
nostra meritis illius designabatur : verum 
malign&febre correptus, post trium heb- 
domadarum gravem affiicHonem nobi^ est 
ablatiis. In cegritudine singulare omni' 
bus, patienticB exemplitm dedit, plencB que 
in, Divince Voluntatis beneplacUum resig- 
nationis. Intrepidus plane mortem sub- 
ivit, tresque ultimos vitce dies magna 
domesticorum exemplo, continud adDeum 
oratione transegit. Demum saitctissimis 
EcclesicB Sacramentis munitus, placidissi- 
me expiravit.'* 

Morgax, Richard, born in Glamorgan- 
shire 26 February, 1746, admitted 7 Sep- 
tember, 1766: educated at Valladolid : was 
Prefect at Bruges : succeeded F.Nic. Se- 
wall, at Preston, and by his disinterested 
zeal, and conciliatory conduct, greatly ad- 
vanced the cause of Religion. 

His Epitaph in Preston Chapel (St. Wil- 
frid's) explains the rest. It was written 
by the Rev. C. Plowden. 
A ^ 

To the Pious Memory 
Of the Rev. Richard Morgan, late S.J. 
Thirty Years 
Pastor of the Catholic Church in Preston, 
Who " being made the Pattern of the flock from 
the Heart" 1 Peler v 3, 
Was revered in life and lamented in death. 
Ob 9th March, 1S14, aet. 69. 
R. I. P. 

This worthy Priest published a well timed 
discourse delivered in St. Wilfrid's Chapel, 
Prebton,on Sunday 24 July, 1803. Octavo, 
pp. 12, printed by Wm, Addison, of 
Preston, 

Morgan, Robert, (alias Sebastian 
Needkam) son of Robert Needhara, cf 
Hilston,' in Monmouthshire, by his wife 
Susan Morgan. I meet with him at Ghent 
in 1701 and 1704. He was admitted to his 
Religious Profession 31 March, 1709. 
Three years later I find him in Lancashire ! 
was appointed Rector of his Brethren in 
the College of St. Ignatius (where he had 
resided several years) in 1736, and died in 
that office, in London, 4 January, 1743. 
In those troublesome times he had procured 
to^be enrolled amongst the Chaplains to the 
Sardinian Embassy, Lincolns' Inn Fields. 

Morgan, William, admitted 7 Septem- 



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ber, 1689. From being Chaplain to Lord 
Powis. he was called to govern the English 
College at Rome from 1683 to 1686. Two 
years later was appointed Rector of Liege; 
but very soon after this appointment, viz., 
22 August, 1688, was declared Provincial 
To the universal regret of his Brethren this 
excellent Superior was taken off by sickness 
at St. Omer 2S September, 1689, set. 41. 
He wrote the beautiful account of the 
Reign of James IL, beginning Anni Sep- 
tuagessimi Oclavi^ Sfc." 

MoRLEY, Francis, born in the County of 
Durham, in 15S9. At the age of 33 era- 
braced the Institute of St. Ignatius. He 
was living in tl-.e residence of St. John in 
1672, and was looked up to as speculum 
pietalis," and lived to the Patriarchal age 
of 92. We extract from the Annual Letters 
of 1681, the following account of this vener- 
able Father. '* Mensis AugustiQ die cor- 
poris vinculis solutus naturaLi morta est 
P. Franciscus Morlceus, emeritus Senex 
92 annoruntj quorum 55 in Missions 
consumpserat, maturus Ccelo.ubi reposi- 
turn habebat tot meritontm thesaurum, 
quern diutius laborando augere potnisset^ 
nisi hinc inde fiigiendo, consuetum Viven- 
di modum mutando, tKolestissimc in an- 
gulis din latitando, aliisque molestiis e 
persecutione profectis vires ad alijuot 
adhuc annos suffecturas accidi^set.^' 

MoRLEY, George, born in Hants : at the 
age of 23 joinsd the Society : was Professed 
28 August, 1633: after serving the Mission 
26 years, this good Father retired to Liege, 
where he taught Theology with distinction, 
and died there in 1665, aet. 77. 

*MoRLEY, Walter. — I find this Tempo- 
xA Coadjutor first mentioned in a Letter of 
F. Knott, dated St. Oraer's 15 January, 
1627; he arrived at Rome from Flanders 
in May. 1636, to take charge of the Mag- 
iiana vineyard : left again for Flanders 
about two years later, and died in Maryland 
() March, 1641. 

Morris, Christopher, born in Wales 
in 1697 : at the age of 19 joined the Society, 
and became a Professed Father 19 October, 
1642. After filling the chair of Philosophy 
at Liege, he was ordered loSpain; but was 
taken by an English ship and carried to 
Ireland, where he was engaged as a Tutor 
to a Nobleman's son who liiile profited by 
his advice and instruction. Pere Verdier, 
who' met him in Ireland, reports him to the 
General, Vincent Caralfa, 24 June, 1649, as 
*' viv vere religiosus, et eximie doctus in 
Theologicis et Philosophicis disciplinis, 
€t linguarum undecim prcesertim Graces 
peritxis : seit Musicam ; est modeslo 
vultu ; robusld vatetudine'' and he adds 
"in nostrd Provincid paucos similes ha- 
bemus operarios ad omnia, instar illius , 
paratos." It is painful to conclude with 
saying, that I can offer the indulgent Reader 
no further information of this worthy and 
highly gifted Father, excepting that he died 
at St, Omer 1 August, 1667. 



•Morris, Francis, of Norwich. This 
able and very promising Scholastic, died of 
a lingering illness at Preston 14 August, 
1821, ffit. 27, Soc. 8, But a life filled with 
merits, and devoted all to God, can never be 
called short. 

Another Francis Morris at the age of 16 
joined the Society in 1727 ; but I am un- 
able to trace out his subsequent history. 

Morris, John, born in Lancashire 6 
October, 1770. Blest with a disposition to 
piety and a great facility of genius, he was 
received amongst the Benedictines of St. 
Gregory's Convent, at Douay ; but after 
finishing his Philosophy amongst them, he 
pstitioned for admission into the English 
Academy at Liege. This was granted, and 
he made himself a useful member to that es- 
tablishment both there and at Stonyhurst, 
as a Prefect and a Master. Soon after re- 
ceiving Holy Orders his valuable services 
were bestowed on the Worcester Mission, 
where he arrived for the Easter of 1797. 
Here this zealous and most disinterested 
man deserved to be regarded as the " Father 
of the Poor." Naturally bashful and retired 
yet in the circle of his immediate acquain- 
tance, his intercourse abounded with infor- 
mation, and was enlivened and enriched 
with sprightly humour and anecdote. It 
pleased Almighty God to purify his servant 
by a long and painful illness, which he en- 
dured with edifying patience, resignation, 
and fortitude, lie was released from his 
sufferings about 4 P.M. on Sunday 3 Octo- 
ber, 1830; and was buried in the Cemetery 
of the New Chapel, R.I. P. with this Epitaph: 

A ^ W 

Joanni Morris Sacerdoti 
Qui propter ingenium, doctrinam, oris 
Facundiam 
Probatus wiiversis. 
Annos XVIll cegrotavit^ 
Tcedia et Dolores acerbissimos 
Forli animo semper sustinuit. 
Vixit annos LX, menses XI, Dies X, 
Decessit V. non. Octob. Annos 
MDCCCXXX 
CallegcB religiosissimo 

Eidemquede Egenis 
Supra quam credi potest 
Bene merit o 
F.C. 

Josephus Tristram Sacerdos 
Pietatis Causd 
R. L P. 

Morris, James, admitted in 1699, In 
the Annual Letters of 1710, he is described 
as a free Missionary in London, and labour- 
ting like an Apostle. He died 2 August, 
1715, jet. 41. 

Morris, PrTsn, horn 8 March, 1743: 
became a Novice in 1760: died in the 
Maryland Mission 19 December, 1783, In 
the Printed list he his incorrectly J. Morris. 

*MoRRi3, Walilr, of whom I learn 
only, that he died in Maryland. 



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Morse, Henry. — From the Piovincial 
Catalogue of 1642, I collect ihat he was 
born in Norfolk, A.D. 1595— that be finished 
his studies in the English College at Rome, 
(which he entered in i6lS) — that in the 
English Mission he usually passed by the 
name of Claxton, and that he was admitted 
into the Order at the age of 30 ; and Profes • 
sed 23 April, 1637. During the great 
plague that raged in London and its environs, 
in 1636, he offered himself, with two other 
Fathers S, J., a sacrifice to God for the as- 
sistance of his suffering fellow-creatures. 
"He got the infection says F. Martin Green, 
(p. 52 Account of the Jesuits Life and Doc- 
trine) but recovered; and was afterwards, 
in the time of the long Parliament, executed 
at Tyburn for a Priest and Jesuit. So God 
disposed, that his charitable labors should 
at length be crowned with a glorious death." 
This to him most joyful event occurred 1 
February, 1645; and his relics were said to 
be eflBcacious '■^contra Energumenos." See 
his Life and Portrait in the " Certamen 
Triplex." Read his Acts also in F. Tanner's. 
Work, and in Challoner's faithful IMemoirs. 
Mr. Dodd, p. 120, Vol. HI. Church Hist, 
calls him Moss, 

Morton, William, born in Worcester- 
shire in 1597, was admitted at the age of 33 ; 
was living in 1655, and is thus described 
" juvat nostras in AngliA multiplici 
ministerio:' He died I find 2 April, 1667. 

MosELY, Joseph, born 16 November, 
1731 ; admitted in 1748 ; became a Spiritual 
Coadjutor in 1761, three years later I find 
liim a Missionary in Maryland, where he 
continued to labor until his happy deaths 
June, 1787. 

MosELY. Michael, of Lincolnshire, born 
17 August, 1720, was elder brother of 
Joseph, entered the Society in 1739, and was 
Professed at Rome 2 February, 1757, 
" The Assistant of Italy received his Vows, 
FF. Maireand Hunter assisted, and 1 served 
the Mass," says F. John Thorpe. He died 
at Holywell after the suppression of the 
Order, viz., 29 November, 1777. 

MosTYN, Andrew. —Admitted 1 Febru- 
ary, 1691, aet. 28, was employed in Wor- 
cestershire in the early part of the eighteenth 
Century, and I think died there 14 April. 
1709. 

MosTYN, John, brother I take it of 
Andrew, of the family at Talacre. Admit, 
led 18 October, 1693. set. 86. Died in 
England 3 November, 1721 . 

MosiYN, Pierce, entered the Society 5 
January, 1707. Within ten years later 
was formed a Spiritual Coadjutor. Was 
Missionary at Wigan, and I suspect died 
there 29 Aug. O.S. 1735, at 45. 

*!MoucLiN, JoHX.— died at Liege 18 
November, 1674, set. 37. Soc. 14. " Vir 
omnino probus et obediens, atq ; ad pleraq ; 
Coadjutorum ministeria idoneus." — An. 
Litt. 1674. 



MuMFORD, Gervase, died at Brusselfs 
22 March, 1684. 

MuMFOHD, James. — Nothing can be more 
unsatisfactory than Mr. Dodd's notice of 
this able writer (p. 321 Vol. HI. Church 
Hist.) more especially after professing that 
he had F. Nathaniel Southwell's Biblioiheca 
Scriptorum, S.J. to refer to — He was born 
in Norfolk in the year 1606: at the age of 
20 joined ths Society, and made his religious 
Profession 29 September, 1641. The Pro- 
vincial Returns certify that he was of a 
delicate constitution of body — that he had 
passed the highest collegiate offices of the 
Order — that he served the English Mission 
during 26 years — that some years before his 
death (which happened in Eng land 9 March, 
1666) he was apprehended at Xorwich, and 
led round the City in his priestly vestments, 
amidst the scoffs of the rabble, and then 
sent off to Yarmouth, but in consequence of 
a dispute between the two Towns respecting 
their chartered rights, he was remanded to 
Norwich, where after some months' im- 
prisonment, he was enlarged on Bail. F. 
Mumford was distinguished for his charitable 
compassion for the suffering souls in purga- 
tory. To induce the faithful on earth to 
share in his sentiments, he published a 12mo 
Treatise in 1641, at St Omer's, called 
" A remembrance for the living to pray for 
the dead." Hepublished afterwards a Latin 
Treatise *' de misericordid fidelibus de- 
functis exhibendd." 12mo. Liege, 1647. 
the Annual Letters of 1650-1, say that 
William Triessemius, a Printer of Cologne, 
re«printed this woik, and distributed, gratis, 
300 copies, in performance of a Vow. A 
very large edition of " The Remembrance, 
appeared at Paris. The first partis 
employedin proving that there is a purgatory, 
and that the souls are thence deliverable be- 
fore the day of Judoment. This part was 
printed in 1630 in a small 8vo. of 480 pp. 
The second part recommending the living to 
pray for the dead, pp. 138, came out the year 
following. 

We have also from F. Mumford's pen ; — 
A Defence of St, Gregory's Dialogues.''* 
But what will ever stamp his name as a 
controversialist, is " The Question of 
Questions," under the assumed name of 
Optatus Ductor, 4to. Gant, 1658. pp. 483 
pp. 432. Re-printed, l2mo. London, 1686-7. 
pp. 530; and the " Catholike Scripturift. ' 
Gant, 1662. A second edition appeared in 
London, l2mo. 1686, pp. 432. 

A third was published by James Watson, 
Printer to his Majesty's Royal Family and 
Household, Holy-Rood House, Edinbugh, 
8vo. 1687, pp.464. And we have seen a 
4th edition of the " Catholic ScriptiirisV 
12rao. London, 1767. pp. 335. 

Mumford, Joseph, (alias et vere Daniel 
Armstrong,) was admitted 14 August, 1675, 
set. 32, died in England 8 July, 1686. 

i\]U3iF0RD, Thomas, bcrn in Norfolk of 
a respectable family in 1617, His real 



147 



name was Dowries, but he frequently passed 
by the name of Bedingfield. Perhaps his 
mother was of that very ancient and illus- 
trious family. Or. 8 January, 1639, this 
pious youth entered the Novitiate at Watten. 
On 16 January, 1636, he was solemnly Pro- 
fessed in the Order. J he last seven years 
of his life were devoted to the Mission; 
and his services on board the Fleet during 
the War with the Dutch, are nieationed with 
honorinthe Annual Letters of 1672. The 
Duke of York appointed him his Chaplain, 
but in the midst of a Court, he presented the 
model of the interior man and hunnble 
Religious. Apprehended on the malicious 
charges of Titus Gates, he was committed to 
jail,{ho' the Kingdeclared himself satisfied 
of his innocence. At the time of his com- 
mitment he was in a delicate state of health, 
and within a few weeks, viz., 21 December, 
1678, he surrendered his meek soul into the 
hands of God. It appears that he died at the 
Gate -house, and not in Newgate. 

MuMFORD, William, of London : at the 
age of 18 joined the Society. His merits 
recommended him for the dignity of Pro- 
vincial : an ofRce which he held from 16 
February, 1691 until 1697. He was subse- 
quently Rector at Watten for 10 years, and 
died there J3 March, 1712, aet. 83. 

Murphy, MicHiEL. This Rev, Father 
died in Maryland, 8 July, 1759, set. 34, 
Soc. 14. 

*Mu«PHV, Thomas, a devout Scholastic, 
who ended his days at Liege, IdMarch, 
1757, £Bt. 25. Soc. 6. 

xMussoN, John, bornl6November, 1680 ; 
admitted in 1699; professed 18 years later, 
died at Winchester, 20 November, 1755. 

Mussox, Samuel, brotl.er, I believe, of 
John, aforesaid, joined the Society 9 0cto^ 
ber, 1705. Professed 3 August, 172.3. 
Under the nameof Brown heserved for many 
years the Lincolnshire Mission; died in St 
Stephens' Parish, Canterbury, 28 September 
1769, aet. 83. He was the author of a work 
which 1 have not been fortunate enough to 
examine, "a Review of Dr. Middleton's 
Objections to Catholicity." t'. Thorpe, who 
had read it, says, in a letter, that it shows 
considerable ability and research. This 
venerable Father had the repute of being an 
excellent Latin poet. 

*AlusKETT, Thomas, died at St. Omer, 3 
April, 1700, set. 54, Soc. 10, 

AIuTH, Francis, born at Hainburgh in 
Austria, 6 December, 1782: commenced 
the study of Philosophy, at Vienna, which 
he finished at Ddlingen: there began his 
Divinity, which he continued at Rome. In 
1800, he reached England, and 23 May, the 
year following, was promoted to Priesthood 
at Old Hall Green, by the late Bishop 
Poynter. Appointed to the charge of the 
Catholic Germans, in London, hesucceeded 
amidst numberless difficulties, by his inde- 
fatigable zeal and industry, to erect St. 
Boniface's Chapel, within the walls of the 

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Metropolis, and for nearly 27 years exem- 
plified the character of the good Pastor. 
During 21 years of this period he had been 
aggregated to the restored Society of Jesus ; 
for he had joined it as early as 21 February, 
1815. On 15 August, 1834, his merits ob- 
tained his association to the body of the 
Professed Fathers. Recalled from the 
Mission, he was appointed 16 April, 1830, 
Professor of Theology in the Seminary at 
Stouyhurst. The reader will be pleased to 
see the handsome terms in which this wor- 
thy Jesuit has been mentioned by the 
Committee of the German Catholic Chapel, 
p, 350, of Andrew 's Orth. Journal Decem- 
ber, 1838. No one can read his eloquent 
letter (for it is an effusion from the abun- 
dance of his heart) p. 221, April, 1839, of 
the said journal, without being sensibly 
moved. 

This holy and venerable man died at St. 
Ignatius, Preston, at II o'clock of the night 
5 May, 1841, in the midst of his Brethren, 
and was perfectly sensible and resigned, and 
contented to the last. His funeral took place 
on Monday morning the lOth, To this apos- 
tolic Missionary we may apply the charac- 
ter given by St. Jerome to Nepotian. '* Ccb- 
corum baculus, esurientium cibus, spes 
miserorum, solamen lugenliumfuiW^ In 
the said Chapel of St. Bonilace, is a memo- 
rial, thewoik of in white marble, 
thus inscribed : — 

THE REV. FATHER FRANCIS 
MUTH, S. J. 
Was, for nearly thirty years the faithful 

Pastor of the 
German Catholic Congregation in London, 
and constantly exemplified, amidst privations 
difficulties, and humiliations of every kind. 
All the virtues of a Catholic Priest 
And Apostolic Missionary. 
He was born in 1782, in Newstadt, near 
Vienna, in Austria ; 
And closed an edifying life by a holy death 
At St. Ignatius', in Preston Lancashire, 
On 5 May, 1841, 
R. I. P. 

'*And now little children, abide in him, that 
when he shall appear, we may have confi- 
dence, and not be confounded by him at his 
coming." 1 John 11,28. 

This memorial was erected 
To the ever-to-be-reraembered Pastor, 

By his faithful Friends and Children iu 
Jesus Christ 
On 4 April, 1842. 

Nandyke, Thomas, born in England, 16 
December, 1726; entered the Novitiate in 
1745 ; was ordained Priest at Liege, 1752; 
was professed at York, 2 February, 1763 ; 
gave up his soul to God in peace, 17 March, 
1793, at Yarura. 

Natalis, Thomas, was admitted in the 
Professed House at Rome, according to F. 
More, (p. 30. Hist.) 2 October, 1550 j but 
he could not recover further details. 

Neaie, Benedict. Of those two Mary- 



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lanJian Fathers, I fiad the elder was born 
3 August, 1709, joined the Njvices of the 
Society in 1728, became a Professed Father 
in 174G, and after many years died in his 
native country. 

The Younger, born 14 Aug. 1743 ; at the 
age of 17 embraced the Institute, and de- 
parted in peace, in Maryland, 9 June, 1787. 

Neale, ChakLes, was amongst the first 
to re-enter the Society, on its re-establish- 
ment in the United States, A,D. 1806. He 
died Superior of George Town College, 23 
April, 1823. 

Neale, Henry. The first was a Rev, 
Father of the Order, and died in the prime 
of life, in Pensylvania, 5 May, 1748, ffit. 
46. Soc. 24, Pfof. 5. 

*The second was a Temporal Coadjutor, 
who made a most pious end at Watteii, 8 
October, 1754, set. 51, Soc. 10. 

Neale, Leonard. D.D. This holy 
Prelate was born in Maryland, 15 October, 
1747; at the age of 20 embraced the Insti> 
tute of St. Ignatius. From rector of 
GeorgetowD College, he was made Coadju- 
tor to Bishop Carroll, who consecrated him, 
7 December, 1800, by the title of Bishop of 
Gortyna, in Crete. At the death of that 
venerable founder of Episcopacy in the 
United States, 3 December, 1815, Dr. 
Neale succeeded him in the Archbishoprick 
of Baltimore, but within two years he was 
also calledawayby the Prioceof Shepherds, 
to exchange a mitre for a heavenly diadem. 

Neale, Robert, of Lincolnshire ; at the 
age of 31 united himself to the Society, and 
for more thanhalf a ceatury laboured in the 
English Vineyard, where he died full of 
days and merits, 27 February, IGSS, at. 88 
Eel. 57, Prof. 47. 

Neale, William, born in Maryland, 14 
August, 1743; when 17 years of age Piety 
led him to the Novitiate. For some years 
before his death this good Father had the 
misfortune to lose his reason, and it became 
necessary to place him in the Asylum, at 
Manchester, where death released him from 
his misery, 11 December, 1799. 

Needham, Daniel, born 24 June, 1721. 
On the Mission he passed by the name of 
Piatt. From Oct. 1763 to Nov. 1764, he 
occurs Superior of his brethren in the re- 
sidence of St. George. Dying at Worces- 
ter 21 May, 1783, Soc. 42, Prof. 24, his 
remains were deposited in St. Oswald's 
Cemetery. 

Needham, Sebastian, see Morgan, Robt. 

Nelson, Francis.— Born in the Low 
Countries. The Annual Letters of 1675 
inform us, that this most charitable Father 
met his death 28 August, 1675, set. 42, Soc. 
25, Prof. 8. at Brussells,in consequence of 
Lis devoted attendance on the Eno[lish 
soldiers infected with the Plague. They 
add " Vir ita a virtute, doctrind, ingenio, 
prudentid comparatus, ut ad omnia 
Societatis munera idoneus videretur, 
adeoque magnum sui desiderium apud 
omnes reliquerit:' 



Nelsov, John, of Oxfordshire ; died in 
England, after passing 48 years in the Order, 
and 43 in the Mission, 3 November, 1670. 

Nelson, or Newton, James, born in 
London lO June, 1736; at the age of 18 
joined the Society. In declining age his 
patience was perfected by continual in- 
firmities, and liefinished his sacrifice 2 April, 
18J3, at the bouse of his friend the Rev. 
Robert Plowden, at Bristol. 

Nevill, Edmund. There were two Fa- 
thers of this name. To distinguish them 
one is called the Senior, the other the Junior. 
Tha Senior, attbe age of46, and in the year 
1639, became a Novice of the Society, and 
was in Priest's Orders, says F. More, p. 
404. Hist, Prov. Ang. He was of an il- 
lustrious family, and heir to an ample estate, 
" inWestmorlaniHcB Cnmitatu," but he re- 
nounced all to follow Christ. During the 
Cifil Wars, this bed-ridden Father was 
inhumanly dragged from his Chamber by 
the Parliaraentaey troops, shoved into a cart 
and thrown into jail. At the end of nine 
months God called him from the (trison of 
his body at the advanced age of 88. 

The Junior was certainly born in Lanca- 
shire. Some affirm that his family n^me 
was Scarisbrick; but he was admitted into 
the English College at Rome in 1621 by 
the name of Sale. Five years later he ob- 
tained permission to join the Society at 
Rome. After teaching Humanities for some 
years he was ordered to the English Mission, 
where he rendered important services to re- 
ligion by his talents, zeal, and most engaging 
and conciliatory manners. At length he 
wss apprehended and finished his course in 
the jails of London. 18 July, 1648, aet. 42, 
Rel.21, Prof. 7. See his life in Tanner. We 
learn from p. 184 of Southwell's Bibliotheca, 
that he was the author of" The Palm of 
Christian Fortitude, or the glorious com- 
bats of the Christians in Japan," 8vo. 
1630, probably printed at St. Omer. He 
had also prepared for the Press " 7%e Life 
of St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church" 
but which I believe has never been published. 

Neville, Francis. His real name was 
Cotton: was born in Hampshire, in 1595. 
At the age of 21 be entered the Novitiate, 
and never lost his primitive fervour. For 
48 years he cultivated the English vineyard 
" uberrima animarum fructu." At the 
age of 84, when the minds of the people 
were maddened with the delusions of Titus 
Oates, the venerable Father was dragged 
down from his garret, with the utmost bru- 
tality, to be secured in Newgate: but this 
inhumanity served but to hasten the posses- 
sion ot his happiness : for he died a few days 
after his removal, towards the end of Feb- 
ruary, 1679. He had been professed 47 
years. 

Nevill, Charles, of Holt, in Leicester- 
shire, 2nd son ofCosmas Nevill, by his wife 
Lady Mary Lee, daughter of the Earl of 
Lichfield, boru 8 April, 1746. Uader the 



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name of Dillon^ he was entered a Pensioner 
at St. Oraer's 5 September, 1758. In the 
17th year of his age, joined the Society. 
By the death of his elder brother George, 
in 1707, he succeeded to the paternal estate, 
which he gave up to his younger brotlier 
Cosmas. In 1771 I meet with him at Liege 
College. Eleven years later I find him 
there, contributing his quota of the con- 
frratulatory addresses presented by his 
Brethren to Count de Velbruck, Bishop and 
Prince of Liege. His ode commences 
" Audimur f alto Numen ab cethere.'* 
This polite Scholar died at Bristol, 4 April 
1792. to which Mission he was a considera* 
ble benefactor, and was buried in the Chapel 
vault there, 

NicviLi-, Edward. His real name was 
Scarisbrick, of an ancient and most respecta- 
ble family in Lancashire. Perhaps he was 
called Nevill, to distinguish him from a 
Reverend Father of the same Christian and 
Surname. 

He entered the Society, 7 September, 
1660: At the accession of James II. was 
taken from the Mission, to be one of the 
Chaplains and Preachers to his Majesty. 
At the Revolution, he was probably obliged 
to retire abroad for a time; but he died in 
England. 19 February, 1709. I have seen 
his Sermon on " Spiritual Leprosy" de- 
livered on the 13lh Sunday after Pentecost, 
1630, before Q. Catharine, 4to. London, 
1687, pp. 37. and " On Cutholic Loyalty"" 
preached befoie the King and Queen at 
Whitehall, 30 January, 1RS7. He was also 
the author of Lady Warner's life, printed 
in 1690, and again in 1692, with additions, 
8vo. London, pp. 376. I think he published 
" Rules and instructions of the sodality of 
the Immaculate Conception of B.V.Mary ^ 
12mo. 1703, pp. 150. 

N.B. Under this name we may class two 
other Fathers of the Scarisbrick Family, so 
fruitful in members of the Society of Jesus. 

The Senior, Edward, was admitted in 
1682. aged 19: was Chaplain for a time, to 
the Clifton Family, of Clifton, near Notting- 
ham : was afterwards settled at Busby Hall, 
near Walford, Hertfordshire. Obiit 15 
November, 1735, O. S. 

The Junior, ^f/ward, entered the Novi- 
tiate 7 September, 1716, set. 18, was made 
a Spiritual Coadjutor, 18 September, 1729. 
I fjnd that this venerable Father died in 
Lancashire, 7 July, 1778, aet. 80. Profes- 
sionis 38. 

Neville, Thomas, of Essex. After dis- 
tinguishing himself as a Professor of Philo- 
sophy and Divinity, he was admitted to the 
Profession of the Four Vows, 2 August, 
1G35. Owingto the bad siateof his health, 
he was ordered to quit Liege for his native 
Country. He died in London, 17 May, 
N. S. 1662, aet. 64, Rel. 41. 

N.B. F. Thomas Neville ( vere Scaris- 
brickf) admitted in 1664, died 20 January, 
1728. O. S. 



Newby, (or Newburie) Augu&tin, of 

Lancashire ; at the age of 21 was admitted a 
Novice : 24 December, 1654, was ranked 
amongst the Professed Fathers ; died in 
England, 18 January, 1669. 

Newport, Maurice. I meet with two 
of this name, The Senior and Junior.— The 
Senior died I February, 1654. 

Tlie Junior was a native of Somersetshire, 
at the age of 24 joined the Society, for 
several years taught the Classics at St. 
Omer's College, and \>as admitted to his 
Profession,23 November, 1643. For many 
years he served the Mission, and at length 
died in London, the fourth of December, 
1687, aet 76, of which period, he had spent 
half a century in the Order, Yet Mr. 
Bodd, p. 319, Vol. Ill Church Hist, with 
F. Southwell's Bibliotheca &c. lying open 
before him, is pleased to say " I take it, he 
was a member of the Society of Jesus.!" 
He was the Author of a Latin Poem, much 
admired at the time Votum candidum 
seu Poema congratulatorium, Carole II, 
Regi Anglice dedicatum'' 1669, an octavo. 
The third octavo Edition, revised by the 
Author, was published in London, 1676. 
It contains 368 pp. and is divided into four 
books. At the end is Jacobo, et Mar ice 
Fetici Estensi, Ducibus Eboracensibus, 
filius nascitur {Carolus) Mens. Novembri 
A. D. 1677, Maurilii Neoporli Carmen 
vagum." This additional Poem has 311 
lines.* 

The following was copied by me from 
the Original, at Wardour Castle. 

"Memoranda for Sir Richard Beyling, 
as he desired by Mr. Hues." 

The Memorandum is this 

1st " The year 1665, I presented a Latin 
Poem to his Majesty, divided into three 
parts, intitled * Voium Candidum.' Now 
1 putt forth a second Edition, corrected and 
more ample." 

2nd " A Gentleman has translated for 
the most part, the first Edition, with inten- 
tion to print the same. To that end, ha in- 
tends to make his address, both to the King 
and Queene, for a supply of money, to en- 
able him to buy the paper and pay the prin - 
ter.'' 

3rd " I have reason to conceive the trans- 
lation to be but a mean one, perhaps 
a very mean one ( for I have seen some 
verses of it) and such as may not be 
much to my credit, and as little to his 
Majesty's. For the most part of people 
will make an estimate of the Latine, accor- 
ding as they see it rendered in English." 

4ih "VVherfor I humbly entreat both 
their Majesties not to give any encourage- 
ment to the sayd Gentleman, in order to 
the printing, or any way setting forth the 
said English Translation, without my ap- 

t'Tbis infaot Dake of Cambridge, died at St 
James's, 12 December. 16T7, 35 days old. and w«l 
l7uriod la H«ory the Ttb'o Cbapol, WeitminiUr. 



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probacdoa I coufess I am very sensible of 
this designe of his ; 

If you please to putt a stopp to it, you will 
greatly oblige, 

Sir, your most humble Servant, 
January 30th, 1671. Maurice Newport, 
Newton, Edward Baptist, of a good 
family in Lincolnshire, born 9 March, 1721, 
entered the Order in 1737, and was profes- 
sed 2 February, 1765. He taught Philoso- 
phy and Divinity, and was greatly esteemed 
as the Procurator of the English Province. 
On F. Dennett's removal from Coldhara to 
Hengrave, eaily in 1784), F.Newton suc- 
ceeded him in the former place. Dying at 
Bury St. Edmunds 29 April, 1788, he was 
buried in St. Mary's Church yard there. 

Newton, William. We meet with two 
Fathers of this name: and i think both na- 
tives of Lincolnshire. The Senior was born 
14 November, 1683, joined the Order in 
1702, became a Spiritual Coadjutor, 2 Feb- 
ruary, 1715, and died at St. Omer's 5 Feb- 
ruary, 1756. 

The Junior born 30 October, 1718 : en- 
tered the Novitiate in 1736: was for some 
years Penitentiary at Loreito : on his re- 
turn, was Professed ia England, in 1754, 
and died 16 October, 1755, I think at Rixon, 

Nicolas^ n French 

Jesuit, domiciled in the Academy at 
Liege, for many years before the emigra- 
tion of the Community in 1794. He was 
still living in that City or Neighbourhood, 
in 1814, aet. 83, Obiit. 

Nicholson , This Fa- 

ther was educated in Spain. F. Gerard 
in a letter of 23 March, 1616, to F.Owen, 
extols him as a ready preacher. 

NiHELL, Edward, born in Antigua, 18 
January, 1752 : in the 17 th year of his 
age embraced the pious Institute of St. Ig- 
natius. At the time of the expulsion of his 
English Brethren from Bruges, he was one 
of the Masters ; and subsequently at Liege 
filled the same employment. Here he was 
ordained Priest, and said his first Mass, 6 
June, 1776, Twelve i'ears later, he suc- 
ceeded the Reve.-end Charles Forrester, as 
the Missionary at Wardour. After dis- 
charging his functions for 14 years, so as to 
endear his memory for ever to that Congie* 
gation, he left for Trinidad, and there fell a 
victim of charity, 4 November, 1806, in at- 
tending the poor Negroes. He was truly a 
man of much merit, esteemed for sound 
sense, and an amiable temper ; " full of 
kindness and goodness.'' 

NiND, Joseph, born at Wareham, 6 
January, 1817; this promising and saintly 
Scholastic was consigned to an early tomb : 
but he was 'ripe for heaven, and went re- 
joicing to meet his heavenly Father, whom 
he had so religiously served on earth, 24 
May, 1838, Sec. 4. 

Nixon, Thomas, born in Lancashire, 17 
October, 1735: was entered an Alumnus of 
the English College at Rome, in 1750; 



joined the Society of Jesus 9 October' 
1756; was professed in 1770; died at 
Alnwick, 5 November, 1793. 

Noel, Martin, admitted 14 August, 1717, 
died at Liege, 17 March, 1720, set. 35. 

NoRRis, Andrew. It is certain that he 
was labouring in the Yorkshire Mission, 
at the breaking out of the Revolution, — 
that he was appiehended and thrown into 
York Castle : I meet with him in 1710, in 
Lincolnshire, when the annual letters 
thus describe him " inter alios longe emimt 
P. Andreas Norice, Apostolici vir zeli et 
paris prudentice. He died 26 January, 
1722. 

NoRRis, CuTHBERT, whosc real name 
was Clifion, was 2nd son of Sir Cuthbert 
Clifton, of Clifton, Knight, by Anne Til- 
desly, but assumed the name of his Grand- 
father, born in Lancashire : admitted in 
1630, Professed 11 May, 1651. The prin- 
ciple theatre of his Apos lolic zeal, was his 
native County, There he rested from his 
labors. 15 October, 1675 ; of his age 65, 
not 70, as F. Richard Strange asserts in the 
annu al letters of 1675. In those letters, F. 
Norris is justly sliled ^' vir pius , quique 
multis amiis in VintA Dni cum Jructu 
laboravit." 

In pp. 380-3 of Cath. Miscellany, of 
December, 1827, 1 published from the annual 
letters of 1652, the account of this Father's 
converting James, the 7th Earl of Derby, 
just before his execuiion, at Bolton, 15 Oc- 
tober, that year. This conversion is express- 
ly stated to be " minimi nota in vutyus,'* 
(For an account o£ the siege of Latham 
House, in the spring of 1644, see an inter- 
esting account in January, February, March, 
April, European Magazine, 1793.) 

NoRRis, 'jofiN. The English Provitice 
can shew three Members of this name. The 
1st, I know was Professed in England, 15 
August, 1709; was Rector of Ghent, from 
1715, to 1719 — was subsequently Mission- 
ary at Burton, ia Sussex, where I believe he 
dieJ, 10 May, 1754. 

*The second was a Scholastic who died at 
Liege in the 2nd year of Philosophy, 15 
June, 1676, set. 20. '* magnce speijuvenis , 
aUjue in Greeds litteris prceclareerudilus, 
*The 3rd was a Novice, born 12 August, 
1726, admitted 7 September, 1749, died at 
St Omer 22 February, 1751. 

NoRRis, RicHAnc— For many years 
served the residence of St. Stanislaus, and 
I believe was stationed at Exeter *' wnere a 
Mass-house was opened" (as we read p. 
391, Vol.L of Calamy's History of Puritan 
Ministers) in the reign of James II. He 
was a naiive of Lancashire, was entered an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1677, and probably joined the Society in 
that City. 

When the Revolution burst forth with 
such tremendous fury, in the West of Eng- 
land, towards the end of the year I6S8, F. 
Norris, judging it unadvisable to expose 



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himself to the wanton brutality of the soldiery 
and the rabble, attempted privately his es- 
cape from the Town. But he fell in with 
the Scouts and Sentinels, one of whom 
levelled a blow at him with a battle axe; 
but the stroke was averted by a comrade, 
and the Father effected his escape. Tkat 
night hepassedina hove] on the bareground. 
Understanding the next day that the soldiers 
were on the look out for him — that a con- 
siderable reward was offered for his appre- 
hension — that the very man, who the day 
before had prevented the fatal blow, had 
engaged to discover hira, wherever he lay 
concealed, he decided on taking some other 
direction. For two days he lay absconded, 
in a damp and uncomfortable chamber, ex- 
posed to the wet and wintry cold. On 
ascertaining that the soldiers had quitted the 
town, he resolved to return to the assistance 
of his flock. He was then distant from the 
place 16 miles, and he performed the journey 
almost barefoot, in miry and difficult roads, 
and drenched with rain — Oq his arrival, he 
found the population more excited than be- 
fore. Some one had threatened to put the 
Mayor to trouble, for not having arrested 
the Father before he had taken his departure, 
the houses of all the Catholics had been 
rigorously searched for him, and a premium 
" 2'dO aureorum" was offered for his head. 
Seeing no chance of safety if he remained, 
he quitted the town again in the dead of the 
night. Here he experienced the manifest 
protection of Almighty God; for although 
the roads were occupied by an armed patrole, 
for 13 miles of his journey, he encountered 
no incoQvenience, no molestation. After 
six months absence, he again returned to 
his afflicted flock ; but he could not long re- 
main concealed from the observation of his 
enemies, who were eager for his capture. 
On being recognized his lodgings were 
searched ; but he succeeded in escaping 
along the roof of the adjoining houses. 
Another time he was actually in the hands 
of some soldiers who had been sent to ap- 
prehend him; yet by the favour of God he 
eluded their vigilance, and gave them the 
slip." 

In 1701 and 1704, I meet with this good 
Father as superior of his brethren in Devon 
and Cornwall. He died 21 June, 1717 . 

NoRRis, Sylvester, of Somersetshire, 
was entered an Alumnus of the English 
College at Rome, in 1590. When he had 
finished his Theological course, and taken 
his degree of D. D, ha aggregated himself 
to the Society. Mr. Dodd (p. 402, Vol il, 
Church, Hist.) mentioning his arrival at 
Douay, 24 July, 1606, is pleased to add, 
'* after some time he entered among the 
Jesuits." He would have expressed himself 
more correctly, by stating, that he was pro- 
ceeding' to Rome, and actually became a 
Jesuit there before that year (1606) had ex- 
pired. Twelve years later, F. Norris was 
admitted in London to the profession of the 
2 N 



Four solemn Vows of the Order. After 
serving the Mission with great zeal and 
ability, he died in England, 16 March, 
1630, set. 59. Under the signature S. N. 
he published "The Antidote, or Treatise of 
thirty controversies against Sectaries, 4to. 
St. Omer's 1618, pp. 322. The 2nd part 
1619, pp.247. 

*' An Appendix to the Antidote,'* 4(o. 
London, 1621, pp. 107. 

"T/ie Pseudo Scripturist" 4to. 162S. 

Mr. Dodd asserts, that he wastheauthor 
of a Treatise proving the Scriptures not to 
be the sole Judge of Controversies, 4to. 
1623 ; but is not this the same work as the 
" Pseudo Scripturist 1" 

F. Norris, (who often passed by the name 
of Smith ) published " A True Account of 
his Conference with Walker." 4to. Lon- 
don, 1624— Unnoticed by Dodd. 

North, Robert, is mentioned by F. 
Gerard in his Latin Autobiography, as 
having been a prisoner at Worcester^ when 
F. Oldcorne was executed there in April, 
1606, and was living at St. Oraer's in 1609. 
I think he was sometimes called Duckett, 

Norton, John, is mentioned in a letter, 
dated Liege, 14 May, 1632. The Obituary 
states him to have died at Madrid in 1604i 
Q. 1640? I read in p 131, Vol. L of 
Flandria IHustrata" that F. John Norton, 
of Kent, was the third Rector of the English 
House at Ghent. 

Oakley, Francis, born 3 August, 1694. 
This Rev. Father became Tutor to Rowland 
Stanley, Esq., in his Continental Tour, and 
had the reputation of being a good scholar : 
he died in England 12 July, 1765, set. 61. 
Rel. 40, Prof 23. 

Oldcorne, Edward, (who after sub- 
scribed himself Hutton) was a native of 
York, of honest and religious Parents, and 
after a grammatical education, was brought 
up to the business of an Apothecary. At 
the age of 21 he received from Heaven a call 
to the Ecclesiastical State. His dear friend 
F. John Gerard writes, that "he firststudied 
in France in the English Seminary at Rheims 
two or three years, and then in the English 
College at Rome, where he heard his course 
of Logic, Philosophy and Divinity, in all 
which, he profited much, having a very good 
capacity. But his chief care and desire 
was to profit in spirit, which he did io such 
sort as was greatly to the satisfaction of all 
his Superiors, and the edification of the 
whole College. No man was more careful 
to observe the Rules ; no man raoi e forward 
to the practice of any mortification; of beg- 
ging permission to go to the Hospitals, ahd 
to serve in the Kitchen, with other such 
like practices of humiliation, which he knew 
to be usual in the Society, unto which he 
had a vocation a long time before he could 
obtain his desire; though he was not de- 
ferred from any want of likin™ which his 
Superiors had, either of his spirit or other 
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fts many good spirits and sufficient men as 
they could, to the end of the College, and to 
furnish the clergy of England with able men 
against the time that God should please to 
have mercy upon our country. The opinion 
his Superiors had of him was well declared 
in the particular choice they made of him 
to send him into the kingdom of jNaples 
and Sicily, to negotiate for the College and 
procure Alms in a time of great waat, when 
the College was involved in debt, in con- 
sequence of being over-charged with the 
number of scholars more than their receipts 
yereable to maintain. Yet the charily of 
its governors was such, and the want of fit 
■workmen in the English harvest so great, 
that they would not lose good spirits, when 
they offered themselves to that vocation. 
F.OIdcorne executed his commission with 
such discretion and fidelity, that he brought 
a good round sum unto the College at his 
return." On 15 August, 15SS, he was 
admitted into the Society with the said F, 
John . Gerard, by the "General Claudius 
Aquaviva, and forthwith ordered to the 
English Mission. They landed on the 
coast of Norfolk. F. Oldcorne proceeded 
by Yarmouth to London, "where he met 
his superior F. Henry Garnett, who took 
him to Warwickshire, and employed him 
in divers Missions round about, and found 
him so practical and industrious, that he 
doubted not to send him to the most difficult 
enterprises." lo March, 1589, he placed 
him at Henlip House, the seat of the A bing- 
tons, near AVorcester, and this became his 
usual head quarters and residence for the re- 
mainder of his life. 

It would require a volume to enumerate 
the good deeds of this virtuous, wise, and 
charitable Father, aud indefatigable Mis- 
sionary — the number of persons whom lie 
converted, and of Catholics he reclaimed; 
of scholars whom he sent over to the Semi- 
naries, and of devout females to the Con- 
vents ; F. Gerard says, " indeed I may 
safely say of him, without amplification, 
that Hnillis partibus iotas fere funda- 
vitf rexitque eeclesias domesticas.* I 
neither do know, nor have known any one 
Priest in England, that did go so many 
journies as he did, especially towards the 
latter end of his time, when he grew to be 
acquainted with so many places, and so 
much esteemed in all places, that he could 
never almost stay three days at home, but 
he should be sent for." 

But at length his hour was come to be 
delivered into the hands of his enemies. 
They had searched for him at Henlip House, 
on two occasions before,* and he had 
adroitly disengaged himself from their toils. 
In the winter of 1605, after six days search, 

• See tbe account from a MS. (I believe written 
by his friend F. Thomas Lister, or Robert North) 
trhich I Inserted pp, 405«8 of Andrew's Orth, Jotir- 
aal. June, 1836. 



he fell into their hands, with F. Henry Gar- 
nett, and was committed to the Tower of Lon- 
don. Here he was tortured five hours every 
day, four or five days together, which F. 
Gerard (who could speak from experience 
there) remarks, *' is a greater extremity 
than one would easily believe, that hath not 
tried it." Remanded to Worcester Jail, he 
was led forth for execution, to Redhill, on 
Monday, 7 April, 1606, set. 45, and went to 
receive the full reward of hisfaithfulservices 
and fruitful zeal. 

F. Gerard thus concludes the narrative of 
the life and death of his affectionate friend, 
" I hope in God the time will come, when 
the City of Worcester will see and acknow- 
ledge both the burning charity, with which 
F. Oldcorne lived and died amongst them, 
and the crown of glory he hath received of 
the hand of God for his faith so truly kept, 
and his course so happily consummate. 
His life was holy : his death saintly. God 
send us part of his blessed merits and inter- 
cession," 

Bromley asserts, that there is an en- 
graving of this Father by Boutlats, and was 
told of another by. Pass. — The Father was 
certainly grey-headed before his death. 

Ormes, Henry. — This Rev. Father died 
VFhilst Professor of Philosophy at Liege, 
28 April, 1673. He is described in the 
Annual Letters as a truly religious man, as 
hQ\ng''' in fiore CEtatiSy guique mird dex- 
teritate ad sedulitutem discipulis suis in- 
stillandam pollebat.'" 

OsBosTox, John, entered the Order 7 
September, 1674 , died in England 22 De« 
cember, 1690, eet. 35. 

♦Oswald, Akthony, born 24 October, 
1723, was admitted 20 December, 1751. 
This valuable lay-brother retiring to Ham- 
burgh, there ended his earthly course in the 
year 1799. 

Owen, John Hugh, of Anslesea, was 
received an alumnus of the English College 
at Rome in 1636. Whilst a Missionary in 
England, viz. j in 1648, ha was incorporated 
in the Society. Seven years later I meet 
him at Brussells ; was subsequently sta- 
tioned at Holywell, where he made a 
saintly end 28 December, 1686, set. 71. A 
MS. Note informs me "thst some months 
before his death he had fallen off his horse, 
as he was coming home from Mr. Salisbury, 
(a new Catholic,) where he had been cto 
help the Family. Besides the ordinary 
Fast every Friday, when he took a rao- 
derale collation of night, he used to abstain 
from all sort of food until Sundaynoon. H« 
rever went abroad for his recreation, never 
played at cards, or the like. He had used 
much fasting from his youth. 

I have also seen his own MS. report, 
bearing date 6 July, 1663, of Roger Whet- 
ston's cute (then about 60 years of age) of 
inveterate lameness, 28 August,- 1667, by 
drinking of the water of St. Winefrid's well. 
This poop man came frem Broraesgrove, 



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®nd from a Quaker and Anabaptist is said to 
have become a serious Catholic ; and his 
son, about 1 1 years of age, was christened 
Catholico more, after full instruction, unto 
whom the greatest persons of the country 
were pleased to be Pafrines," 

F. O. published some Treatises '^tacito 
nomine.^' 

1. ''On the grievousness of mortal Sin, 
especially of Heresy." London, 1668. 

2. A Catechism in Welsh." London, 
1688. 

3. " The Prayer Book called " The Key 
of Heaven.'' London 1670 

Owens, John. I meet with two ; one 
was a. native of Northamptonshire, and 
died at Ghent, 26 July, 1674, set. 74. Soc 
42. of Palsy, " Vir Plane religiosus, plus 
ac sedulus." — An. Lit. 

The other died 1 March, O. S-, 1729, of 
whom I can glean no other particulars. 

*OwEN, Nicholas, commonly called, 
and mostly known by the name of Litile 
John : for nearly twenty years attended on 
F. H. Garnett, and rendered inestimable ser- 
vices to Religion by his wonderful ingenuity 
in contriving secret places to hide Priests, 
Church Ornaments, and papers, from the 
malicious scrutiny of the Pursuivants ; " so 
that I verily think," says F. John Ger- 
ard, who knew him well, "no man can be 
said to have done more good of all those 
that laboured in the English Vineyard." 
Gifted with extraordinary discretion and 
judgment, possessed of uucoraproraising in- 
tegrity, and immoveable couftaacy, this 
scholar and child of St. Ignatius, acquired 
and maintained the unbounded esteem and 
confidence of the Catholic gentry, and of 
the Secular as well as Regular Clergy. 
Taken with F. Garnett, at Henlip, he was 
hung divers times on the Rack, for seven 
hour* together, in the Tower of London : 
but God assisted him with so much grace, 
that in the agony of pain, he gave not the 
least sign of relenUng, nor any mark of im- 
patience, nor did a word escape his lips, by 
\Thich the least of his acquaintance did, or 
could come to any trouble. They tor- 
tured him so long, and so often, that his 
bowels gushed out together with his life. 
He had lived a saintly life, says Gerard, 
and his death was answerable. I desire 
my soul may have part with his, and myself 
be assisted with his holy prayers." The 
true date of his death I conceive to be 6 Feb- 
ruary, 1606, not 12 November, as the Ne- 
crology has it. 

Owens, Thomas, of Hants. This pru- 
dent, experienced, and learned Father, en- 
tered the Society at Lyons in 1579. F. 
Robert Persons, who had long witnessed 
his talents for business, recommended on his 
death bed to the General Claudius Aquavi- 
va, that he might be appointed to succeed 
him in the office of Prefect of the English 
Mission, and Rector of the National Col- 
lege in Rome. The recommendation was 



approved of, and F, Owens continued the 
Superior until his death, 6 Decl6I8,8et. 62. 

We have three of his publications — trans- 
lations from the French. 

1. Defence of the Society of Jesus,''* 
St. Omer, 1610. 

2. *'j4w Answer to Anti-Cotlon." St 
Omer, 1611. 

3. " Cardinal Perron* s Letter to Isaac 
Casaubon." St. Omer, 1612. 

•Padeury, Thomas. This Temporal 
Coadjutor, born 5 August, 1714, was ad- 
mitted into the Society in 1753. He died 
at Bruges, in a good old age, 14 March, 
1792. 

Page. Alexander, a native of Derby- 
shire : conscecrated himself to God in Re- 
ligion, at the age of 22. At a critical pe- 
riod, viz, in 1641, he commenced his Mis- 
sionary career in England. His death oc- 
cured at Watten, IS October, twenty one 
years later. 

Page, Francis, as we learn from a MS. 
of his friend F John Gerard, was attached 
to some public office in London, when he 
was first introduced to that worthy Father, 
then a prisoner in the Clinck, who recon- 
ciled him to the Catholic Church, and dear- 
ly cherished him for his candour, zeal, and 
tender piety. Renouncing the prosfpect of 
a very advantageous match Mr. Page deci- 
ded on embracing the Ecclesiastical State ; 
and going abroad for his studies, was in due 
time promoted to Orders, and sent to the En- 
glish Mission. He chiefly resided in Lon- 
don, where, says his above-mentioned friend, 
^'multis accepiissimus fuit et multis pro- 
fuit." At his earnest solicitation, F. Hen. 
Garnett admitted him into the Society, and 
sent the formula of his vows with his own 
subscription, to F. Fabius de Fabiis at Rome 
Implevit desiderium suun ingressus So- 
cietatem, el anlequam in Belgium remitti 
potuit ut novitatiAS probationes subirett 
captus estf et probatus sicut aurum in 
fornace, et stent holocausti hostia accep- 
tus, et dealbalns stold sud in sanguine 
Ayni, jam requiem habet: Amodo videt 
me (continues the same Father) in aquis 
positum; et diver sis ventis et procellis 
jaculatum e ccelo conspicil^ securus de 
sud felicitate^ ac de med promovenda, ut 
spero, solicitus." 

F. Page was the last victim of Q. Eliza- 
beth's sanguinary spirit ; suffering death at 
Tyburn, solely for his priestly character, on 
29 April, 1602. In a letter of F.Richard 
Hlount, to F. Robert Persons, dated Lon- 
don, 6 May, 1602, he says " Page dyed of 
the Society, with much alacrity and spirit- 
ual joy, and after some other speeches be- 
fore, he uttered these words " I confess unto 
you all, that I am a Catholic Priest, and 
although most unworthy, I thank God, of the 
Holy Soeietie of Jesus, and therewith the 
Cart was dryven away, and he never spake 
more." In the Baaucharap Tower of Lon- 
don may be seen this inscription " En Dieu 



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est moH Esperance," V. Page, see p. 
168, Vol. 1, of Bayley's Hist, of the 
Tower of London. What a contrast betweea 
good Dr. Challoner's account of F. Page, 
and Mr. Dodd's ! 

Paix, John, died at Liege, 13 Juae 
1738, St. 71. Soc. 40. 

Pains, Ja:>iE3 Philip, born at Noards, 
.30 April, 1767; at the French P«.evolution, 
emigrated to this Country, and his love of 
piety, and his zeal ot souls, induced him to 
become a Postulant for admission into the 
Society. His wish was granted. Solid, stud- 
ious, and methodical, and full of the love 
of the Institute, he was judged a fit suc- 
cessor to the late Reverend Joseph Barrow, 
at Lowe Plouse, St, Helen's, where he ar- 
rived 29 January, IS 13. The Al.raghty 
blest him in his labours, and rewarded him 
■with a happy death, in the morning of 4 Sep- 
tember. 1834, Pel. 26. H's remains were 
conveyed to \ViDdleshaw. 

Palm, George. All that I can glean of 
this venerable Man, is from the Provincial's 
Report of 1655, when he is described as 
being 64 years of age, of M hich he had 
passed 37 in the Society, and 30 on the -Mis- 
sion. The date of his Profession was 11 
November, 1631. 

Palmer, Charles, alias PoM/fo?t, alias 
Robertf', 0^ Northamptonshire: at the age 
of 21 joined the Order, and was inscribed 
amongst the Professed Fathers, in England, 
3 December, 1654. He was a man of emi- 
nent sanctity and considerable learning : 
and during upwards of 30 years of Mission- 
ary labor, had endeared himself to all, by 
his disinterested zeal, meekness, and cha- 
rity. During Oates's Plot, he was hunted 
up and down the Country like a wild beast, 
chiefly at the malicious suggestions of the 
unhappy Apostate Travers, or Savage,* 
whose dishonourable frauds he had exposed 
as in duty bound, and successfully counter- 
acted. For about a year and half, this 
meritorious Father could never appear open, 
ly, in the day time — was under the necessity 
of fraquently shifting his quarters : and 
sometimes for whole days in the wintry 
season, was compelled to abscond in the 
woods and thickets ; but under the protec- 
tion cr Providence, be then escaped the 
fury of his blood-thirsty enemies. When 
the Savoy College was made over to his 
Brethren by King James II, he was appoin- 
ted its first Rector, and entered upon his 
office on the eve of Pentecost 24 iMay, 
1687. The success of the new Establish- 
Kient exceeded all expectation. In p. 79, 
Vol. II, Life of James II, weare told "there 
were at least two hundred Catho] ic Scholars 
and about as many Protestants, who were 
no ways constrained in their Religion, or 
required to assist at Mass, or any of tfieir 
Public Devotions." At the bursting out 
of the Revolution, F. Rector consulted his 
safety by flight; but was apprehended near 

* S«9 note on F John Clare p. 6S 



Feversham, 16 December^ 1688, and having 
been plundered of every thing, by the brutal 
rabble, was thrown into a jail, where he 
patiently suffered the most wanton indig- 
nities ; and for a fortnight was denied even a 
bed. On 1 January following the old man 
was conducted to London, and committed 
to Newgate, where his feeble constitution 
soon sunk under the accumulation of hard- 
ships and privations, viz, at 9 of the raorn- 
ing 7 February, 1690, 2et.74. In his last 
moments hevvas repeating the words of St. 
Francis Xavifr " O Deus amo te," Sfc. 

Palmer, FERDrNANU, Uncle I think, of 
Charles P, a'oresaid. The Annual Letters 
testifiy to his zealous, but discreet services 
in ths Lancashire Mission. After the 
Restoration of King Charles II, we find him 
actively engaged at London, with the duties 
of his holy calling. During the plague 
which made such frightful havock in the 
Metropolis, he multiplied bis exertions and 
sacrifices, for the relief and comfort of his 
suffering fellow creatures In the midst of 
iiis heroic labors, he took the infection, and 
passed to a glorious iramortalitv, 6 May, 
1663,8et. 61. Soc.41.Prof. 25. 

*Palmer, Francis. On account ofsevere 
illness, this pious Ecclesiastic was removed 
from Liege to Ghent, in the hopes of bene» 
fitting tiis heahh ; but Almighty God was 
pleased to hasten his happiness, by a sweet 
and enviable death. 14 September, 1641. 
The Annual Letters shew that he was a 
youth of extraordinary promise. 

Palmer, Glorge, born 10 November, 
1692 : for many years was employed in the 
Lancashire Mission. I have met with him 
at Eccles^on ; but subsequently at Slate- 
delf, where he built the Priest's House, and 
•where I think, he ended his days, 13 Janu- 
ary, 1758, Rel. 45. 

Palmer, Giles, bora ia Northampton- 
shire : joined the Novices at the age of 21 ; 
was enrolled amongst the Professed Fathers 
8 December, 1635. He departed to our 
Lord, in England, 20 November. 1066, aet. 
65, 

Palmer, John", The Senior Father of 
this name was a nati>re of Yorkshire ; em- 
braced the pious Institute of St. Ignatius in 
1627; and was professed at Michaelmas, 
1642. A year later he proceeded to the 
Easlish Mission, where I believe he died 
17 Augusc, 1653, 

The Junior was born in Northampton- 
shire, and at tlia advanced age of 40 took his 
place amongst the Novices ; at the end of 
this probation he was sent to the English 
Vineyard, where it seems he passed by the 
name of Th)vi)ig, and where he died, in the 
course of the year 1657, aet. 47. 

*Palmer, Matthew, of whom all that 
I can gather is, that he died at St. Omer, 
19 June, 1641. 

Palmer, Ralph, died in England, 9 
April, 1649, 



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Palmer, Thomas, died at Ghent, 11 
March, 1642. We may express our regret 
that the Annual Letters from 1640 to 1669 
furnish such slender details. Indeed in 
pursuing our labors, we are perpetually- 
annoyed at discovering no other memorial 
of many departed Worthies, huHhut ihey 
were born upon one day, and died upon 
another— two circumstances that are com- 
mon to all mankind. 

Palmer, William, born at Lindley. in 
Yorkshire, in 1591, entered an Alumnus of 
the English College at Rome, in 1614, 
joined the Society at the age of 27, and ad- 
mitted to the solemn Profession, 11 Novem^ 
ber, 16S1. Twenty years later he was ap- 
prehended with F. F.- John Taylor, and 
Charles Harris "ob sacerdolii siispicionem'' 
and thrown into jail. The venerable Man. 
after serving the Mission nearly half a 
century, died quietly 8 January, 1670. 

Pansford, John, of Hants. God called 
this holy Missionary to himself, 9November, 
1668, ffit. 80. Rel.4-7. Prof 35. 

Panting, John. This considerate Bene- 
factor of the Missions of Bristol, Exeter, 
and Shepton Mallet, was born 26 November, 
1732 ; commenced his Noviceship 7 Sep- 
tember, 1749 ; was made Priest at Liege, 
17 April, 1757, and was justly distinguished 
amongst his Brethren and acquaintance, as 
a good Critic, a polite Scholar, and accom- 
plished Gentleman. For many years he 
was the respected Incumbent at Bonham, 
where he ended his pious course 30 May, 
1783, and was buried in the adjoining 
Church of Stourton. Before he came to the 
Mission, he was Director of the English 
Nuns at Gravelines, and published atrans- 
Jation of " Pere (V Orleans' Life of St. 
Aloysius." Si. Omer, 1761. He left also 
in folio, a Manuscript life of St. Mary 
Magdalen of Pazzi, pp. 403. The Life of 
:St. Jane of Chantal, pp. 152, which I have 
seen at Ugbrooke. 

Q. Who was the Translator of the Latin 
Devotions for tliesix Sundays, in honour of 
St. Aloysius, a small 4to, of 112 pages, 
printed at St.Omer, and dedicated to the 
Lady Mary Magdalen Mandeville, Abbess 
of the Irish Benedictines at Ipresl 

Parker, James, of Lancashire, whose 
real name was Culcheth. This zealous 
and benevolent Priest was cut down in the 
prime of life, at Ghent, " in obsequio in- 
f^ctorum" 23 December, 1667, set, 36, See. 
15: 

Parker, Francis, born in Lancashire. 
After bearing the heats and buithen of the 
English Vineyard, for 32 years, in very 
turbulent and ciitical times, he retired to 
Ghent, where he died in peace, 20 May, 
1679, set. 73, Soc. 53. Prof. 38- 

Parker, John. Three Members occur 
of this name. The 1st was born in Lanca- 
shire, served the Mission half a Century, 
and died 25 November, 1684, set. 83. Soc. 
58. Prof. 44. In the Annual Letters, his 

2 o 



death is thus announced " In territorio 
Colleyii Apostolorum piissime ohiitpost 
vitam Apostolicam per assiduous labores 
transactam multisque conversionibus il- 
lustrem P. Johannes Parkerus Senior, oc- 
togenarius, ojficiis variis turn Superioris, 
turn Subditi, egxegie eum omnium exter- 
novum, turn nostrorum approbatione 
perfunctus. In Missione per plurimos 
annos sudore assiduo sementes suas ri- 
gaverat, unde non exiguus etiam ad pos- 
teros fructus permanavit, hodiequeper- 
mnnat. Vir fuit omnibus venerabilis, 
cujus memoria in benedictione.'* 

The Junior was a native of Staffordshire ; 
at the age of 19, and in the year 1620, en- 
tered the Novitiate, and was promoted to 
the rank of a Professed Father, 18 Decem- 
ber, 1645. He probably died in England, 
before the Restoration of King Charles II. 

The third was born in London, II Feb- 
ruary, 1715; was received among the 
Novices at Watten, 23 March, 1736. This 
Reverend Father finished his earthly course 
at Alnwick, 13 January, 1770. 

•Parker, James, No less than four of 
this name, are inscribed in the Fasti of the 
English Province. The 1st a Lay-brother ; 
but of whom I can gather no particulars. 

The 2nd was born in Lancashire, in 
1597; at the age of 26 joined the Order, 
and was professed in the same, 6 August, 
1637, He was still living in 1655, and had 
then passed 26 years on the Mission. 

The Third, whose name was Culcheth, of 
a good family in Lancashire, was a scholastic 
at Liege, who closed an innocent life by a 
Christian death 14 October, 1692, set. 27. 
Rel.7. 

The fourth was born at Liverpool, 3 
april, 1747: entered the Novitiate at the age 
of 19: and finished hisstudies at St. Alban's 
College at Valladolid. For many years was 
Chaplain to Barbara, Countess of Shaftesbury, 
daughter and heiress of Sir John Webb, of 
Odstock and Canford, Bart. After his re- 
tirement from that situation, he resided 
several years at Bristol, and conciliated the 
respect and esteem of all parties by his 
polished manners, and frank and cordial 
behaviour. Occasionally he assisted his 
friend the Rev. R, Plowden, the incumbent 
there, and charmed and delighted the con- 
gregation by his eloquent and forcible style 
of preaching. For some time before his death 
he retired to Liverpool; the Rev. Vincent 
Glover, O.S.B. on hearing that he was very 
unwell called upon him, and considering him 
to be in a dangerous state, warned him of it; 
upon which F. Parker made his confession, 
received extreme Unction, and died in five 
minutes after,29 Oct, 1822 : he was buried 
at Sefton, where may be seen his original 
Epitaph.' 

i 

Epilaphium hoc 
VivHs Vidensque scripsi^ 
Hicjaceo 
Jacobus Parker I 



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Olim Societaiis Jesu Sactrdos 
Postea Decreto heu nimium duro 
Clementis XlVSummi Poniificis 
Epriore gradu in deliciis habito 
Dejectus 

Missionarius in Angtid Apostolicus 
Annos quinquaginta, Sfc. 
Vixi, 

Obii Mtalis anno\LXXV. 
Reparatce vero salutis CIJ DCCCXXII. 
His friend George Anthony Keman, a cele- 
brated Artist, has faithfully perpetuated 
his Portrait as well as that of his 
Confrere, Rev. Robert Plowden. These 
valuable miniatures are in the possession of 
their common friend Frederick Charles 
Husenbeth, of Bristol, Esq. 

•Parker, Richard. — 1st. This Tem- 
poral Coadjutor was of Lancashire ; and 
departed to our Lord at Liege 15 April, 
1742, aet.31 Rel, 19. 

2nd. Born at Preston 23 July, 1791, ar- 
rived atStonyhurst in Oct. l8Q4i, entered the 
Society in 1810 : ordained Priest in Decem- 
ber, 1819, and 6 October of the ensuing year 
became the Missionary at Wardour. Here 
his prudence, uniform piety, charity, zeal 
and urbanity of manners endeared him to all. 
To the deep regret of his flock and his noble 
patrons, obedience summoned him away 
from Wardour to Stonyhurst College, 12 
June, 1832, to fill the office of its Rector. 
F. Parker was admitted to the rank of a 
Professed Father 2 February, 1833. For 
the last year ofhislife his patience was tried 
by a complication of maladies that defied all 
the power and skill of Physicians, and he 
died most piously at the house of his dear 
friend Mr. Harrison, of Chorley, whose 
unremitting attentions to the last exceed all 
praise. The precious remains of this worthy 
Father were honourably conveyed to Stony- 
hurst for interment. 

Parker, Thomas, (Culcheth) joined the 
Novices in 1674. The talent for government 
which he evinced in the sequel procured 
his appointment three several times to the 
Rectorship of Liege College. From 1712 
to 1716 he filled the office of Provincial of 
his Brethren. For a short time he presided 
over them in London and the College of St. 
Ignatius. Retiring to I.iege, he died at the 
good old age of 76, 10 February, 1730. 

*2. A lay-brother of this name died in 
Spain about the year 1604. 

3. This Father was born 19 Nov. 1739, 
£iad after finishing his studies at Valladolid 
entered the Society 28 June, 1763. For 
some time he was employed in the Cornish 
Mission ; thence removed to Beoley, in 
Worcestershire, and died at Heath Green 
26 October, 1820, aet. 81. 

*Parker, William. — Two of this name 
occur in the Fasti, both natives of Lanca- 
shire. The 1 St. was a Temporal Coadjutor, 
who ended his days at St. Omer, 22 Novem- 
ber, 1662, set. 60, See. 20. 
The second (Culcheth) was admitted in 



1659 ; and died a Missionary in England 27 
March, 1684. 

Parkinson, Richard, of Yorkshire, 
born 11 April, 1681 ; at the age of 18 was 
inscribed an alumnus ofthe English College 
at Rome, and Four years later a Novice of 
the Society. I find him actively engaged 
some years later in the London Mission. 
Retiring to Ghent he prepared himself for 
his passage into eternity, into which he en- 
tered 27 July, 1748. 

*Parr, Thomas, of Durham. Late in 
life was a Candidate for the Society: died 
at Liege 7 Feb. 1654, set. 66. Rel. 2\. 

*Parry, Edward. — I believe this scho- 
lastic obtained admission 31 October, 1704, 
and died in England 29 December, 1711, 
ffit. 27. 

Parky, John, of Derbyshire, born 20 
August, 1718; entered the Novitiate in 1737, 
but 1 cannot follow out his subsequent life. 

Paul, Petea. — All that I can glean of 
his life is from a fragment of the Watten 
.Journal frequently mentioned in these pages. 
"December 15, A.D 1688; Brother Peter 
Paul, a Painter, admitted." Again, " Feb. 
J3, 1691, Mr. Peter Paul admitted again." 
It is certain that he died at St. Omer's Col- 
lege, 21 February, 1722, set. 62. 

•PaVne. .... In a Letter of his Superior 
F. Richard Plowden, dated 12 September, 
1726, I read that on the preceding day this 
brother had died at Watten. 

Payton, John, born in Lincolnshire, 
A.D. 1607, at the age of 25 pronounced his 
Simple Vows, and 18 December, 1645 was 
numbered amongst the Professed Fathers. 
Ten years later I meet with him on the 
English Mission, 

*Pearce, Francis. — This Scholastic was 
consigned to an early tomb, dying at Liege 
2 August, 1746, set. 24. Soc, 4. 

PearcCf John, see Hayman, Richard. 

Peahce, Thomas, sometimes call Percy : 
was a native ot Devonshire, came on the 
Mission in 1641. He retired to Ghent to 
prepare himself for Eternity, into which he 
passed -5 January, 1685, set. 7t^, Soc, 47. 

Pearson, or Pierson, Thomas, who 
had been Professed in the Order, 2 February 
1685, was certainly the incumbent in Dur- 
ham during the reign of James II., and 
strenuously laboured for the good of souls. 
Here hehad erected a chapel " satis amplum^ 
which was numerously attended ; here by 
his zealous endeavours was opened a public 
school '* gymnasium publicum-schota 
f requens."" The Supplement to the Annual 
Letters, gives some circumstantial evidence 
of the Revolutionary Hurricane in that City. 
" Ineunte Decembri anni 1688 erupif pro • 
cella quce per aliquot dies imminebat. 
Coacta ingentinumeroplebicula, eofurore, 
eo impetu, in Sacellum involavit^ ut mo- 
mentofere temporis omnia ad solum usque 
funditus everlerit. Tectum parietes, 
tabulata, altare communi omnia Ruind 
disjecta sunt. Crux ipsa puUice combus- 



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ta. Crederes arbiiratos se omnem Cath- 
olicce religionis memoriam posse abolere." 
Then follows the account of sacking the 
houses of the Catholiclnhabitants. " Nostri 
interim, qui ed in urbe rem Catholicam 
curabant ut tantisper se populari furore 
subducerent, per noctis tenebras pedites 
itinere difficilimo {media quippe hyeme) 
hue itluc diffugere coacti deinde sub dio 
in campis vel sylvis aliquamdiu pernoc- 
tare." 

F.P. survived to reach the Patriarchal 
age of 87, dying at Durham 4 Feb. 1732. 

Peckham, Robert, died holily in En- 
gland, according to Nadasi, 25 January, 
1621. 

*Peckett, Robert, occurs a Temporal 
Coadjutor at Rome, in 1701-4, and died in 
that city 8 January, 1706. 

Pelham, Hknry, born in Kent : at the 
age of 17 joined the Society. On the En- 
glish Mission he oftea passed by the name 
of Warren. Obiitin Anytid 7 Juniij 1702, 
ist. 67. 

Pelham, Willia-m. born in Suffolk in 
1623 : was admitted into the Novitiate at 
the age of 20: ten years later was sent 
10 the Maryland Mission, in which he 
died 7 February, 1671. 

Pellentz, James. — This German Fa- 
ther was born 19 January, 1727 : admitted 

19 October, 174.4 : Professed 8 Dec. 1756, 
and devoted himself to the Maryland Mis- 
sion. He was living there in 1771. 

*Pellison, John. F. Henry More, p. 31, 
found in a letter of Polancus, dated Trent, 

20 October, 1562, to F. Mercurian *'31it- 
titur eliam umis Coadjutor, Joaannes 
Pellison, concinnandarum vestium intel- 
liyens, quatem ullimis suis Reverentia 
vestra postulabat." 

Pember, George, born in Bucks, died 
at Ghent 22 April, 1661, set. 27. Soc. 8: 

Pemberton, J ohm William, born in 
Lancashire 1 June, 1705; was admitted at 
Watten in Priests Orders, 28 June, 1733, 
In eleven years was made a Spiritual Co- 
adjutor : died in England 10 July, 1763. 

Penketh, Charles, was the Incumbent 
of Leigh, in Lancashire, in November, 1693. 

Penketh, John. According to Bishop 
Challoner, this good Father was tried 
and condemned at Lancaster, but outlived 
Oates' persecution. 

Penn, Thomas.— His Conversation to 
the tatholic Faith, and his admission into 
the Society on the day of his death, at St, 
Onier, before 1617, may be read with interest 
in p. 428, of More's Hist, 

Pendril, William. — There were two 
Fathers of this name. The Senior who is 
sometimes called Birch, was admitted 31 
May. 1708, and Professed 4 August. 1720, 
was Superior of his brethren in the Bishop- 
rick of Durham, from 12 November, 1729, 
until 1736: died in Northumberland 21 Feb- 
ruary, 1748, aet. 74. 

The Junior, soinetimes called Uorve, was 



born 1 March, 1701, admitted at the age o 
21, was Professed at Rome 2 February, 
1740, died in that city 10 March, 1746. 

Pennant, Thomas; the Necrology dates 
his death 8 July, 1638. I can learn no 
particulars. 

Pennington, Francis, sailed from Lon- 
don with F. Nicholas Gulich in October 
1675, for Maryland, In that Mission he 
spent the remainder of his life, dying 22 
February, 1699. 

*PENNiNGroN, John, born iivLancashire. 
This venerable lay-brother died at Liege 7 
May, 1671. eet. 84, Rel. 46, deserving the 
character " Diuturnce vitee Religiosce 
meritis gravis.^' 

Pennington, Roger, of Lancashire : ad* 
mitted 11 September, 1681 : died prematurely 
at Liege, 17 July, 1685, set. 26. 

Pennington, William, I suspect was 
the youn;^er brother of Roger, and was ad- 
mitted at the same time ; he was made aPro- 
fessed Father 29 June, 1699. i believe that 
he died at Liverpool 8 June, O. S. 1736, 
set. 75. He was buried in the Catholic 
Cemetry of Harkirke, near Crosby Hall, 
where lie many of his Religious Brethren, 

Percy, Charles, was admitted 7 Sep- 
tember, 1685 ; Professed in 1703. For 
many years served Grafton, was appointed 
Superior of his Brethren in the residence of 
St. George, 8 September, 1734, and died in 
office 4 October, 1735, O.S. set, 71. 

Percy, John, see Fisher, 

Percv, Philip, admitted in 1683. Pro- 
fessed in England 13 February, 1701, died 
11 May, 1724, set. Gl, I believe in Yorkshire, 

Percy, Robert, was admitted in 1674, 
died in England 2 July, 1715, set. 63. 

Perison, William, born in the County 
of York in 1611, was admitted a Novice at 
the age of 20, died in England in 1666. 

Persall, John. Of this eminent Di- 
vine, I regret to have discovered so few par- 
ticulars. At the accession of James II, he 
was appointed one of his Majesty's Preach- 
ers. Two of his sermons are in print: one 
delivered 25 October, 1685, the other 
preached before the King and Queen at 
Windsor, 30 May, Trinity Sunday, 1686. 
On the eve of Pentecost, 24 May, 1687, I 
find that he took up his residence in the Sa- 
voy College. When the Revolution ex- 
ploded, he was fortunate enough to effect his 
escape to the continent. Retiring to Liege, 
he was rector of the College there, from 1694 
to 1698. During this interval, viz, in 1696, 
he attended the XlVth General Congrega- 
tion of the Society, as " Fice Provincialis 
Anglice'' see Dec. XVI. At the expiration 
of his Rectorship, it seems, that he returned 
to England, where he died, 9 September. 
1701. 

Persons, Robert, So intimately is the 
biography of this great and good man, con- 
nected with the history of his Times, that a 
Volume would be required to do justice to 
his memory. We have invariably observed 



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that in proportion as men were wise and 
eminent, and devoted to the cause of Reli- 
gion, they have esteemed, and admired, and 
venerated his character. At present, we 
must content ourselves with offering an 
Epitome of his life : but shall embody se- 
veialofhis own notes, from a 4to MS. 
which he commenced at Naples, in the au- 
tumn of 1598, and continued at Rome to the 
month of May, 1601. 

Robert was the 6th of the eleven children 
of Henry and Christiana Persons. From 
a letter of their son John, Rector of Char- 
dlinch, addressed from the Parsonage house 
there, 31 May, 1602. to Dr. Sutcliffe, Dean 
of Exeter, and Thomas Somaster, Arch-dea- 
con of Totnes, I learn that this worthy cou- 
ple "lived together most comfortably and 
sociably in holy marriage, in their own 
home, above 50 years, and in their time were 
the best housekeepers in all that Township, 
all which is to be testified by the general 
consent of all in this Country." This Henry* 
before his death, had the consolation of re- 
ceiving all the rites of the Church, from the 
hands of F. Alexander Bryant, late in the 
year 1579. His pious VVidow survived 
until 26 April, 1600. and had much to suf- 
fer for her constancy in the Catholic faith : 
■was regularly attended by F, Robert South- 
well, until his Martyrdom, in 1595 : and 
subsequently by F. Henry Garnett, until her 
edifying demise in London, when she was 
upwards of 90 years of age. In a letter of 
F. Oldcorn, to F. Robert Persons, dated 
15 June, 16<J3, I find mention of his 
brothers George, and Thomas, and Richard 
Persons." Richard and his wife are Catho- 
lics, and have bin so these six or seven years : 
they live but poorly in outward show : and 
for your brother Thomas, he lives in Somer- 
setshire, and I hear in good estate for the 
world ; but he is no Catholic, nor is there 
any hope." In a letter of F. H. Garnett, 16 
March, 1603 he says, " the house of F. 
Person's sister, where she lay, being very 
honest and of good reputation, was searched 
on Christmas night, 16()-2— that Agnus Dei's, 
and beads, and such like were found. 
She was so frighted by the knaves, that 
she died on Innocents' day." She had 
previously been hunted away 'out of another 
parish by the Minister, for her brother's 
sake. 

Robert was born at Nether Stowey 24 
June, 1546, and was the first child baptized 
by the New Incumbent of the Parish, the 
Rev. John| Hay ward, a pious Catholic 

♦In p. 305, Athens Oxon, Wood asserts that Hen. 
P. was " an enemy to the Church of Rome, but re- 
conciled by Alexander Bryant thereunto." We pre- 
fer the authority of F. Persons, who expressly states 
that both his parents were " secundum scecuJum 
humiles, hoaesios tamen. ReUgione vera Caiholicos." 

f On 12 Feb. Aneo 30. Hen. VIIl, he was one of 
the 13 members of Taunton Convent who were 
granted an annuity by the Crown. One of this 
number was William Person*, perliaps a member of 
Xt^9 Persons, of Nether Stowey. 



Priest, who, before the dissolution of the 
Monasteries, had been a Canon Regular, of 
Taunton (not Tor Abbey as Sutcliffe said) 
and had a pension of £o. 6s. Sd. See 
Brown Willis' Hist. Vol, 11. p, 200. In 
very early youth Robert was consigned to 
the charge of his elder brother, a Merchant, 
but on whose failure in business wasreturned 
to his parents. As he showed a capacity 
for learning, the abovementioned incumbent 
exhorted the parents to afford him the means 
of education, and generously offered to con- 
tribute towards the expences, and he faith- 
fully kept his word, Robert and John 
(afterwards Rector of Ctiardlinch) were ac- 
cordingly placed under a Master of Gram- 
mar at Stogursey, for about a twelvemonth, 
thence removed to the Public Free School 
at Taunton, where they pursued their studies 
for three years, under its master, a Catho- 
lic, but a man decidedly severe.* At the 
age of IS Robert was enabled to proceed to 
St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and after tw^o 
years ofLogicwas entered of Baliol College. 
In May 1568, he was made Bachelor of 
Arts. By his unwearied industry and solid 
judgment and talents for disputation he 
soon rose to distinction : he was declared a 
Master of Arts and a Fellow of the College, 
and became a celebrated Tutor in tbe Uai- 
versity,but never took Orders there, as 
Wood suspected and presumed. Yet ou 
two occasions he took the Oath of Abjura- 
tion of the Pope's supremacy. " Pi oh 
Scelus .' bis juramantum illud nequis si- 
mum Juvenis ambitio&us, ne gradum 
amitterem, labiis pronunciavi, licet animo 
detestarer. Parcemihi, misericorsDeus, 
ac yrande hocjuverdutis mece delictum con- 
dona ; nondumenim noveram, quid essette 
super omnia diligere, et Jionorem tuum 
rebus antefer) e mundanis.'' But his 
conscience would cot suffer him to be at 
ease; he saw the storm of persecution ap- 
proaching; he witnessed the stand made by 
liis friend Richard Garnet, Fellow of the 
same College of Baliol, who renounced 
every worldly prospect rather than betray 
his Catholic principles ; in the fear of not 
being able to realise a similar example of 
constancy and fortitude, he retired for a 
time into Somersetshire, where his friends 
and pat.-ons, and chiefly Mr. John Stone 
his reladon, a wealthy merchant of Bristol, 
who was Mayor in that City in 1569, agreed 
on supplying him with Funds to study the 
Law in London. He returned however to 
Oxford, where he experienced much vexa- 
tion and persecution, from Adam Squire the 
Proctor, and especially from Christopher 
Bagshaw, a man whose food was faction ; 
and who through subsequent life, tarnished 
his other merits by restless humour and im- 
placable temper. At length yielding to vi- 
olence, and giving place to wrath, F. Robert 
took his departure from Oxford, early in 

♦See the letter whieh 1 inserted, p. 122-4 i"^ 
Andrews journal of February iS36. 



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1574, and proceeded to London/' where God 
had provided that Sir Richard Baker (whoee 
son Thomas had been ray Scholar) should 
offer me unasked, a lease of certain lauds 
fallen of late to his eldest son in Somerset- 
shire, which I took, and going down into 
the Country, I sold for a hundred pounds 
and more to James Clark, Pophara's Secre- 
tary, and with this, and other help of 
friends, I was able to go over to travel. 
After E&ster, I returned to London, and 
putting myself under the protection of Lord 
Buckhurst, by means of the Culpeppers 
and Sidneys (of whom I had two or three 
for my Scholars at Oxford) I departed for 
England, in May or June, 1574, leaving 
all that ever 1 hail in England, m confidence 
with the said Lord, who dealt honourably 
with me afterward, when in Italy I entered 
religion ; for he delivered all left to his 
custody unto the persons I assigned." 

Landing at Calais, he hastened to An- 
twerp, whence [he intended to proceed to 
the Great Fair at Frankfort; but as some 
of his companions had not yet arrived at 
Antwerp, he decided on visiting Louvain 
" in the company of two godly men, one, 
Mr. Thomas Yates, (afterwards of the So- 
ciety, and now in Brazil,) the other, John 
Slade, (afterwards Priest) and by these 
two men's virtuous example and exhorta- 
tions, I resolved in Louvain, seeing 1 had 
time to stay there eight or ten days, to make 
the Exercises under F. William Good, for 
eight days." 

Rol>ert's destination was Padua, where 
he intended to apply to medicine. He ar- 
rived there towards the end of September, 
1574. Taking a commodious house " I 
bought good store of books for my faculty, 
as also provision of Apparel," but the mercy 
of God would not suffer his mind to rest on 
his studies ; his pleasures were sprinkled 
with bitterness ; he remained a stranger to 
peace and comfort, and after a severe con-* 
flict with himself, he withdrew secretly, 
and performed the journey to Rome on foot. 
" There I offered myself to the Society, and 
entered it upon St. James's day, 24 July, 
1573, and having made distribution of all 
my worldly affairs, especially of such goods 
as I left at Padua, and in the Lord Buck- 
hurst his hands in England, I found 
myself exceedingly comforted.'' 
, At the expiration of his Noviceship, he 
began the study of Divinity in the Roman 
College — was ordained Priest some time of 
the year 1578, and continued to assist in the 
Penitentiary, and in the " charge of the No- 
vitiate of the second year" until he received 
orders to be ready for the English Mission. 

We should add from hisletter to Dr. Allen, 
of 30 March, 1579, that he had offered him- 
self " a good while agoe to the Mission of 
the Indies, and cannot obtain it." 

We have mentioned in the biography of 
F. Edmund Campian, the anxiety of Dr. 
Allen, that Jesuits should be employed 

2 p 



in the English Mission. His heart was 
closed to every other interest, every other 
concern, than the glory of God, and the 
salvation of souls. He had reached Rome 
in October, 1579. and had so effectually ne- 
gotiated the sending of English Fathers 
with his Holiness, Gregory Xllf, that 
instructions had been issued to F. Edmund 
Campian to hasten to Rome, to be the as- 
sociate of F, Persons in this work of the 
ministry. 

Ambo animis, ambo insigneSfprcestan- 
tibus ausis. Before they left Rome, on 
Low Sunday, 18 April, 1580, the General 
of the Society forbade them to interfere 
directly or indirectly with any political or 
state affairs, or to discuss, or to listen to 
such subjects. (Bartoli c. 6 and 8, Lib. 
II.) F. Persons, it was agreed, should cross 
over to England first. Personating a Cap- 
tain returning from Flanders to England, 
provided with a dress " of buff, layd with 
gold lace, with hatt and feather, suted to 
the same" he passed to Calais upon St. 
Barnaby's day, as I remember, being xi of 
J une, (not 16 as Bartoli asserts) and finding 
fit embarcation and passage, the very next 
morning arrived at Dover." Here, the 
Searcher, according to his commission ex- 
amined hira," found no cause of doubt in 
him, but let him pass with all favor, pro- 
curing him horse, and all other other things 
necessary for his journey to Gravesend." 
This manifestation of God's care and pro- 
tection, inspired the Father with courage 
and confidence, and he told the searcher 
" that he had a certain friend, a merchant 
lying in St. Omer's, that would follow him 
very shortly, to whom he desired the said 
searcher to show all favor : and so he pro- 
mised to do, and took a certain letter of the 
same Father to send to Mr. Edmunds (for 
so F. Campian was now called,) and con- 
veyed it safely to St. Omers,in which letter 
F. Persons wrote unto him the great courtesy 
which the searcher had shewed him," and re- 
commended him to hasten and follow him 
up to London, where he might assist him in 
disposingof his stockof jewels and diamonds* 

F. Persons took the boat at Gravesend 
at midnight, and reached Southwark at 4 
o'clock in the morning. In consequence of 
the Queen's proclamation, and the general 
suspicion prevailing against strangers, he 
found it impossible to procure accomoda- 
tion at the Inns, coming, as he did, with- 
out a horse. At last he proceeded to the 
Marshalsea prison, where he found that 
generous Confessor Mr. Thomas Pound, 
S. J., who received him with open arras, 
and introduced him to that worthy gentle- 
men Mr. George Gilbert, who bountifully 
provided for all his wants and comforts, as 
well as for F. Campian on his arrival. 

Early in July, these two Reverend FF. 
took leave of each other at Flogsdon, a vil- 
lage near London, with the intention of 
meeting again in the Capital atMicliaelmas. 



160 



* AUthe summer we passed over in preach- 
ing ; my lot was the Shires of Northamp- 
ton, Derby, Worcester, Gloucester, and 
Hereford ; Mr. Gilbert was my companion," 
In October, the two Fathers met at Ux- 
bridge : and as the most diligent search was 
making for F, Campian, it was agreed that 
he should retire to Lancashire, and that 
J. Persons should be stationary in London 
or the environs. On Campian's return, the 
two Fathers met frequently at Harrow-on- 
the-Hill. In going there, they had to pass 
by Tyburn, and F. Persons relates the fol- 
lowing anecdote, Campianus per Tiburn- 
um semper detecto capite subire voluit, 
magnd reverentid factd, turn ob signum 
Cruets et honcrem nonnullorum Martyr- 
um, qui ibi passi sunt, et quod sibi illic 
aliquando certandum dicebat," As the 
heat of the persecution increased, it was set- 
tled that F. Campian should proceed to 
Norfolk : the two friends, as if they had a pre- 
sentiment that they should never meet again, 
renewed their religious Vows, and received 
the Holy Communion : then tenderly embra- 
cing each other, et mutantes galeros in sig- 
num Amoris, discessimus ab invicem." The 
parting took place on Monday, 10 July, 
1581 : on the following Sunday, the 9th 
after Pentecost, F. Campian was betrayed 
at Lidford, in Berkshire, the seat of Lady 
Yates, by George Elliott. F. Persons was 
was on a visit at or near Henly Park, the 
seat of Francis Brown , Esq., when he heard 
of the apprehension of his dear friend, and 
of his having been escorted through Henly, 
to London. About a month later "I retired 
into Sussex, unto Michelgrove, and finding 
the commodity of passage to go to France, 
I resolved to go, to confer with Mr. Doctor 
Allen, and Mr. Gilbert, and F. Claudius 
Matthevps, the Provincial, about prosecuting 
of this Mission, with full intention to re- 
turn presently, through hitherto I have been 
letted," 

"One cause also was to print some books 
which I had written in England, or was in 
writing, as the Defence of the Censure, the 
Latin Epistle of Persecution, and the Book 
of Resolution in the first Edition, all which 
were printed at Roan this winter. Another 
cause also of my coming over was to make 
a Mission of Scotch Fathers into Scotland, 
which, by letters, I had procured from the 
General : and F. Edmund Hayes, and F. 
"William Critton were appointed ; but first 
to take directions from me. Wherefore, 
upon conference with F, Critton, at Roan, 
he went into Scotland, and I sent Ralph 
Emerson with him, and promised to expect 
his return at Roan, as I did, in April, 1582.'^ 

But though absent from his native coun- 
try, he was indefatigable in hi's exertions 
for its welfare. "Well might Dr. Allen say, 
*'lUius hominis Jndustria, PrudentiUj 
2eluSy in scribendo et agendo dexteritas, 
superant omnem fidem." 

Through his instrumentality was pro. 



cured of the Duke of Guise ,£100. per 
annum for a seminary of English youth, 
at Eu, in Normandy,* in 1582. In the 
course of the same year he visited Lisbon, 
and Spain, where he was honourably re- 
ceived by Philip II. " At this my being 
with the king of Spain, I obtained twenty 
four thousand Crowns to be sent to the King 
of Scots, which were paid by John Baptist 
Taxis, in Paris. I also obtained in 1584>, 
for King James, of Pope Gregory XIII, 
Four thousand Crowns, by bills of Ex- 
change, which myself brought also, and 
delivered in Paris. I caused also two 
thousand ducats of yearly pension for the 
Seminary of Rheims, and a promise for 
Dr. Allen to be Cardinal, which was af- 
terwards fulfilled." In the Spring of 1583, 
he reached Paris ; but after a short stay, 
proceeded to Rome, whence he returned 
again in a few weeks. The winter of this 
year he spent priacipally with Alexander, 
Prince of Parma. ''About Corpus Chris- 
ti day, 1584, I returned from Flanders to 
France, and in the way passing from 
Gant to Odenard, Rir. Owen and I were 
in great peril to be taken by English sol- 
diers of Mechelen, if we had not escaped 
by flight, as I did before in my journey 
from Louvain to Beveren fBevergern ?) 
where all our Cartes and Convoy were 
taken, and I escaped by the benefit of a 
good horse." After spending the summer 
and autumn at Paris, in attempting to 
diminish and extinguish the violent dis- 
content and faction, headed by the Pagets, 
Thomas Morgan and Thomas Throgmorton, 
but all to no purpose ; he retired to winter 
at Rouen, where, " in a voyde house, given 
to the Society, in a garden, I set forth my 
second Edition of the Book of Resolution 
much augmented." But who can describe 
his long and frequent journies, and his suc- 
cessful negotiations to found and organize 
the English establishments at Valladolid, 
in 1589 : at St. Lucar, in 1591 ; at Seville 
and Lisbon, in 1592 ; atSt. Omers, in 1593; 
and his disinterested zeal and powerful 
support to the Colleges of the Venerable 
Secular Clergy at DouayandRome 7 Who 
can enumerate the fruits of his learned works 
in the reformation, instruction and conver- 
sion of souls ? Who can read his Letters — 
who can follow him in his course of govern- 
ment of the English Roman College, or 'n 
his ofiice of Prefect of the Mission, without 
being enraptured with his moderation, sound 
discretion, condescension, and charity? 
No one was a better judge of the English 
character especially , than F. Persons, and he 
recommends to F. Cresswell, in his letter 
27 July, 1591, (who had complained to him 
of the insubordination and ingratitude of 
some students,) oblivion of the past — plain 

* F. Persons Says " I called Mr, Man, other- 
wise Chambers, to the government thereof : it 
lasted until the year 1588, that the Duke was 
slayne^" 



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and confident dealing with them, and to be 
assured that many defects must be winked 
at, and not pursued in a multitude: and 
that a system of Espionage is the way to 
mar all. Yet this worttiy Father, with all 
his labours, benefits and unremitting ser- 
vices, could not escape the censure and per- 
secutions, not merely of unthinking and 
indiscreet youths, but of several persons of 
respectability in the Catholic body. Under 
this heavy cross he could say with the 
Psalmist, "memento, Dne, David et omnis 
mansuetudinis ejus. Utinam Deus bene- 
dictionem mihi det pro hdcmalediclione," 
In a letter to Dr. Barret, 21 Nov. 1598, 
he says, " 1 thank God, I have long ago 
learned to make little reckoning of men's 
words or thanks in this life : but to do the 
good I can for all, and expect my reward (if 
any be due) at his hands, who is the mas- 
ter of all, and for whom I do it." In 
another letter, dated 25 July, 1601, he tells 
a friend, " I hope their malignity shall ne- 
ver break ray sleep. Jam coUum obduxi, 
et cogiiatum meum in Domino jacto." 
With this only sentence I quiet myself. 
*' Dne, tibi revelavi causam meam ; et 
ante to omne desiderium meum." One 
accusation against him has often surprised 
me, viz., opposition to the appointment of 
Bishops in England. Nothing could be 
more unfounded, His letter from London, 
17 September, 1580, proves his anxiety for 
Bishops to be provided by the Holy See 
for the English Mission: another letter to 
Dr. Allen, in 1592, testifies that he had ac- 
tually engaged a generous friend, Dr. 
Francis Sarmiento, Bishop of Jaen, to 
supply the funds necessary, for the support 
of two or three Bishops ; and we have his 
letter to Pope Clement VIII, 13 August, 
1597, which records his sentiments in favor 
of Episcopal government. Yet, is there 
any charge that has not been alleged against 
Jesuits? The usurper Cromwell, in his 
Speech to his first Parliament, 4 September, 
1654), gravely asserts, that the country had 
been agitated by swarms of JesuiYs, who had 
settled in England an EpiscopalJ urisdic- 
tion, to pervert the people !"* 

F. Persons crowned a life of usefulness, 
by a death precious in the sight of God. 
From his dying bed he dictated letters to 
his brethren of the Society in England, and 
to the Arch-Priest, Dr. George Birket, 
breathing seraphic peace and charily. In 
sentiments of melting Piety, he surrendered 
his soul into the hands of God, 15 April, 
1610, in the English College at Rome, 
tel. 64, Rel. 36, Prof. 23. *'The eye of God 
looked upon hira for good and lifted him up 
from his low estate and exalted his head ; 
and many have wondered at hira, and have 
glorified God." Ecclesiasticus xi.13. His re- 
mains were deposited in the College church 

♦ P. 180, Vol, VII. Llngard s History of England, 
4to. Ed. 



near his bosom friend Cardinal Allen. On 
the gravestone was inscribed the following 
epitaph. 

D. O. M. 

Patri Roberto Personio. 
Anglo Sornersetano 
Societatis Jesu 
Sacerdoti integerrimo atque doctissirao 
Ethujusce Collegii Optimo Moderator! 
Qui ad animi cultum et studium Pietatis 
Ad AngUse Conversionem, Collegiorura 
Domicilils ac Diversoriis per opportuna loca 
Qua per ilium ex integro constilutis 
Qua collocuple'atis 
Ab ipso, magnsB Spei convocavit, magnis 
Laboribus instituit juventutera Hispali, 
Vallisoleti, Gadibus, Ulisopone, Duaci, 
Audomari, Romas: 
Quo Duce et Socio Pater 
Edmundus Campianus 
Catliolicae Rei publicae 
Propugnatur acerrimus 
In Angllam primus ex Societate trajecit ; 
Quoque Vindice 
Et patrono Veritatis, Hostium passim exagitata 
Temeritas, libris, scriptis sermonibusqus, litterls, 
Exemplis defensa Religio, recreata Sanctitas. 
Cum inter haec ipse nuUaro caperet partem 
Concessas quietis, nullum a suo capite recusaret 
Discrimen honestissimse Oefensionis 
Semper paratus, semper erectus 
Semper mediam flammam periculosissimae 
Coacertationis irrumpens, animse magnaa 
Prodigus omnino Vir 
LXIV explevit Annos 
Ex queis sex et triginta in Societate Jesu 
Per omnia virtutis. 
Exempla transegit 
ObiitXV AprilisMDCX. 
" On the first of March, Saturday morning, 
(or the night before") in the year, 1687, 
the floor of the Church of the English Col- 
lege at Rome, fell down into the Cellar near 
St. Thomas his Altar, without any harm to 
any body. F. Robert Persons' skull and 
bones were uncovered, they were taken up 
put into a wooden box, and buryed agaia 
in the same place as before, under the same 
grave stone. F. Minister, who then was, 
tells me that F. Persons' skull seemed re- 
markably greater than that of others ordi- 
narily be, and that there were all his teeth, 
not one wanting." 

We may now turn to the writings of F,P,* 
which are characterised by masculine vi- 
gour, lucid order, and purity of diction, 
Dean Swift, No 230 of the Taller, observes 
that " the writings of this Jesuit are in a stile 
that, with very few allowances, would not 
offend any present Reader.'' 

1. A Discoverie of F, J. Nicols^ 
Minister, misreporleda Jesuite, lately e re- 
canted in the Tower of London, Sfc. by 
John HowleW 8vo. Douay. It was really 
printed in London, 1580: tho' not paged, 
it contains 194; and is dedicated to Q, 
Elizabeth. N.B. In the course of the 
same year, he wrote two tracts intitled 
" Reasons for refusal to go to Church 

•I believe he wasthe Authoi of" a true Report 
of the late apprehension and imprisonment of John 
Nicols, Minister at Roan, and his confession aud 
answers, made in the time of his durance thcr«, 
vvhereunto is added the satisfaction of certaine, 
that of fear or fralltie have lately fallen in England." 
a small 8vo. printed at Rheims, by John Foeny. 
1083. 



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one was in answer to Dr. Lan»Jale's book, 
edited by ClithercB. a Lawyer's Clerk. The 
work was reprinted in Latin, in 1637, and 
intitled *' De non a leundis Hcereliorum 
ecclesiis, 

2. " A Brief Censure upon two BooJcSy 
written in answer to Mr. Edmund Cam^ 
pian's offer of Disputation'' Svo. 86 pp. 
Douay, is mentioned in the FrvDntispiece ; 
but it was printed privatsly in Mr. Brookes- 
by's house, at Greensted, about 6 miles from 
London. 

3- ^' A Defence of the Censure given 
upon two books of William Charke and 
Meredith Hanmer, Ministers, Sfc. Svo. 
pp. 173. This was printed at Rouen, in 
the winter of 158 1, and led to ths conversion 
of F. Francis Walsingham. 

4. " Epistola de persecutions Anglicand" 
Rouen in the winter of 158L 

5. " The Book of Resolution^ or Chris- 
tian Directory.'" 

The 1st Edition, as we have already 
shewn from the Author's notes, was printed 
at Rouen, in the winter of 1581: the 2nd 
Edition, much augmented, in the same City, 
in the winter of 1581. Few works have 
passed through a greater number of editions 
since: it well deserves the character given 
of it by his friend F. Gerard, " utilissimum 
etfelicissimum opus quod ptures animas 
Deopeperit, ut credo, quam paginashabet,'^ 
It was translated into Welsh by Robert 
Gwine a secular Priest of Douay, and con- 
sequently did a great deal of good among 
the Welsh people." 224, Vol. I, Athena 
Oxen. 

6. " Andrece Philopatri ad Elizabethce 
Regince Edictum, 29 Novembris, 1 59 1, 
promiilgatum Responsio." Of this 1 have 
seen several Editions, in Svo. I. Lugduni, 
1592 ; apud Joannem Didier. pp. 278 
Another Augustce, October, 1592: apud 
Joannem Fabrum, pp. 2GS. A copy penes 
me of 1593, has 361 pp. and I think was 
published at Rome.^ Another Edition ap- 
peared at Antwerp, in 1612. 

7. " Apology for the Arch Priest." St. 
Omer. 1601. 

8. " A Temperate Ward- Word to the 
Turbulent and Seditious Wach-tvord of 
Sir Francis Hastinges, Knight." 4to. 
A. 1599, pp. 129, Antwerp. 

* 9. " The Warn-rvord to Sir Francis 
Hastinges Wast-Word.'* Svo. 1602. An- 
twerp, in two Parts. The first contains 
131 pp. ; the second pp. 138. 

10. " The Tree Conversions of England" 
In .S Vols. 8vo. 

11. " An Answer to the Fifthe Part of 
Reportes lately set forth by Syr Edward 
Cooke, Knight." 4to. St, Omer, 1606, pp. 
S86. 

12. «• The Dolefull Knell of Thomas 
Bell.'' 12mo; Rouen, 1607, pp. 414. 

13. A treatise tending to mitigation 
towards Catholike subjects in England." 
4to. 1607. pp, 556. 



14. ^^The Judgment of a Catholicke Eng^ 
lishman living in banishment for his Re- 
ligion.' shewing the Oath of Allegiance to 
be unlawful. 4to, St. Oraers, 1608. pp. 128. 

15. " A quiet and sober reckoning with 
Thomas Morton. 4to, St. Omer, 1639, 
pp, 668. 

15. " A Discussion of the Answer of 
M, William Barlow, Doctor of Divinity 
to the Book intitled ' The Judgment of 
a Catholic Englishman, Sfc. " This was 
published after the author's death. 4to. St, 
Oraer's, 1612. pp. 543. To which F. 
Thomas Fitzherbert added a Supplement of 
120 pp. 

The Work intituled ''Dutiful ttnd re- 
spective considerations upon Four Heads 
of Tryall in matters of Religion, propo- 
sed by King James in his late Book of 
Premonition to all Christian Princes, by 
a late Minister.'' 4to. 1609, St. Omer, was 
composed by F. Persons for Humphry 
Leach, and passes under his name. Tlie ori- 
ginal MS. (though not entire) in F. Per- 
sons own hand, was in the library of the 
English College at Rome in 1690. 

He probably contributed the valuable aid 
of his experience to his young friend Mr. 
Walsingham abovementioned, in the ar- 
rangement and composition, of " A Search 
made into matters of Religion," 4to. St. 
Omer, 1609, pp. 512. " Even in the Libra- 
ry of the English College at Rome, it is 
placed among F. Persons works (says the 
writer of the preceding Note, in 1690 at 
Rome) by hira who procured all the other 
books of this Father, to be bound in more 
handsome Fashion with the letters R.P. in 
gold, on each side of the Covers, and con- 
served in the Library of that College under 
lock and Key." 

As to the '* Conference about the next 
succession to the Crown of England," a 
12mo. printed :n 1594 (privately re-printed 
in 1681) F. Persons may have assisted in 
it, but in his letter to F. Henry Garnett, 
24 May, 1603, he distinctly affirms " that 
it appeereth by our late Cardinall's hand- 
wryting, that he, together with Sir Francis 
Englefllde and some others, were the chief 
authors of that book." — " Doleman Anglice 
sonet ae Vir Dolorum" — Many MSS. of 
this Learned Father were in the Library of 
the English College at Rome. 

Nicholaus Antonius, p. 356, Vol. IL 
Bibliotheca Hispana, says that Philip II. 
to whom F. Persons was greatly endeared, 
had fully intended to have applied to Pope 
Clement the 8th for the Cardinal's hat for 
this Rev. Friend, and was prevented only 
by the Father's " gravissimd oratione 
multisque lachrymis apud cundem Pon- 
iificem." He adds that F. Persons published 
at Madrid in 1590, " Relacion de Algunos 
Martyres di Ingaltara." Svo 

Biomley in his Catalogue of Engraved 
English Portraits" p. 54, mentions two 
Portraits of F. Persons, one a Folio by 
Neefs, the other 12mo, by Wierex, 



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Persons, Robert. This talented Prefect 
of Studies died at St. Otner, at the early 
age of 32, on 8 August, 1680, Soc. 16. The 
annual Letters thus describe him, '* Tir ab 
naturd ad pietatemf actus. Greeds Latin- 
isque litleris insigniter excultus, humil- 
itate, charilate et Religiosa conversatione 
notabiliSf magnum omnibus sui reliquit 
desiderium.*' 

Petit, Cyriacus, admitted 23 February, 
1697: was studying his third year of Di- 
vinity at Liege in 1704 : died in England 
11 January, 1710, aged 38. 

•Petit, Roger. — All that I can learn of 
this Father is from the Annual Letters of 
1711, which contains an Epitome of par 
ticular events hoc elapso triennio" but 
with a sad disregard of Dates. This most 
virtuous youth died at St. Oraer, having 
shortly before been admitted into the So- 
ciety, leaving an admirable example of self- 
denial and meekness. 

Petbe, Charles, was younger brother 
of the celebrated F, Edward Petre. Under 
the article Charles Palmer, we have men- 
tioned the Savoy College. Besides this, 
another College was founded by King James 
II, in nearly the heart of London, and at- 
tached to the Bavarian Chapel. At Lady- 
day, 1688, seven members of the Society 
began their residence here, and F, Charles 
Petre was appointed Superior of his Brethren 
— regular discipline was observed — the 
morning and Evening discourses, every Sun- 
day, were frequented by eager audiences, and 
upwards of 200 persons were reconciled to 
the Catholic Church. The school indeed 
was not so frequented as the Savoy College, 
but promised well, when the destructive re - 
volution burst forth. F. Charles P. consul- 
ted his safety by flight, but was discovered 
and committed to Dover Jail ; yet was 
treated with humanity, and discharged 
shortly after. Retiring to St. Omer, he 
tiled the office of Procurator, and ended his 
days there 18 Jan. 1712. 

N.B. I suspect several of the Petres who 
entered the society, were the descendants 
from Thomas (third son of John, 1st Lord,) 
Petre, who was seated at Cranham and 
Fidlers, in Essex. 

Petre, Edward, was born in London in 
1631. The Informatio de P.Odvardo 
Petre, A.D. 1684" states him to be " ex 
familid prcenohili priinogenitus.'' Per- 
suaded that a true vocation to a religious 
life affords enjoyments superior to any that 
fortune can Rive, at the age of 21 he entered 
the Novitiate at Watten. Having finished 
the course of his studies with the commenda- 
tion of learning and virtue, he returned to 
England as a Missionary, and generally 
passed by the name of Spenser. After dis- 
charging his functions with satisfaction to 
Superiors, he was appointed Rector of his 
brethren in the College of St. Thomas. 
During the public excitement, occasioned 
by Gales' Plot, F. Petre was apprehended 

2 Q. 



and thrown into Newgatt. Here he proved 
an Angel of Comfort to his fellow Prisoners : 
amongst the many who benefited by his 
charitable services were Mr. Gerard, a most 
respectable Gentleman of Staffordshire, who 
had three sons at St. Omer's College, and 
who had come to town to refute the false 
testimony of Gates and Dugdale* and F. 
Richaad Price, (alias Lacy) S.J. both of 
whom expired in his arras 11 March, 1680, 
for I read in his letter written four days 
later " Morientibus adfui et utrisque 
oculos clausi.^* After continuing in New- 
gate about a twelvemonth, he was removed 
through the interest of James Duke of York, 
to another prison, where he enjoyed com- 
parative freedom. By means of trusty 
persons, he succeeded in collecting together 
the books of accounts, deeds, and evidences 
of the province which had been scattered 
" in die nubis et caliginis." and for some 
lime acted as Vice-Provincial. At the 
accession of James the II, F. Petre was 
called to Court, — was made Clerk of the 
Closet — and after some time was enrolled 
amongst the Privy Councillors, We copy 
from the Gazette this last appointment. 

" Whitehall, November 11, 1687. 
" This day the Honourable and Reverend 
Father Edwd. Petre, Clerk of the Closet to 
His Majesty, was sworn of his Majestyis 
Most Honourable Privy Council, and ac*» 
cordingly took his place at the Board." 

Having no guile himself, F. Petre sus- 
pected no guile in others ; he was utterly 
deceived in his estimation of Sunderland's 
character, who affected a strong preddec- 
tion for the Catholic Religion, and he un- 
fortunately took opportunities of recom- 
mending and extolling to his sovereign the 
merits and services of that hollow and 
most treacherous minister. In the recent 
life of James II, compiled from the Stuart 
papers, we read, " that at the solicitation 
of Sunderland, the King, contrary to his 
own judgment and the Queen's advice, 
made F. Petre a Privy Councillor, and 
shortly afterwardst proposed him to Pope 
Innocent the XI, for a Cardinal's Hat." 
The Editor represents F. Petre, as a plau- 
sible but a weak and conceited man ; but 
omits to inform his readers, that the Father 
had implored his Majesty more than once, 
and even on his bended knees, to be allowed 
to retire from Court, alleging that such re- 
tirement would be satisfactory to the public 

*These were the Tools of Shaftesbury, in the 
Popish Plot. It is truly said by Professor Dahlmann 
in his late " History of the English Revolution" 
that " it is certain that Shaftesbury, and no other, 
reared this petty Demon with truly paternal affection 
till it became such a formidable monster." 

tHere Is some want of accuracy. It Is evident 
from Pope Innocent XI's Answer 16 August. 1687, 
to James II. that his Majesty had already applied 
for the Father's promotion to Episcopacy and for 
a Cardinal's Hat. The latter request he enforced, 
in a second letter, dated Windsor, 2-4 September. 
1687. The Gazette shews he was admitted Into the 
Privy Council, 11 November following-. 



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opinion, and be expedient for his Majesty's 
service ; but tha tthe King would never con- 
sent lo his removal — that his Majesty, 
moreover, in his letter 22 December, 1687, 
to Pope Innocent XI, acquits the Father of 
Ambition " nulld Sacrce purpurce cupU 
dilate tenetur^ nec quenquam esse credU 
mus, cujui animus ah omniambitu magis 
abhorret." — and what is still more important 
—that His Majesty in the sequel exonerated 
the Father from all blame, openly declaring 
at Paris, that his affairs would have been in 
a very different state, if he had attended to 
his remonstrances. With pleasure we 
quote the Annual Letters of the English 
Province from 1685 to 16&0. After relating 
the public dissatisfaction and irritation ex- 
cited by his Majesty's predilection for F. 
Petre, the Writer proceeds thus " Interim 
ipse Pater, uti constat, in omnibus sinyu- 
lari modestid et integritate se gessit, et 
invitus hcec honorum specimina passus 
est ; cumque videret Regemnon obscure a 
quibusdam sugilldri quod nimium ipsius 
t&nsiliis tribueret^ et demum nonnuliam 
ortam esse, ipsus causd, contentionem 
Regem inter el Pontijicem, non semel, et 
quidem de genibus supplex petiil, ul sibi 
liceret bond ipsius venid, ab auld el rebus 
gerendis se subducere. Maluit quippe se 
populari furvri et invidorum odio sac- 
rificare, quam ut res Regice quidquam 
detrimenti paterentur ; sed renuit Rex 
eonstanter ipsum a se dimittere, Et post- 
quam in Galiias venit, unico suo testimo- 
nio has omnes calumniat disjlavil ; dixit 
enint palam Parisiis, multis nostrorum 
audientibus, siillius Patris consiliis jJar- 
uisset, Res suas non eb locifuturas fuisse. 
Quo tarn honor ifico testimonio non video 
quis locus relictus sit, vel maximS invidis, 
ealumniandi,'* 

In tlie General consternation occasioned 
by the Revolutionary explosion, F. Petre 
found his way to the Continent before the 
end of November, 1688, and thus disap- 
pointed the vengeance of the phrenzied po- 
pulace who clamoured for his heart's blood. 
In the spring of 1693 he \»as appointed Rec- 
tor of St, Oraer's College, which scon felt 
the renovating influence of his govercraent. 
His experience of men and manners, his 
affability, and the great attention lie paid 
to the cleanliness and health of the commu- 
nity, rendered him a general favorite. Re- 
tiring from office in 1697, he settled at 
Watten, where he died 15 May, 1699, set. 
«8. 

Bromley, in his Catalogue of English 
engraved Portraits, mentions a Dutch Mez- 
zetinto of F. Petre, and the Devil tempting 
him to hang himself. 

The original Letters which F. Petre 
wrote from the Court of James the 2nd, to 
his brethren at St. Omer, were carefully 
preserved until the Suppression of the So- 
ciety. They irretrieveably perished in the 
general plunder of the property of the En- 



glish College at Bruges by the Austrian 
Government, in October, 1773. What a 
pity that copies had not been previously 
taken, and lodged in someplace of Security 1 
Petre, John. All that I can glean of 
the Senior is, that he was admitted into the 
Society 7 May, 1689, at the advanced age 
of 49, and that he died St. Omer, 4 February 
1697. 

For the Junior Father of^this name, see 
Mannock, John. 

Petre, Richard. — I cannot trace the 
date of his admission into the Society. He 
died at Ghent 21 September, 1692, 

Pethe, Robert. There were three of 
this name. The first died at Ghent 16 May, 
1713. He had been arrested during Gates' 
Plot, but was discharged on bail in July, 
IQdO. 

For the second, see Mannock, Robert, 

The third was born 27 May, 1700 : was 
admitted 7 September, 1719. Professed 2 
February, 1737: served Eccleston, and 
Calilay for some time: died Chaplain at 
Dunkenhalgh 27 April, 1766. 

Petre, Thomas, admitted 7 September, 
1679. Professed 18 years later : was long 
employed in the Yorkshire Mission, chiefly 
I believe at Walton Hall, where he died 5 
January, 1729, set. 66. In 1st Vol. of 
Nichol's " Illustrations of Literature^ 18fA 
Century'"' are several letters of this Father 
to Dr. Richardson. 

Petre, William, admitted 7 September, 
1670 ; after serving the English Mission for 
some years, he retired to Ghent, where he 
died 22 February, 1722, set. 72. 

Peyton, Thomas, born in Lincolnshire, 
A.D. 1607, admitted into the Society, at the 
age of 23 : ten years later he was sent to the 
English Mission, and 18 December, 1646, 
was promoted to the rank of a Professed 
Father. The pressing necessity of the Mary- 
land Mission induced Superiors to send 
him thither ; but the zealous Father died oB 
the voyage, viz., 12 January, 1660, 

Philmort, Philip, 1 think was admitted 
7 September, 1674, set. 22. During the 
hurricane of the revolution, this indefatigable 
Missionary was apprehended, and brought 
before the Mayor of Stafford. A brutal 
mob, amounting at least to 5000 persons, 
followed him to the Jail and threatened him 
with summary veigeance. At the end of 14 
months'close imprisonmenthe was arraigtsed 
for the crime of Priesthood ; but owing to 
a flaw in the indictment, was remanded by 
the Judge to prison. He was afterwards 
removed to London, where he was let out on 
bail, and eventually discharged. The holy 
man consummated his course at Watten 20 
June, 1725. 

Phillipps, Robert ; he was born in 
Wales in 1611 : was admitted at the age of 
17. In the Provincial return of 1642, he is 
then stated to be employed " in Missione 
Castrensi," after which time I lose ell 
traces of him. 



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N.B. In a letter of F. Thomas Roby to 
the General M. Vitelleschi, dated Douay, 9 
October, 1641, 1 read " Ex Anglid R. P. 
Robertus Phillippi Confessarius Seren- 
issimcB Reginoe nostrcs ad me misit quin- 
gentos florenos ; " but I suspect this Con- 
fessor was a French Father. 

Philips, Vincent, born 23 September, 
1698, admitted in 1717. Professed 1 May, 
1735, whilst serving the Maryland Mission, 
In the sequel, he was Chaplain at Gilford's 
Hall, Sufiolk. Retiring to Ghent, he ended 
his days there, 22 February, 1760. 

Phillips, Thomas, was born at Ickford, 
Bucks, 5 July, 1708. At an early period of 
life, he was sent to St. Omer's College, and 
by his unaffected piety, gentility ofmanners 
and brilliancy of genius, distinguished him- 
self among his School-fellows. On 7 Sep- 
tember, 1726, he enrolled himself amongst 
the Novices of S. J. at Watten. At the 
expiration of his Noviceship, he proceeded 
to Liege to study the triennial course of 
Philosophy: and towards the end of that 
course, viz, 17 July, 1731, he made a volun- 
tary renuccialion, in due form, of his actual 
and coniingent property, in favour of the 
College at Liege , and of tlie IhenProvincial , 
F. John Turbeville. But whilst a student 
in the second year of Divinity, viz, 4 July 
1733, betook his dismission from the So- 
ciety. The truth is, not having acquired 
the spirit of Indifference as to employrcents, 
which is so strongly enforced by the Insti- 
tute of St. Ignatius, and receiving a refusal 
to his petition, for returning to St. Omer's 
College, to teach the Belles Letires (for 
which he was certainly qualified by elegance 
of taste, and an intimate acquaintance with 
classic literature) he had become uneasy and 
dissatisfied in his vocation. But iho' freed 
from the obligations of the Order, his 
attachment to it never suffered the least 
diminution. 

Going to Rome, Mr. Philipps was in- 
troduced by F. Henry Sheldon to James 
III, commonly called the Pretender,* who 
procured for him a Canoninate at Tongres, 
with a dispensation to enjoy the fruits, 
whilst he should serve the English Mission. 
The order for his installment is dated by 
the Dean of Tongres, 1 September, 1739, He 
served it as Chaplain, to George Uth Earl 
of Shrewsbury, to Sir Richard Acton, the 
Convert, and to Mr. Berkley of Spetchley, 
from 1763 (o 1765. Retiring to Liege, it is 
clear from the Provincials Book, that he 
was re "admitted into the Order 16 June, 

♦This unfortunate Prince died at Rome. 1 January 
1766, aged 77 yearg, 6 months and 11 days. His 
eldest son Charles Edward, born 31 December, 
1720; died at Rome, 31January. 1788. The other 
son, Henry Benedict was bom 26 March, 1725, and 
was made Cardinal. 3 July, 1747. He proved in 
the sequel a Persecutor of the Jesuits, and a Spoli- 
ator of their properly. After experiencing In his 
own person, the humiliating vicissitudes of forlniie, 
he died at Frascati, on the feast of St. Iguatius. 31 
July, 1807 



] 768. There he resigned his soul into the 
hands of his Creator in the month of July, 
774, within a twelvemonth after the sup- 
pression of the Order. 

His works will ever secure to him the 
reputation of a polite Scholar. 

1. " A Letter to a Student at a Foreign 
University, on the study of Divinity,'* 
8vo. London, 1756. pp. 126. Reprinted in 
1758 and 1765. It was addressed to John 
Jenison, S. J., whom see p. 122. 

I find in a letter of F. Thorpe, that this 
publication was presented to Philip, 4th 
Earl of Chesterfield, by Lord Shrewsbury, 
at the desire of F. John Darrell. Lord 
Chesterfield acknowledged the receipt to F. 
Darrell, saying " the nature of the Studies 
of Divinity, was beyond his capacity ; but 
that Mr. Phillip's diction was pure and 
elegant, and a dry matter is treated in that 
agreeable manner, in which all of the Society 
write, who always excel in the Dulce: for 
his Lordship then believed, that Mr. Phillips 
was a Jesuit.' 

2. " Philemon.'' printed but not published, 
in 1761. It is a concise review of his own 
life, and in it, he feelingly laments the pre- 
mature death of his associate and friend. ( Q. 
Lewis Lauro, who died 29 May, 1729, set, 
25, Soc. 3. or Lewis Burdett„\ vere Hussey) 
who died at Liege, 17 January, 1733, eet. 
22. Soc. 4). 

N.B. His Uncle, William Joyner, pub- 
lished the Roman Empress, a Tragedy, 
London, 1671, 4to. Observations on the 
Life of Cardinal Pole, 8vo. London, 1686, 
and Isft some beautiful Latin Hymns on 
the SS. in MS. 

3. ''The History of the Life of Re- 
ginald Pole, 4to. Oxford, 1764, in two 
parts. The first part contains 460 pp. the 
2nd 247 pp. A second Edition appeared 
in two Volumes, 8vo. London, 1767. His 
object in writing this valuable piece of 
Biography, was to give to the English Na- 
tion, a correct idea of the Council of Trent. 
This he stated to the Reverend Charles 
Plowden, from whose lips I heard it. At 
the present enlightened period, onecanhardly 
believe the stir and consternation which this 
work produced, amongst the ranks of bigo- 
try, the enemies of Free Discussion, and the 
fiery Champions of Civil and Religious In- 
tolerance, Dr. Gloster Ridley, Dr. John 
Jortin, and a tribe of other Reverend Mes- 
sieurs, Dr. Timothy Neve, the Tillards, 
Stones, Jones, Pyes, &c. rushed forth to 
smite this honest Catholic Writer. But 
their fury was to little purpose, and only 
served to prove, that " Causa patrociniQ 
non bona, pejor erii:' F. P. translated 
the " Lauda Sion Salvatorem," His ver- 
sion begins thus. 

"Sion rejoice in tuneful leys" 
See the European Magazine for 1796— the 
Catholic Miscellany for October, 1822, pp. 
433-4-5. the Caih. Magazine for March 
1833, pp. '223— 23!2, and my aiticle in Cath„ 
Magazine of March, 1834. 



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Piatt, John, was admitted 7 September, 
1706. Professed 18 years later. For many 
years was employed in the Residence of 
St. Michael. He died at York, 19 January 
»t. 67. 

PicKFORD, Thomas, a native of Cornwall : 
at the age of 23 joined the Society, and was 
admitted to the Profession of the Four Vows 
21 December, 1642. He closed a long 
Missionary life in very difficult times, by 
an edifying death, 5 May, 1676, aet. 70. 

PiGOTT, Adam. In the Journal formerly 
kept at Watten, I read " 1694, December 
31, Mr.= Pigott admitted at night" he became 
a Professed Father in 1712, and I find was 
Chaplain at Calehill ; but he ended his days 
at Crandon Park, 30 April, 1751, aet, 78. 
At the instance of this venerable man, Mr, 
Alex, Pope mads the version of St. Francis 
Xavier's Hymn "0 Deus, amo te. 

O God, I love thee: not to gaia 
The joys of thy eternal reign, &c, 

PiGBT, Peter. All that I know of him 
is, in a letter of the Reverend Charles 
Plowden, dated Stonyhurst, 5 February, 
1820, to the Reverend John Hughes. " Old 
F. Peter Pigotdied a few days ago at Paris, 
in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, 
as he had always desired. We ought to 
pray for him, because he was so many years 
a Member of our Province." 

Pile, Henry. This Marylandian was 
born 24 May, 1743 : was admitted in 1761 : 
and after his Ordinations, was employed for 
some time in the Yorkshire Mission. Ke- 
turningtohis native Country, hetherefinish- 
ed his course in the year 1814. 

*PiLLE, Jacquet Joseph, born 29 July, 
1721*. admitted 26 November, 1750; and 
died at Watten, within five weeks later, 
Tiz, 30 December following. 

•PiNTLETT, Pierre. This good Lay- 
brother died at Liege, 5 August, 1709, at. 
56, Rel. 26. 

Pitts, Henry. All that I find of him is, 
the date of his death in England, 9 Decem- 
ber, 1690. 

Plattf Daniel, see Needham. 

Pleasingtok, Joseph, of a good Family 
near Blackburne, born 16 June, 1715: 
joined the Society 1 October, 1737: was 
Professed in 1752, at St. Omer : ended his 
eourse at Alnwick, 29 March, 1781. 

Pletzius (Q. Plots?) John, born in 
Staffordshire, in 1614; at the age of 20 be- 
eame a Novice, and 17 September, 1651, 
was admitted to the Profession of the Four 
Vows, and was then appointed to the Eng- 
lish Miagion. He had previously taught 
Humanities and Philosophy. After 1655, 
I lose sight of him. 

Plotto, or Ploche, Delphin. born 
25 May, 1668: admitted in 1687: was en- 
rolled amongst the Spiritual Coadjutors, 15 
August, 1698, died at Ghent 12 November, 
1747. 

Plowden, Charles, one of 15 Children, 
and of a Family fruitful in Religious of 



both sexes, was born at Plowden Hallf 
Salop, 1 May, 174S.* Under the name o 
Simons he was admitted into St. Oraer's 
College, 7 July, 1754; having completed 
Rhetorick at the early age of 16, he 
hastened to Watten to consecrate him- 
self to God, in the Novitiate of the So- 
ciety. At the end of his Philosophical 
Course, he commenced the teaching of Hu- 
manities at Watten, and dintinguished him- 
self by correct taste and elegance. After 
conducting his Pupils thro' the usual course 
of six years, he began the study of Divinity 
at Liege ; but was soon after ordered to 
Rome with the charge of a Pupil, Sir 
Thomas Gage. F. Ricci, the General of 
the Society, received him very graciously, 
and recommended him to pursue his the- 
ological studies at Bologna : he did so ; and 
returned to Rome to receive Holy Orders, 
i read in a letter addressed to his brother 
F. Robert Plowden, from Rome, 27 Oc- 
tober, 1770, " I was ordained Subdeacon in 
the Ember days of September, at St. John 
Lateran, by the Patriarch of Alexandria. 
On the Saturday following, the 29th olt, 
the Cardinal Vicar Colonna ordained me 
Deacon in his own Chapel, and on the mor- 
row 30th, my unworlhiness was promoted 
to Priesthood, by the Bishop of Pienza in 
Tuscany, residing in Rome. I said my 
1st Mass at St. Aloy&ius' Altar on the 7th 
instant." His services were now required 
for the New College at Bruges, of which he 
was appointed Minister. But w^hen every 
thing looked prosperous ; suddenly a speck 
was seen, and the heavens were darkened, 
(in B. of Kings. 18ch)and the Tempest 
burst forth and spetst its desolating violence 
on this rising Establishment. His narra- 
tive of the destruction and of his personal 
imprisonment, from 20 September, 1773, to 
25 May, 1774, by the mean suspicion and 
wanton despotism of the Austrian Govern- 
ment, deserves to be published. 

After a hurried visit to his^friends of the 
Academy at Liege, F. Plowden repaired to 
England, but soon returned to the Academy 
above-mentioned. For I find by a letter 
from its President, the Reverend John 
Howard, to Henry Lord Arundell, 11 No- 
vember, 1774 " Mr. Plowden exerts with 
great application his superior talents in 
quality'.of Spiritual Prefectia this Academy." 
He subsequently travelled with Mr. Smythe, 
and the Maxwells, on the Continent, and 
improved the opportunity of forming or re- 
newing acquaintance and friendly intercourse 
with several leading characters in Church 

♦He was lineally descended from the celebrated 
Edmund Plowden, " the most accurate of all Re- 
porters". His admirer Sir Edward Coke, thus fi- 
nishes the Fourth Part of his Institutes " We will 
conclude with the Aphorism of that great Lawyer 
and Sage of the Law, Edmund Plowden. (which 
we have heard him often say) "Blessed be the 
amending Hand." He died 6 Feb. 1594-5 and wai 
buried in the North aisle of the Temple Charch, 
London. See his character in Camden's Annals 
of Q.Elisabeth A.D. 1584. 



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and State. In 1784, he accepted Mr. 
Weld's offer of being Tutor to his sons 
at Lullworlh. That Gentleman knew how 
to appreciate the treasure he possessed in 
such a Scholar and Friend. Late in No- 
vember, 1794, F. P, rejoined his brethren 
at Stonyhurst, and by his acquaintance 
with the worlds by his classical taste, his 
extensive information , his indefatigable in- 
dustry and punctuality, his tender and solid 
piety, his consummate talent in forming 
young men to a spiritual life, he essentially 
promoted the credit and welfare of that es- 
tablishment. No one can read his MS. 
Exhortations to the Novices (he was the 1st 
Master of the Novitiate at Hodder) on the 
Institute and Constitutions of the Society, 
without admiration of the Author. Here 
we may be allowed to extract a few pas 
sages inculcating Charity and Reverence 
for the Secular Clergy, 1803. 

** Discord has, I trust, so far subsided in 
the Catholic Body, that past transactions 
may be mentioned without acrimony, and 
serve as Historical Lessons, to guard your- 
selves against the impressions of that subtle 
vice, and to discourage it, if you should ever 
find it still lingering in any of your neigh- 
bours. 

*' If you have any just idea of the compre- 
hensive virtue of Charity (and she is the 
Queen of all virtues} you must know that 
she cannot subsist in the confined heart of 
that man, who fancies all merit included in 
his own little circle, and can see nothing but 
faults in those where others walk. He for- 
gets that God is the common Father of all, 
that he always bestows his best gifts, where 
he discovers most humility.— Nothing can 
be more inconsistent with the spirit of the 
Gospel than these uncharitable prejudices, 
and nothing is more incompatible with the 
spirit and special directions of St. Ignatius. 
A tender regard for our own body is aVirtue ; 
a vain opinion of our own Body is a Vice, 
odious to God and always contemptible to 
Seculars, They always pity the weak man 
who betrays it, especially when they observe 
him feeding on his own vanity, by a sinful 
contempt of others. It begets the worst pas- 
sions : — antipathies, resentments , suspicions, 
rash judgments, hatred, detraction, flow 
from this source. In every Ecclesiastical 
Body there is much good : our business is, 
to .do ail the good in our power, and to imi- 
tate the good in others. We may wish our 
Body to attain the highest gifts, but then 
remember that charity is greater than these. 
If we have the charity of J. C. we shall say 
' Utinam omnes prophetent,* in the 
words of Moses. Far from depreciating or 
undervaluing our fellow-labourers in Christ's 
vineyard, we must observe their Virtues : 
far from feeling any uneasy jealousy at 
their successes, we must wish and pray, for 
the increase and prosperity of their Semina- 
rl83 and Schools; we must say with the 

2 R. 



kinsmen of Rebecca ' Soror nostra es, 
erescas in mille millia' Genesis, xxrv." 

" If we look into the Bodies of our Mis- 
sioners, we must have witnessed many 
great viftues worthy of our imitation For 
my part I have seen and admired all the 
merit of zeal, piety, and modesty united in 
very young Priests of the Secular Clergy. 
If it should be your misfortune to find in 
any one a remnant of ancient sourness , your 
duty will be, not to exasperate it by recri- 
mination, but to soften, to subdue it, by 
humble patience, by ready offices of Charity, 
by great zeal in all the functions of the sa- 
cred Ministry. This is the only retaliation 
which our profession admits." 

■* Oh let us never harbour an idea that 
we are better than others : Jet us always 
revere other Priests, as our fellow labourers, 
our equals, our supeiiors." 

To the same purpose, F. Knott, in his In- 
structions to Missioners, directs them, to 
" speak honourably of all Religious men, 
and of the Venerable Secular Clergy, in ge^ 
neral and particular, and to gain our adver- 
saries by moderation and good Example." 
This is in the spirit of 17th Rule of the Mis- 
sion and constitutions of the Order '^nullum 
officii genus preetermittant^quo adversaries, 
cum opportunum erit, sincere religioseque 
demereri 8f conciliare possint : idqne 
non tiniore contradictionum, vel quod as- 
perius quidquam nobis possit accidere, sed 
lit per hvjusmodi hominum benevolentiam, 
raayis in rebus omnibus Dei obsequium 
^ gloria crescat.'* 

After devoting his great energies for several 
years to train his Novices in the true spirit 
of their holy Patriarch, F. Plowden was de- 
clared Provincial of his English BB, 8 Sept. 
1817. Three years later he was summoned 
to Rome for the election of a General of the 
Order. On his return homewards he died 
suddenly at Jougne. He had travelled 8 
days in good health, and found himself so 
well 12 June, that he proposed to continue 
his journey that night ; but not being able 
to pass the Custom house, until 7 o'clock 
the nest morning, he stopped and retired to 
rest. About 4 the next morning he told 
his attendant, that he had sUpt well ; and 
the person accordingly proceeded to make 
the necessary arrangements for the journey. 
On returning to the chamber and calling 
the Father, he was surprised to receive no 
answer, when, on opening the curtains, he 
perceived him dead ! But he, who had so 
well taught the art of dying to others, was 
well prepared to meet death. 

Peace to the memory of a man of worth, 
A man of Letters and of manners too. 
His precious remains were conveyed to 
the Parish Cemetery, and strange to say, 
with military honors! on his tomb-stono 
appears the following Inscription. 

t 

D. 0. M. 

Memorio; Patris Caroli Plowden, Angli 



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Socielatfs Jesu Sacerdotis, 
Viri 

miro Candore animi 
Pietate ienerrimd 
Seientid summd et multipUci 
Zelo et Lahore indefesso 
Conspicui, 
Qui Roma ad suos contendens 
Morte correptus est 
(g Jougne) 
13 Junii. A. Salutis 1821 
^iatis 79 
R,LP. 

Amongst the numerous productions of his 
pen that vient to press (for he left many 
M. S. S.) we may notice " A short account 
of the Establishment of the New See at 
Baltimore, also a Discourse at the Conse- 
cration of Dr. John Douglass, Bishop of 
CenturicE at Lullworth, on Sunday 19 
December, 1790" pp.32, Svo. Lcndon, 1790. 

2. " Considerations on the modern 
opinion of the Fallibility of the Holy See 
in the Decision of Dogmatical Questions" 
Svo, London, 1790, pp.133, 

3 "■ An answer to the Second Blue Book, 
containing a refutation of the Principles, 
Charges f and Arguments, advanced by the 
Catholic Committee against their Bishops.'' 
Svo London, 1791, pp. 165, 

4. *' Observations on the oath proposed 
to the Roman Catholics.'' Svo London, 1791. 
pp. 

5. *' Letter to the Staffordshire Clergy" 
1792. 

6. " Remarks on the writings of the 
Reverend Joseph Berringion" Svo London, 
1792, pp. 

7. " Remarks on a book intitled Memoirs 
of Gregorio Panzani" 8 vo. Liege, 1794, 
pp.383. 

After publishing this clever work, he pro- 
cured an Italian copy of the Original Memoirs 
of Panzani, from the Vatican Library, w hich 
convicts Dodd of dishonesty as an Historian. 
But F. John Constable, just before Mr. 
Plowden was born, had treated them, in his 
reply to Dodd, as " pretended Memoirs", 
and asks " Can you expect the Publick can 
be so imposed upon, as to mind them"? See 
his M.S. at Stonyhurst, Sections 25 and 26, 

8. " A Letter in which the Reports of 
the Cisalpine Committee on the authenticity 
of the Instrument of Catholic Protestation 
lodged in the British Museum, are ex- 
amined." Svo. London, 1796, pp. 

N.B. In some of the preceding works 
certain tart and acrimonious expressions, 
and personalities occur, which his riper and 
better judgment regretted. The advice 
*' Nemini dantes ullam offensionem" sho\i]d 
ever be remembered and cherished. Great 
truth is contained in the remark of Hen. 
IV. "On prend plus de mouches avec une 
cuileree demiel, qu' avec vingt tonneaux 
de vinaigre." 

9. " The Letters of Clericus to Laicus. 
They appeared originally in the Pilot 



Newspaper, as the Times refused to admit 

them, in reply to the Scurrilous Diatribes of 
Mr. Blair, an Apothecary, who assumed the 
name of Laicus Mr. Dallas, in his " New 
Conspiracy against the Jesuits detected and 
exposed" has carefully re-printed them." 
Svo. London, 1815. 

10. *' The Case is altered" in a letter ad- 
diessed to the Roman Catholics of Wigau. 
Svo 1818, pp: 21, printed by J. Brown, 
" this title reminds one of the curious co- 
incidence of expression in L'Estrange's 
Fables," Folio, Ed. p. 441, where this 
Writer introduces the Wolf saying, " Why 
then the case is altered quoth Plowden." 
Mr. Plowden printeda few detached sermons 
and occasionally wrote in the Gentleman's 
Magazine, and in St. James's Chronicle. 
We have already mentioned his interesting 
Narrative of the Destruction of the English 
College at Bruges. He also compiled an 
account of the preservation of the Society in 
W^hite Russia. Indeed his pen was never 
idle. " Dominus dedit eifortitudinem et 
usque in senectutem permansit virtus" 
Eccles: c, 46. v, 10. 

In concluding this feeble memoir, I wish 
to testify my personal gratitude to this ta- 
lented and vetjerable Father. During eleven 
years at Stonyhurst, 1 had the happiness of 
possessing him as my Spiritual Director: he 
was also pleased to take an interest in my 
literary improvement : his library was always 
open to me : his rich-stored mind was ever 
ready to satisfy my enquiries, and to instruct 
my ignorance. His company and conversa- 
tion first gave me a relish for these researches. 
Whatever merit there may be in any of my 
Historic Collections, 1 wish to be placed 
to his account : let the blame of what is de- 
fective and incorrect, be charged and fixed 
on me alone. To him I can apply the forci- 
ble and pathetic appeal of St. Paulinus to 
Ausonius. 

" Patrone, Prceceptor , Pater 
Gratia prima tibi tibi, gloria dtbita cadat > 
And here I venture to recommend young 
Members of the' Province (who, I take it 
must be inquisitive for knowledge) to revere 
the hoary head, to court the company and 
conversation of those, whose wisdom has 
been enriched and dignified by the experience 
of multiplied years. If this advice were 
better attended to, many interesting anec- 
dotes, and points of valuable information, 
which elude the notice of general history, 
while they are recent and familiar, would 
often be perpetuated by Tradition, and 
transferred to record, and thus be secured 
from the gulph of oblivion. 

In the Catholic Advocate, p. 264 of 15 
July, 1821, is his Biographical Sketch, Q. if 
not from the pen of the Right Reverend Dr. 
Milner ? 

Plowden, Edmund, younger brother of 
Francis, both " were admitted at Night, 2 
December, 1682, into the Novitiate of Watten 
by the name of Perot." After teaching a 



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course of Humanities at St. Omer, he was 
ordered to the Mission, where he passed by 
the name of Gage, He was promoted to the 
ranli of a Professed Father, 2 February, 
1702. O.S. I find from the Provincial's 
Book that he was declared rector of his 
Brethren in the College of St. Ignatius. 
28 August, 1727. At the expiration of three 
years he was summoned to Liege College, to 
fill a similar office for thesame period. Re- 
tiring to Ghent, he died there 3 September, 
1740, at the good old age of 76. See Gage 
Edmund. 

Plowden, Francis, abovemenlioned. 
On the English Mission he sometimes went 
by the name of Simons; was professed in 
1698. In the early part of the ISth century 
he occurs Procurator, at Paris. In 1728 he 
was living at Antwerp. He died atWatten, 
22 June, 1736, aet. 75. 

Plowden, Joseph ; admitted 7 September 
1676. This zealous and charitable Father 
caught his d«ath in France, during his at- 
tendance on the sick and wounded soldiers, 
6 February, 1692, aet. 37. 

Plowden, Percy, (uncle to F. F.Charles 
and Robert P.) admitted 7 June, 1693, 
Prof, in 1707: was Rector of the English 
College, at Rome, from the spring of 1731, 
to the autumn 1734. On 21 J an. 1 735, was 
declared Rector of the House of Probation 
at Ghent, thence proceeded to St. Omer ; 
where he filled a similar office^ from 22 Oc- 
tober, 1739 to 31 July, 1742. Retiring 
then to Watten, he prepared himself for 
eternity, which he entered 21 September, 
1745, set. 73. Eminent himself for devotion 
to the incomparable rao:'ier of J.C. he sought 
to propagate this spiri' in the hearts of the 
faithful, by translating " Segneri's Devout 
Client of the Blessed Virgin." and wrote 
the excellent preface to it. Was he the au^ 
thor of " Practical Methods of performing 
the ordinary Actions of a Religious Life 
with Fervour of Spirit," printed at London, 
in 1718? 

Plowden, Richard, (elder brother of 
Percy,) a man of superior merit, and gifted 
with the special talent of Government. 
Joined the Society in 1679; eighteen years 
later was admitted to the Four Vows of the 
Order. For several years tanght Theology 
at Liege. In 1704 was appointed Rector 
of the College there: at the expiration of 
four years, was required to fill the same 
situation at St. Omer: and at Rome, from 
the spring of 1712, till late in 1715, when 
he was called to be Provincial of his Breth- 
ren. On retiring from that dignity, he was 
re-appointed Rector of Liege for another 
quadriennium : and then 22 May, O. S. 1725 
was again declared Rector of St. Omer. 
During this second presidency, viz, on 
Thursday night, 4 October, 1725, in his let- 
ter to F. Eberson, Rector of Liege, 7 Oc- 
tober, he says *' The Fire broke out in our 
Study place, about H ^ (P. M.) and burnt 
with that violeace, that in a little lime ell 



the building was consumed. From thenco 
it communicated itself to the great Square, 
or new Buildiug of the College on both sides, 
and ran on with that prodigious force, that 
there was no stopping it, and by four in the 
morning, the whole Square was burnt down, 
and nothing left standing but the walls. 
"With much ado we saved the Church, the 
Sodality, and that wing where the kitchen is. 
The Scholar's Infirmary and Basse Court 
were not touched. And this is all that re- 
mains of our College. By a great mercy 
of God, nobody was hurt, tho' several had 
but just lime to save themselves — Tis' a 
melancholy sigl.t to see such a College re- 
duced to this condition. God's Holy Will 
be done. However we are resolved to go on 
and not breakup, nor send any Scholars 
away, and I trust in God we shall make a 
shift, till Providence furnish us means to 
rebuild. " 

In a 2ud letter to the same, 21 October, 
1725, he says " no endeavours shallbe want* 
Ing on our side to support ourselves in a 
tolerable way for the present, and to try to 
procure where-withal to resettle the College 
in statu guo.'* 

Great and meritorious were his exertions 
to provide conveniently and comfortably for 
his large community. In aletter tothesame 
Reverend Friend, dated 4 May, 1727, he 
says " To day we dine for the first time in 
our New Refectory, which is very handsome, 
being something higher than it was, and 
paved with marble and other stones, and a 
new wainscoat all round : the ceiling is also 
much better than it was. We hope to have 
the Sodality ready for next Sunday, to re- 
sume our devotions there." 

From necessity the Community had been 
obliged to use the Sodality Chapel for the 
Refectory. 

In a letter from F. Richard Hyde, 1 1 No- 
vember, 17 25, to F. Eberson, I read, that 
this accidental fire could never have happened 
at a worse time, or be more fatal in all its 
circumstances. We had not aboved^lSO in 
the house : all our winter clothing for Fa- 
thers and Scholars, was ready made, and all 
lost : all the Scholars' bedding, with most 
of the Fathers burnt — all their gowns, bocks 
musical instruments, all lost; so that I count 
the loss of moveables greater than than that 
of the house. — A magazine of books inalbis, 
which were in the room that used to be the 
first Prefect's, saved the church; for they 
being very closely corded up, the fire could 
never pierce them ; and the Engine con- 
tinually played from the streets on them.— 
We begin the foundations of the New Schools 
to-morrow : and if Godsends money, I hope 
they may be finished by the end of next 
May." 

On 13 May, 1728, F. Plowden retired 
from the Rectorship of St. Omer, and 15 
September, 1729, finished his laborious and 
useful course at Watten, aged 66. 

Plowden, Rohert, elder brother of F 



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Charles P. was born 27 January, 1740 : em- 
braced the Institute of St. Ignatius, in 1756; 
was ordained Priest 2 October, 1763, and 
for some time was Confessor totheTheresian 
Nuns, at Hoogstraet. His first Mission was 
at Arlington, Devon, which he served from 
September, 1777, until October, 1787, when 
a wider field for his zeal and talents, was 
prepared for him at Bristol. The Chapel 
on his arrival was a miserable room in a still 
more miserable situation, within a dismal 
court called St. Jame's Back, and could only 
contain from 60 to 80 persons. He under- 
took the erection of a much more capacious 
one in Trenchard St. which be opened 
27 June, 1790: and near it he built a 
convenient house for the Incumbent, and 
an excellent Charity School. To his inde- 
fatigable exertions, the Mission of Swansea 
is also greatly indebted. F. P. was frank, 
disinterested, zealous, and bountiful to the 
poor, and during a residence of nearly 30 
years in Bristol, secured the favour, the es- 
teem and respect ofihe public. But at length 
he marred his usefulness, and departed from 
the spirit of the Society of Jesus, by pur. 
suing the wrongheaded course of attacking, 
in the Publt, the Lenten Pastoral of his 
Bishop, d& < Taunton, I February, 1815. 

The passage which he so unbecomingly 
censured, is as follows. 

'* Now, My Beloved, to do penance, to 
bring forth fruits worthy of penance, it is 
neces8ary,^rs«, that yoa should bewail wiJh 
sincere and supernatural sorrow the sins by 
which you have offended your good and 
merciful ijrod, with a firm purpose of oflfend- 
ing him no more. Secondly. Under the 
gospel dispensafioa, it is required that you 
should have recourse to that remedy which 
Jesus Christ has left in his Church, and 
through which the fruits of his passion are 
applied to souls properly disposed, for the 
forgiveness of all sins committed after bap- 
tism: your penance, therefore, will be il- 
lusory aod fruitless, if, having it in your 
power, you neglect to comply with the pre- 
cept of making a sincere confession of your 
sins to those, to whom Christ has said, 
•whose sins you forgive they are forgiven 
them, and whose sins you retain they are re- 
tained. Thirdly. It is required that you 
seriously endeavour to atone for your past 
sins by works of self denial, mortification and 
penance." 

For such uncalled for, such disrespectful and 
unprofessional proceeding, he incurred his 
Bishop's displeasure, and the Provincial, F. 
Marmaduke Stone, was commanded by the 
Bishop to remove him at once from Bristol, a 
Mission, "where I had laboured so long, and 
which was created* 6i/ the Jesuits" as F,P. 

* This statement we believe to be strictly correct. 
Towards the end of Charles the Second's rei^n, 
Monsr, Jorevin (as quoted by Mr. Evans the Histo- 
rian ofiBristol (Vol. 11, p.306) informs us " that one 
cannot hear Mass at Bristol, although it is a Port 
frequented by many Catholics, Flemish, French. 
Spaniards and Portuguese." The only Priest that 



expressed himself in his letter to F.C, Husen- 



I subsequently meet there was a Jesuit of the name 
of Lallart.but I find no mention of any resident Fa- 
ther in Bristol until F Scudamore was fixed there in 
1738. Until his death forty years later, he officiated 
in what is called St. James's Back, abovementioned . 
He was succeeded by F. Fontaine fur about two years, 
when the Rev. Thomas Brewer was appointed by 
his Superiors to replace him . From a most respecta • 
ble Gentleman who has resided in Bristol since 1786, 
1 learn the following particulars " I vras often in- 
vited to dine at Mr Willoughby 's at Brisslington 
Wick, and there became acquainted with the Rev. 
James Parker and the Rev, James Adams, Ex- 
Jesuits, and I heard much conversation about the 
intended new Chapel in Bristol, and about the ex- 
ertions of their Rev. Brethren for the purchase from 
Mr, Robert Bayley, of a Messuage in Trenchard St. 
and shortly after of some land, adjoining to it, of 
Mr, Trottman, who was a merchant Tailor, and had 
a drapery shop at the corner house of St, Stephen's 
avenue in Clare Street. From the personal friends 
of FF. James Parker, and Robert Plowden, and 
from the Protestant Spanish Wool Merchants Van- 
derhurst and Co. Hill and Sons, Haythorn and Co, 
Powel Brothers and Co, considerable sums were ob. 
tained, and a rich Commoner, Mr. Piggot.of Brockiey 
Court, presen ted F. Plowden with £100, and subscri- 
bed two guineas a jear for a seat in the Chapel, 
which as a Protestant he never occupied. From the 
Congregation, which was then generally poor, the 
Collection was small, hardly sufficient to pay for the 
seats, and even this collection formed by a Commit- 
tee of the congregation was lost ; for they placed itin 
the hands of Fitz-Heniy, an Irish Merchant, who 
shortly after became a Bankrupt. 

" That the services of the good Fathers were duly 
valued by the worthy Bishops Walmesley, and 
Sharrock, you will perceive by the following 
Document. 

" 'Whereas, it is well known, that the Members of 
the society of Jesus having for many years past ex- 
erted their zeal in serving the Catholics of Bristol and 
its environs, with very slender temporal emolu- 
mants, and have lately procured considerable sums 
towards the erectionof a Chapeland Dwelling House 
for an Incumbent, by which means all spiritual 
succor maybe insured to the said Catholics, in fu- 
ture. We, Charles Walmesley, Bishop of Rama, 
V. A. and William Sharrock, Bishop ofTelmessus, 
Coadjutor Bishop, willing to acknowledge and en- 
courage such laudable exertions, have e ngaged for 
ourselves and Successors, as far as our powers ex- 
tend, 10 admit a Member of the House of Liege, as an 
Incumbent of the said Chapel, as often as the place 
shall become vacant, provided always that the per- 
son presented for our approbation, or that of our 
Successors, shall be possessed of such learning, piety 
and zeal, and such qualifications, as may appear to 
us, or our Successors, proper to promote the good 
of Religion in general, and the welfare of the Con- 
gregation of Bristol, in particular, in default of which 
we hold the present Engagement null and void. 

Signed, Charles Bishop of Rama, V. A. 
Gregory William, Bishop ofTelmessus, Coadjutor. 

Bath ; 16 September. 1789, 
This Engagement was subscribed to 20 March, 1812 
by Bemardine, Bishop of Thespiae, V. A.' 

" Besides the sacrifices made by the Jesuits m . 
dividually and collectively, the Rev. Robert Plow- 
den erected the Chapel House at his own private 
cost, and held possession thereof, until he was for- 
cibly driven from it by an order of the Bishop, 
contrary to the oath that Prelate had taken in public 
Court, that no Pope, Prelate or Ecclesiastical person 
of the R. Catholic Church, has in virtue of his spi- 
ritual character any right, directly or indirectly, to 
any civil or temporal jurisdiction, power or authority 
within this realm, or has any right to interfere di<. 
rectly or indirectly in its civil governtaent. or to 
enforce the performance of any spiritual or ecclesi- 
astical duty by any civil or temporal means. The 
late Robe/t Plowden, having shewn me the Bishop's 
order for his quitting Bristol, (not the Mission) but 
Bristol itself, insfanltr. I wrote him a letter with the 



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"Oeth, Esq. from Swynnerlon, 9 Sept. 1818. 
How much wiser he would have shewn 
himself, had he followed the advice of 
I'horaas a Kernpis, in 9ih ch. 1 lib. of Imi- 
tation of Christ!* 

*The following apology for the Ten. old man ap- 
peared in the Bdstol Mercury. 

To the Printer of the Bristol Mercury. 
Sir, having been kindly indulged on a former oc- 
casion, I be? leave to trespass on your goodness, 
that I may insert in your paper the following 
melancholy occurrence. Unbiassed by preju- 
dice, unsolicited and independent of any set or 
Society of Men of every description, I come forward 
In justification of a friend, whose character in this 
City commands more respect, love and veneration, 
than all the effusions of friendship can suggest. The 
case of Reverend Robert Plowden is the subject of 
this address to the Roman Catholics of this Town in 
particular, and to the generous and well disposed 
Public at large. On Saturday preceding the com- 
mencement of this Lent, he received the Lenten 
Instructions, which he was ordered to read on 
Sunday, the ensuing day ; but perusing the said 
Instructions, he was convinced tn his own mind, 
that a proposition or sentence contained in them was 
not correctly worded, and as he thought, in itself 
ambiguous and approximating to a Baylstical error. 
Thus conscientiously prepossessed in his own 
opinion, bethought himself obligated to explain the 
Catholic sense, and to exculpate the Author from 
intentional error; nay I have been told by very 
Tospectable men of good sense, honour and integrity, 
who heard him, that the Reverend Mr. Plowden did 
not utter one disrespectful word in the Pulpit ; on 
the contrary, they clearly perceived, that whatever 
hesaid on the subject, was dictated by the impulsory 
act of his conscience. However, the whole pro* 
ceeding reached the knowledge of his Ecclesiastical 
Superior, which is supposed to have been misre- 
presented ; and consequently, it has given rise to 
much displeasure. Granted that Mr. Plowden is in 
the wrong, as is generally aereed on by the Clergy 
and Regulars of every Religious Order; as soon as 
he was apprised ofit by his Friends, immediately he 
wrote an apology by asking pardon for an act of 
indiscretion in mentioning his Bishop's name ; and 
by submitting himself to any reparation for a given 
•offence, that might be demanded. — With permission 
I beg leave to canvass this business, and to ask, 
"Who is theproscribed Memberof the Roman Catholic 
Church ? What is the fault alledged against him ? 
and what is the penalty inflicted? To descant on 
Che sterling worth of this man of God, would be to 
bestow onhim a just eulogium due to his merits. 
His time spent in the hovels of the poor, enduring 
want, penury and sickness; his daily visits to the 
Ijospitals and prisons, to give spiritual consolation 
to the afflicted and distressed : his indefatigable 
aeal in instructing the little children, adult, and 
Christians, of every denomination, in the duties of 
the morality of the Gospel, bespeakvolumes of praise, 
love and respect, to which his well-known character 
is entitled. What is his fault? To say, that he has 
been mistaken in a decision on the ambiguity of 
expression ia his Ecclesiastical Superior's Instruc- 
tions; and that in mentioning the Bishop's name, he 
his committed an act of imprudenceand indiscretion, 
is not a crime or canonical fault, which alone can 
condemn him to the severity of the Law ; but it can 
only bo deemed by impartial and good men, an 
error in judgment. What is the penalty? In this 
land of British freedom, can it be credited, that the 
Venerable Pastor of the Roman Catholic Chapel of 
this olty, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, is or- 



consent o\ the late Cardinal Weld and George 
Blount Esq stating that his Lordship had assumed 
a power which even the King had no right to assume 
namely, of banishing a subject without Trial. The 
Rev. Robert Plowden, was not allowed to make a 
»ale of his furniture on his own premises, but 
obliged to remove the same to Mr. Haril's Sale 
Room." 

2s. 



]n a letter to me, dated Cannington, 13 
December, 1817, from the Right Reverend 
Dr. ColliDgridge, his Lordship says b" at- 
testations from nearly 40 Divines, some of 
the greatest eminence (and many more might 
have been obtained, if asked for) poured in 
upon me on the occasion of his attack on my 
Pastoral, all unanimously condemning his 
opinion. In his own College, as Mr. Stone 
repeatedly assured me, it was also censured 
without exception ; and the Cardinal Pre- 
fect of the Propaganda, did not hesitate to 
say, of the Passage found fault with by Mr, 
P. " est Expressio Catholica." The only 
way to excuse the Reverend F. is to believe 
that old age and infirmities had impaired his 
intellects. 

On quitting Bristol, F, Plowden repaired 
to the Midland District. His friend. Bishop 
Milner,* placed him at Swynnerton; but 
after some time he retired, viz, 4 July, 1820 
to Wappenbury, where he rested from his 
labors at 3 P. M. 17 June, 1823. Accord- 
ing to his special request, he was buried on 
the outside of theNorthWall of Wappenbury 
Chapel: the Reverend Mr. Crosbie of 
Leamington, performed the funeral service. 

* The following last letter of this prelate tha*t 
appeared in print, maybe inte resting to our readers : 

TO THE 

REV, JOHN GARBE TT, M. A. 
Rev. Sir, 

I return you thanks for the copy ot the printed 
letter, which you have sent to me : and intended to 
publish some remarks upon it, but Ifind my health 
too bad, and myself too near to the awful moment 
when we must each of us give an account of our 
conduct with respect to every fellow-creature, with 
whom we have been in any way connected to be able 
Ito write any more for the public. I must, thare- 
ore, satisfy myself with assuring you that I have, in 
ray opinion, sufficient grounds for every assertion, 
which I have made in my •' End of Religious Con- 
troversy," concerning the sentiments of certain Di- 
vines of the Church of England and others, and 
that I am convinced it is no calumny, but rather a 
commendation, to say that they entered, or sought 
to enterat the close of theirlives,into the one sheep- 
fold of the one Shepherd. If you look around you 
sir, you will find many instances of this occurring 
in your own neighbourhood; andlf you inquire, you 
will hear of other persons in a superior rank of life 
besidestbelate Sir John Hippisley, who have profes- 
sed the strictest adherence to the Established Reli- 
gion during life, yet have sent for a Catholic Priest to 
attend them in their last sickness. 

I have the honour to be. Rev. Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
Wolverhampton, March 17, 1826, J* MILNER. 

His Lordship died 19 April following, ajt. 74. 



dered to be banished, in the space of five days, from 
his house, in building which he expended £750. of 
his own money, independently of the contributions 
raised by his friends, in varlouspartsofthis kingdom. 
He is not only compelled to go out of his house, but 
to emigrate from this District, which comprehends 
South Wales and the Western part of England, and 
to seek an Asylum elsewhere, wherever he may be 
permitted to repose his hoary head. — This Is a fair 
and candid statement of my worthy P'riend's hard 
fate ; and as the sole motive ofrevealing every cir- 
cumstance to the Public, is to prevent false conjec- 
tures anyway injurious to a man, so much deserving 
the thanks of his fellow citizens, I hope that this 
short narr.ition of facts will not give offence. — I am 
Sir. your very humble servant, 

March 17, 1815. Philanthropist. 



17-2 



The Bristol Observer of 2 July, 1823, and 
nounced his death with a spirited and 
honourable Elogiura. — A good picture of 
this venerable Father was taken by Mathew 
Brown, and was engraved in mezzotinto by 
C.Turner. 

1. We have from his pen, the sermon 
delivered at the opening of his Chapel. 8vo. 
Bristol, 1790— a meagre performance. 

2. " The Elevation of the soul to God," 
a translation from the French^ 2 Volumes, 
12mo. Exeter» No date is affixed ; and I 
suspect the work was published whilst Mr, 
P. was serving Arlington. 

3. A letter to his brother Francis Plow- 
den, Esq. * Conveyancer of the Middle 
Temple, oq his work iatitled " Jura Ang- 
lorum." 8vo. London, 1794. 

4. A letter on Theological Inaccuracy Svo. 
London, 1795, pp. 168. 

I have seen some printed letters to his 
Brethren *' of the late English Province of 
Jesuits," and should have thought better 
of his Discrctioiij i( he bad never written 
them. 

Plowdin, Thomas, (alias Dean) born 
actually in Spain : and admitted an Alumnus 
of the English College at Rome, in 1706. 
In vain 1 search for other details than his 
death at Ghent, 17 September, 1719. 

PiuNKET, Robert, born in England, 23 
April, 1752: joined the Order 9 October, 
1769: subsequently proceeded to Maryland, 
became the first Rector of Georgetown Col- 
legef He died in Maryland, A. D. 1815, 

•Pocket, Francis, of Flanders, admit- 
ted as a Lay. brother 9 October, 1729, and 
finished his earthly course at Watten, 8 
May, 1743, aet. 44. 

PoiNTLE, Thomas, born in Paris in 1738, 
when very young joined the Societyi On 
1 April, 1775, was promoted to Priesthood, 
and appointed a Canon of the Collegiate 
Church of Champeaux,inhis native Diocese. 
Driven from his Country by the French 
Revolution, he fled at first to the Netherlands 
and thence to England . He was too happy 
to reunite himself to the revived Society, 
and died 11 December, 1818. He had pub- 
lished an Abridgment of the History of the 
Order of the Knights of Jerusalem ; but 
which I am unable to describe. 

FoLB, or Pool, Anthony. I meet with 
two of this name.* one, after studying iR 
Spain, arrived at Liege in 1614 ; but in vain 

1 attempt to pursue his history. 

The other was formed a spiritual Coad- 
jutor 2 February, 1669, and died at Liege 
13 July, 1692. 

Pole, Charles, made his simple Vows 
at Watten, in 1690 ; after serving the office 
of Minister, proceeded to the Mission, and 
died, I believe, at Sutton, near Guildford, 

2 July, 1740, at, 71. Prof. 34. 

• In p. 227, Supplement, Biblioth. Script. S.J. 
Rome. 1814, Is a laughable notice of F. Robert 
Plowden. 



Pole, Francis. The elder was of a 
Derbyshire family. When he had served 
the Mission 2 years, he petitioned to be en* 
rolled amongst the Novices of the Society. 
His request was granted. He passed to 
the reward of his pious labours 4 Novem- 
ber, 1684, aet. 60, See. 31. 

The younger born 15 December, 1711 ; 
at the age of 17 became a Novice, and 
eighteen years later a Professed Father. He 
ended his days at Snaresfleld, in the County 
of Hereford, 23 December, 2767. 

Pole, George, died in Maryland, 31 
October, 1669, set. 41. Soc. 13, Prof. 3. 1 
read in a letter of his Provincial F. Joseph 
Simeons, that he had been employed in that 
arduous mission two years, when God called 
him to himself, that when the plague raged 
in London, thfetf years before his death, he 
had heroically devoted himself to the ser- 
vice of the infected. 

Pole, Gervase. Three members of this 
name appear in the Fasti. Of the first 1 
learn that he passed from his missionary 
labours to his repose and recompence 15 
April, 1648, set. 70, Soc 35, Prof. 23. 

The 2ad was truly a man of God, and 
the happy instrument of many conversions 
His successful zeal so inflamed the hatred 
of the enemies of religion, that he was 
obliged to abscond, and the inconveniences 
and close confinement he had to suffer in 
order to elude their malice and revengeful 
spirit, had such an effect on his health as 
to accelerate his death. He departed to 
our Lord in the College of the Immaculate 
Conception, 14 March, 1641, Soc. 35, Prof. 
19, set, 70 " Operarius valde industrius^ 
et vir plane Apostolicus. Ah Orationis 
spiritu, cm multum se dabat, fiuxeratin 
eo lucrandi Deo homines Talentum'' An. 
Lit. 1641. 

Alas ! how many have to regret in their 
last moments that they have taken more 
pains to cultivate taste and science, than to 
correct and improve the heart and nourish its 
uninterrupted union with Almighty God ? 

♦The 3rd was a Temporal Coadjutor, 
who finished his pious course at Ghent, 26 
April, 1690. 

Pole, John. Three also occurs of this 
name. The 1st is mentioned in p. 290, of 
More's Hist, as having died in Spain, about 
the same time as F. Anthony Hoskins, con- 
sequently about the year 1615. The 2n'd 
was from Spinkhill, in Derbyshire, as F. 
More relates, p, 286, Hist. He had joined 
the Order in 1598, was sent to fill the office 
of Prefect of Studies and Professor of Di- 
vinity, in the Seminary of Valladolid, but 
died at St. Lucar, in 1604, before he had 
completed his Thirtieth year. " Vir a 
virtute et doctrind commendalus.^' 

Of the 3d I can only glean that he died in 
England, 3 September, 1666. 

Pole, James, was admitted a Novice in 
1707, aet. 22, and a Spiritual Coadjutor eleven 
years later. It appears that he died before 



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the year 1726; but I search for the date in 
vain. 

In p. 96 we have mentioned another Fa- 
ther of this name. 

Pole, Michael, I meet with two mem- 
bers so called. The 1st whodied in England 
before receiving Priesthood, 7 April, 1687, 
set. 26. Soc. 6. 

The 2nd was the Incumbent at Wardour 
for some time. He died in England, 23 
April, 174B, set. 61. Soc 41. He was also 
calleJ Foxe. 

Pole, Peter, born 12 November, 1728, 
admitted a Novice 1 October, 1748, a Pro- 
fessed Father 2 February, 1763: was em « 
ployed in the Paraguay Mission. In a letter 
of F.Thorpe, dated 24 December, 1785,1 
read " A Spanish Jesuit among the Exiles 
here (Rome,') gives a good character of Mr. 
Poole, to whom in America he Was master 
of Philosophy and Divinity. Ke tells roe, 
he was taken a lad in an English Prize, and 
given by the Spanish Capturer to the Rector 
of one of our Colleges in South America, 
who put him in a Seminary, from whence 
he entered the Society." 

After the expulsion of his brethren from 
Paraguay, he went to Liege, but ended his 
days in London 9 January, 1793. In the 
World Newspaper of 10 October, 1831, 
under an article " Anecdotes of Brazil" we 
read " it is here, in South America (for the 
discovery of most of its valuable productions, 
Europe is indebted to the Jesuits,) that the 
lover of humanity may be permitted to 
mourn over their fall. Theirsingularsystera 
of government at the Missions, will be best 
estimated by comparing the present deplo- 
rable state of morals in those districts, with 
the period when they were subject to the 
jurisdiction of their Order." 

Pole, Touissant, admitted 7 September, 
1694: ordained priest in 1703 : died in Eng. 
land 22 May, 1710, set. 37. 

PooLE, William, — This good man was 
born 16 December, 1752: at the age of 18 
began his Noviceship. Soon after his or- 
dinations, was employed in tha Derbyshire 
Mission ; but in January, 1790 accepted the 
charge of the faithful in Exeter, where he 
opened its present chapel of St. Nicholas, 6 
January, 1792. To this Missionary estab- 
lishment he was a benefactor, and to his 
flock he was a kind and attentive Pastor. 
Removing from this city in January, 1807, 
he was subsequently appointed to the Mis- 
sion of Bedford, near Leigh, in Lanca«hire. 
Under his auspices, religion greatly flou- 
rished there, so that he was under the neces- 
sity of enlarging the chapel. This worthy 
Father died of a paralytic stroke about 7 
PM., of Friday 27 February, 1828, and 
was buried in a vault outside his chapel. 

PoRDAGE, William. In the Annual 
Letters of 1710, I find " Eyregie paries 
suas agit novus Rector Collegii SS. Apos- 
to lor um P. Gulielmus Porclage." I be- 



lieve that he died at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, 
30 August, O. S, 1736, set, 84. Soc. 64. 

Port, Thomas, of Derbyshire : joined 
the Order at the age of 22, and was Profes- 
sed 19 April, 1626. This holy man was a 
martyr to the stone. On his death at St. 
Omer's College (where he had formerly 
been Rector) 7 January, 1661, the body 
was opened, and a stone extracted of 23 
ounces, Troy Weight I 

*PoNCELET, Henry, of Liege. This 
worthy Lay-brother rested from his labors 
17 September, 1783, set. 62. Rel. 31 

*PoLLARD, Francis, of Sussex died at 
Watten 2 September, 1690, set. 76. Soc. 52. 

Pond, Thomas, born at Belmont, near 
Winchester, 29 May, 1539. His Father 
William Pond, Esq., married Anne, sister 
ofThomasWriotesley, Earl of Southampton. 
After receiving a liberal education at St. 
Mary's College, Winchester, he repaired to 
London to prosecute the study of Law, and 
upon the death of his Father, attached him- 
self to the Court of Elizabeth, where he 
was distinguished by his superior grace in 
dancing; but at length worried with cha- 
grin and disgust, he sought in religion for 
that peace and comfort, which the world 
cannot give. As early as 1 December, 
578, he had obtained admission into the 
Society (See pp. 45-6 of F. More's Hist.) 
Few men suffered more in person and pro- 
perty for the undaunted profession of the 
Catholic Faith. His letter to F. Persons, 
dated 3 June, 1609, is glowing with zeal 
and a religious spirit. He bad then been 
confined in 10 different prisons during the 
previous thirty years, and"inthat space 
four thousand pounds spoil suffered of my 
substance," On one occasion, when 
brought before the Court, he says " laying 
ray hand upon the breast of ray cloak (cas- 
sock or gown) I protested to them that I 
would not change it for the queen's crown." 
He had a good Esquire's Estate" but it \»as 
so pillaged by fines and exactions, that even 
his enemies were ashamed of their cruelty : 
" Yea Salisbury himself upon ray plaint, 
telling him that our gospel taught out of 
Christ's own mouth, that it was more bles- 
sed to giv6, than to take away, as they had 
taken so much from me, took so much com- 
passion on me for his own honour, as to 
give me back d^20. for my relief, of 6^200, 
which from a Ward that fell to me of one of 
ray tenants, he had taken from me and given 
to his secretary.'^ 1 he good old man sub- 
scribes himself " one of your most devoted 
children, although hitherto least beneficial." 

At length James 1st, restored the venerable 
confessor to Liberty ; and he actually died 
5 March, 1615, in the very same apartment 
at Belmont, in \\hich he had been born 76 
years before. See his life in Tanner. 

PoRTEu, John (vere Corbusier,) born 10 
June, 1707: admitted in 1726. Professed 
2 t-'ebruary, 1741 : died at Scortney Castle, 
8 September, 1765. 



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PoRTEH, James, born in the Low Coun- 
tries of English Parents, 9 November, 1733 : 
enrolled himself among the Children of St. 
Ignatius in 1752 and 18 years later, made 
the Solemn Profession of the Four Vows. 
Renouncing a considerable estate in Lin- 
colnshire, he was content to lead the life of 
a poor Missionary, at Salisbury and Stape- 
hill. He retired at length to Portico near 
Liverpool, where he peacefully ended his 
days, 28 March, 1810. 

Porter, Nicholas, born at Porto S. 
Maria, near Cadiz, 10 September, 1724. 
His Father was English : his Mother was 
Spanish, In 1741, he entered the Novitiate, 
and 18 years later became a Professed Fa- 
ther. For a short time he lived in the 
English College at Rome; thence departing 
for Spain, was involved in the storm that 
burst on his brethren, 4> April, 1767, and 
was banishedfrom that kingdom. Previous 
to the general suppression of the Order, this 
good-natured little man settled himself in 
Rome, and for a short time was Spiritual 
Father in the English College there, but 
subsequently accepted the situation of Tutor 
to the sons of Mr. Denham, the Banker in 
Slrada Rosella. When that Banker tailed, 
F. Porter retired to St. Carlo: and strange 
to say, got himself initiated in the Third 
Order of St. Francis. Soon after this, he 
quirted Rome for Naples, and attached him- 
self to the Family of Palomba, wealthy Mer^ 
chants in that City. In 1797, he returned 
to Rome, and was admitted into the Giesu, 
where he was a fixture until his pious daath, 
25 August, 1802, aet; 78. 

*PoRTLAND, John, (alias Parry,) died 
at Watten, in the year 1621. 

PosTGATE, Ralph. Resided chiefly at 
Rome, was Rector of the English College 
there from 1693 to 1699, and again from 
1704i to the autumn of 1707. He died in 
that city 25 January, 1718. His hand- 
writing is truly indifferent, his letters con- 
firm the truth of his saying that he wrote 
a** most wretched hand." 

* POSTLEWHITE, WiLLIAM, of Westby, 

in the County of Lancashire. This amiable 
and talented young Theologian died sud- 
denly at Stonyhurst, as I well remember, 
just before High IVTass commenced on 
Whitsunday, 12 May, 1799, having barely 
entered his 22nd year. He was the first 
person buried in the Chapel Yard, Stony- 
hurst. 

*PouE, OR PouvEt, DE Philip, admitted 
12 November, 1682. This good Lay- brother 
died at St. Omer, 2 May, 1713, aet. 58. 

PouLTON, Andrew, admitted 31 October, 
1674, aet: 20. He was selected for one of 
the Masters of the Savoy College, London, 
which was opened at Whitsuntide, 1687. 
Thathe was a man of distinguished abilities 
is manifest from the Tracts intitled "Re- 
marks upon Dr. Tenison's narrative foftheir 
conference,^ with a confutation of the 
Doctor's Rule of Faith, and a reply to A. 



Cresner's Vindication, 4to. London, 1687. 
Also *' Some Reflections upon the Author 
and Licenser of a scandalous pamphlet, called 
* The Missionaries art Discovered' with the 
reply of A. Pulton to a challenge made him 
in a Letter prefixed to the said Pamphlet," 
4to. London, 1688, pp. 14. At the Revo- 
lution, he followed the Court to St. Ger- 
maine. In the Annual Letters of 1705, 1 
read of his exploits there " TQabHceresi ad 
Ecclesiam reduxit, ititer quos 7io?i pauci 
natalibus conspicui : plusquam 116 Con- 
fessiones Generales in ed aula audivit. 
In Dissidia, quce etiam lucluosum Jinem 
habitura timebantur^ prolapsos 12 plene 
inter se conciliavit. Et pauperum vera 
Patur dicitur et habetur, ltd perpet u& 
dies noctesque industrid illis procurat 
necessaria Egestatis levamina," 

This truly zealous and benevolent Father 
died at St. Germains, universally regretted, 
5 August, 1710. aet. 56. 

PoultoUf CharleSf see Palmer^ Charles. 

PouLTON, George, admitted in 1707 : 
died at Watten 20 January, 1739, aet. 50. 

PouLTON, Giles, born 7 September, 1694 
studied at Rome, where, (io use his own 
expression) he commenced Priest 8 April, 
1719 : admitted i2 December, 1721 : was 
stationed on the Mission at Belgrave, near 
Leicester, and whilst there, was enrolled 
amongst the Professed Fathers in 1731. 
His letter 14 May, 1737, shews that he was 
Chaplain to the Plowdens in Salop, He 
died in London 3 January, 1752, 

PouLTON, Henry, admitted in 1700. On 
receiving Holy Orders he was sent to Ma- 
ryland, where he was carried off by a pre- 
mature death 27 September, 1712, set. 33. 

PouLTON, John, admitted an alumnus 
of the English College at Rome in 1619; 
further particulars I cannot gain. 

PouLToN, Thomas.— I have met with 
three of this name. The 1st, whilst procu- 
rator of his brethren in London, was dis. 
missed from the Order by the Provincial F„ 
Richard Blount, 12 December, 1630, for 
very indiscreet and libellous reflections on 
Cardinal Richelieu, The Provincial apo- 
logized to the Cardinal for the unwarranta- 
ble conduct of his subject ; and received from 
his eminence a very generous and dignified 
reply, dated 13 August that year, expressive 
of his obligations to F. Blount, and of his 
unabated attachment to the Society. " So^ 
cietatem vestram coiui semper, et amavi." 
The officious interference of Dr. Richard 
Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, on this occa- 
sion, and his revealing F.Poulton's letter to 
Mr. George Fortescue, was any thing but 
courteous and friendly. It seems that F. 
Thomas Poulton conducted himself in the 
sequel with so much propriety, as to be 
reinstated in the Order. He died in Eng- 
land 27 February, 1637. 

The second admitted in 1685: died at 
Ghent 1 April, 1725 aet. 29. 

The third born 15 May, 1697 : admitted 



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7 December, 1716: was numbered amongst 
the Professed Fathers al Rome in 1734; af- 
terwards proceeded to Maryland, w'nere he 
filled the office of superior, and therefinished 
his course 93 January, 1749. 

Powell, Charles, admitted in 1679. 
Professed 2 February, 1697 : served the 
Dunkenhalgh Mission for some years. Re- 
tiring to Gheot, the venerable man rested 
from his earthly pilgrimage 15 January 
1738, ffit. 77. 

Powell, Francis, admitted in 1677. 
Prof. 17 July, 1695. After filling ihe office 
of Rector in the English College at Rome, 
at Liege, and at St. Omer, I follow him to 
the Mission in Sussex. Retiring to Liege, 
he there ceased from his labors 23 January, 
1733, set. 75. 

"Powell, Laurence. This Scholastic 
died in England 25 June, 1687, aet 22. Soc. 
3. 

Powell, Richard, died in England 16 
August, 1653. 

*PowELL, Vincent, is said to have died 
at Ingolstadt. 

Powell, William^ — I meet with two 
members of this name. The I st is mentioned 
in p. 23 of More's Hist., as being of the 
Diocese of St. Asaph. He had spent 10 
years in the Order in 1597, had taught Hu- 
manities, and was living at Cologne. This 
is all that P. More could learn of him. 

*The 2ad died a Scholastic at St. Omer, 

8 July, 1681, aet. 23. Soc. 3. 

PoYNTZ, Edward, ( vere Nixon ) admit- 
ted in 1694 : ordained Priest in 1703 : for 
some years was director to the Nuns at 
Bruges, Obiit Watenis II September, 1729, 
aet. 54. 

PoYNTz, John, of a good family in the 
North of Devon, born 2 July, 1709 : admit-, 
fced by the name of Ueaumont in 1732. 
Professed in 1750, On the Mission he often 
passed by the name of Price^ and for 
several years filled the office of Procurator 
of the Province. Though a gentleman of 
the strictest hoiior and principle, and of great 
religious virtue, he was virulently persecuted 
on the pretence of employing undue influence 
with Mrs. Rawe of Trevithick, in Cornwall, 
in the disposal of her property. Deeming 
it prudent to give place to wrath, he quietly 
removed to Liege, where he died 21 (one 
account says second day) May, 1789, at. 
80. 

In a letter of F. J. Thorpe to Henry Lord 
Arundel!, dated Rome 19 September, 1789, 
I read " I have motives of a remote date 
for attesting the Religious virtues of the 
deceased F. Poyntz. He was not truly 
known by Men, who only considered him in^ 
vested with the management of pecuniary 
affairs, 

PoYNTz, John, frequentlycalied Stephens. 
His death at Ghent, G March. 1671, is thus 
recorded in the Annual Letters of that year : 
" E. Domesticis unus P.Joannes Stephani 
Poynesius longd. cegritudine ad maciem 

2t. 



confeetus, el laured eximioB patientiee do^ 
natus, post mulla obita in Soc, munia, et 
vitam innocentissim^ actam, professus 4 
Vol. et omnibus Sacramentis rite muni- 
tus, morti tandem concessit^ ceternum uti 
speramus, victurusJ" 

When F. Poyntz quitted the English Mis- 
sion, he broaght over to St. Omer, as I 
find by F. Richard Barton's Certificate! 
October, 1668, the great bone of the right 
arm of St. Thomas, • Bishop of Hereford. 
This venerable Relick was placed in the 
front of the Altar of the Sodality Chapel 
of St. Omer's College. The Provincial F. 
Joseph Simeons, in the Annual Letters of 
1670, records the blessing bestowed on the 
College by the Saint's intercession. Variis 
morbis in Valetudinario detinebantur 
omnino octodecim et ex iis aliqui pei iclita- 
bantur et vitd, tres afflictabantur Variolis 
et merito timcbatur,ne iniantdjuventute 
ed anni tempestate plurimos is morbus 
pervaderet, Indictus proinde est dies 
Precum 2 Octobris, coram Ven. Sacra- 
mento, expositt etiam brachio S. Thomce^ 
Herefordiensis Episcopi 60 mortuorum 
quondam suscitatione clari, cujus eo die 
Festum agebatur, Mirum dictu ! ne unus 
quidem abeo die Variolas contraxit^ et 
inter breve ttmpus omnes convaluere.'' 

PttAciD, John, admitted 18 March, 1675, 
being then 37 years of age. At the explo- 
sion of Gates's Plot, he was apprehended 
and thrown into York Jail, and tho' in de* 
licate health, and treated with singular in- 
humanity, by the blessing of God he was 
enabled to render efficacious help to his 
fellow prisoners. Discharged on bail, this 
zealous and conciliating Father died 1 April, 
1686. 

* Prater, Richard, admitted in Wales 
" in hora mortis" A. D. 1622. 

* Prescott,Cuthbert. We learn from 
Tanner's ** Societas Europcea," that this 
most diligent Temporal Coadjutor died a 
prisoner for the faith in London, 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1647, set. 65. 

* Preston, Edmund, born at Gorraans- 
ton Castle, Ireland, 14 Feb. 1808 : educated 
at Stoiiyhurst. This most pious Scholastic 
died of a rapid decline at Brookfield Cottage, 
West Teignmouth, on Sunday morning, 24 
September, 1826. By permission of the 
Provincial (F. Charles Brooke) his earnest 
wish was granted to be admitted into the 
Society, and on the Friday previous to his 
decease, the Reverend James Laurenson 

* The consecration of the Saint to the See of 
Hererord, took place at Christ's Church Canterbury, 
8 September, 1275. In the London Edition. (1814) 
of Butler's Life of this Saint (October 2j are seve- 
ral Anachronisms. It is said " In 12S7, his remains 
were translated with great pomp in the presence of 
King Edwaid the Third! " William of Worcester, 
in his Annals, fixes this Translation to 1350. Again 
" the Canonization was performed by Pope John 
the XXII, in 1310, perhaps onthesecond of Octo- 
ber." But this John was not elected Pope until 
1316. The true date should be 17 April. 1320. The 
Bull was copied into the Register of Walter Stapel- 
doD, then Bishop of Exeter, fol. 153. 



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performed the Ceremony. A sarcophagus 
tomb on the North side ofWestTeignmouth 
Church yard, uear the Entrance gate, in- 
closes his remains, and there I copied the 
following Inscription. 

Sacred 

To tlie Memory of the Honourable Edmund Preston 
(Sixtb son of the Right HonouraWe Lord 
Viscount Gormanston. of Gormanston Castle, 
County of Meath, Ireland) 
Who died at Teipnmouth, the 24th of Sept. 1826, 
In the nineteenth year of his age. 

* Preston, Thomas, Sir, was the second 
son of Sir John Preston, who was created a 
Baronet, for his loyalty, 1 April, I644f, and 
died of his wounds received at Fui ness. By 
the death of his elder Brother John, Thomas 
succeeded to the Estate and Title.* He 
married twice ; in vain have I sought for 
the name of his first Lady, who died shortly 
after her marriage^ leaving no issue. By 
his 2nd wife, Mary, daughter of Lord Gary 11 
Molyneaux, he had three children, Isl, 
Francis who died unmarried, 18 December, 
1672. 2nd, Mary, married to William Her- 
bert, ord, Anne, who married in 1685, 
Hugh, the second Lord Clifford, Baron of 
Chudleigh. 

The worthy Baronet within six months 
after the loss of his only son, was deprived 
of his -wife by death, In this affliction he 
sought comfort in Religion, and after due 
deliberation, decided on embracing the In- 
stitute of St. Ignatius. He accompanied 
the Provincial F. George Gray to Watten, 
and enrolled himself amongst the Novices, 
28 June, 1674, being then 31 years of age. 
Tho' he had an excellent capacity, and de- 
fended the whole course of Theology with 
much credit, he never could be induced to 
take Holy Orders. It is certain, as I find 
from a leUer of the Provincial F. John 
Keynes, dated 29 October, 1683, to the 
General, that there was not a little eccen- 
tricity mixed up in his character. Until his 
death at Watten, 27 May, 1709, st. 66, he 
was content to remain in the humble con- 
dition of a Lay-brother. 

Preston, William, was admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1655 1 but where he entered the Society I 
have not been able to discover. I know 
that he was Rector of his Brethren in the 
College of St. Thomas, in 1701, which at 
that time comprehended 17 Members: and 
that he died 14 December, 1702. 

Price, John, born in Cheshire, A.D. 
1576. At the age of 24 he joined the So- 
ciety. After teaching Philosophy and Di- 
vinity at Valladolid and Louvain, with 
distinguished ability, and making the Pro- 
fession of the Four Vows, 4 October, 1614, 
he received orders to prepare for the English 
Mission. For29yeais he continued with 
indefatigable zeal and charity to labour in 
the conversion and satisfaction of souls, 
when God called him to himself, 27 February 

* His sister Elizabeth married William, the 1 1th 
Lord Stourton. Their marriage Settlement bears 
date,.20 August, 1664. 



1645. He was the Author of "Anti- Morton 
or an Apology against Thomas Morton. 
Bishop of Durham" 4to 1640. 

Q. Who was J. P. the Author of the 
" Safegarde from Shipwracke, or Heaven's 
Haven"! Douay, 8vo. 1618— pp. 285. 

Another F. John Price was born near 
Lanherne in Cornwall, 3 August, 1739 : 
entered the Society 14 February, 1758; for 
many years was a Missionary at Liverpool, 
where he died much regretted 5 February, 
1813. He had renewed his vows in the 
resuscitated Society, in May, 1804. 

*PRICE, James, admitted 5 January, 1 750. 
This good Brother died at St. Oraer, 1 2 
January, 1754 set. 23. 

Price, Ignatius, born in Wales, A. D, 
1610: when 24 years old, was numbered 
amongst the children of St. Ignatius. In 
1644, a period of great difficulty and danger, 
he embarked on the English Mission, and 
for 34 years laboured with exemplary zeal 
aad credits At the breaking out of Oates's 
Plot, F. Price was eagerly sought for by 
the Police and informers. For two Months 
" de tugurio in tugurium noctu fugiens, 
nudis aliquando pedibus^ adultd hieme 
per alias nives et profundus aquas lineis 
plerumque vestitus, incidit tandem in vio- 
lentam febrim, et brevi extinctus est." 
He was then living in South Wales, near 
Ragland. F. Charles Baker, then a prisoner 
had sent him his best wishes for his soul's 
happy passage out of this turbulent world, 
to an eternity of rest. He died of fever and 
exhaustion, 16 January, 1679. Another ac- 
count states " post longam et multiplicem 
persecutionem, cum de horreoin horreum, 
de cauld in caulam, imo de hard in haram 
subterfugiendo, exploratorum indaginem 
elusisset, tandem obscurd quidem, sed glo' 
riosd morte defunctus est. Ne in sepul- 
chro quidem Quietem invenit: excusseruni 
sandapzlam, abstuleruntque appensam 
Corpori crucem argenteam ; non Crucis 
amore, sed argenti." 

Pkice, Isaac, one of the first Alumni of 
the English College at Rome ; in 1579^, 
joined the Society, but probably died soon 
after. 

Price, Thomas, related, I think, to Igna- 
tius, admitted in 1600, Soon after his com- 
mencement of his Missionary Career in 
England, he was captured and sentenced to 
perpetual banishment ; but his zeal induced 
him to return to the vineyard, where he 
continued to labor until his happy death at 
London, 23 July, 1625, set, 55. He trans- 
lated into English from the Latin of Tur- 
sellinus " The History of the House of 
Lo?*e«o" 8vo. St. Omer, 1608. pp 540. 

Priciiard, Charles, died in the College 
of St Francis Xavier, 14 March, 1680, aet. 
43. Rel. 17 " vir humilis^ devotus, anima- 
rum zelo et laborum in iisjuvandis sus. 
Qcptorum patientid conspicuus.*' For 16 
years he had been employed in the Mission 
of South Wales, and during the whole of 



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that time, had never seen London ; yet 
Bedloe had the audacity to swear, that this 
inoffensive Father had plotted the death of 
Charles II. and had frequently assisted at the 
Jesuits consultations at London, 1678, to 
assassinate the King and overturn the Go- 
vernment. On such information, a large 
reward was offered for F. Pritchard's ap- 
prehension. We read what follows in the 
Annual Report of 1680, " Missi inprovin- 
ciam exploratores scepius, et diliyentei\ 
sed frustra lalehras omnes illius causa in 
domibus catholicorum perscrutaii sunt. 
Sesquiannum in loco solilario intra domum 
Viri apprime Catholici, paucis etiam do- 
mesticis notus, delituit ; interdiu nun- 
quam e loco pedem efferens ; etiamsi noctu 
in auxilimn animarum tenuiorisfortunae 
subinde longius excurrerct- Sed ista 
cerumnosa vivendi ratio valetudinem cor- 
rupit; et accedente e loco superiore pro- 
lapsione, dum gressum in tenebris tenta- 
ret, mortem acceleravit. In Horto 
demum adjacente debuit clanculum tu- 
mulari, ad prcecavendum hospitis indem- 
nitati, qui, si res in hcerelicorum noiitiam 
emandsset, capite et publicatione bonorum 
luisset.^' 

PuLLEN, JonN, made his Novitiate at 
Rome, as I learn from F. John Gerard's 
autobiography. The old man was socius 
to F. Gerard, and most narrowly escaped 
apprehension, when their house was sear- 
ched by the notorious Justice Young. 

* Putney, William, of Shropshire. 
The Provincial Report of 1655, describes 
him as being then 79 years of age, of which 
period he had spent 28 years in the Society 
and it adds *'juvat nostros in Anglia mul- 
tiplici ministerio." 

PuY, Du, Thomas. This Foreigner often 
passed by the name of Ashton ; was admit- 
ted25 November, 1684, died at Watten 8 
October, 1707, aet. 4,5. 

* Pybourn, John, died at Liege of the 
plague, 2 October, 1637. 

PuGH, Edward, born in Wales, July, 
1777 ; studied at Stonyhurst, where he de- 
fended Divinity, 22 April, 1801, and after- 
wards was Chaplain to the Tempest Family 
at Broughton; but finished his course at 
Pontefract after a short illness, on Tuesday, 
4 October, 1836. His end was calm and 
edifying; His remains were deposited in 
Pontefract Church, 7 October. 

Rand, Thomas, of Oxfordshire ; joined 
the English Province in 1600, and was pro- 
fessed 18 years later. This venerable Fa- 
ther had been Penitentiary at Loretto : after 
serving the English Mission nearly half a 
century, he was called by his master to re- 
ceive his recompence 4 August, 1G57, set. 
82. 

•Rappit, Edward, a Temporal Coadju- 
tor, who finished his earthly course at Wat- 
ten. 9 December, 1675, ait. 37, Soc. 12. 
" Vir ingeniosus ac industrius, et notcv 
erga pauperes charitatis.'' An. L . 



Rastall, Edward, of the city of Glou- 
cester; was admitted with his brother 
John at Rome, in 1568, He was sent to 
Ingolstadt. in Germany, to perfect himself 
in Theology, according to F. More, p. 19, 
Hist. ; but here all traces of bira escape the 
investigation of that writer. Drews fixes 
his death 17 June, 1577. 

Ille pot ens sui 
Lcstttsque deget, cui licet in diem 
Dixisse, vixi. 

Rastall, John. This powerful antago- 
nist of Jewell was educated in Wykham's 
School, Winchester, and at New College, 
Oxford, but, says Wood, p. 265, Vol. 1, 
Athen. Oxon. " left his College (where he 
had always been accounted an excellent dis- 
putant,) his friends and native country for 
conscience sake. After joining the Society 
with the above mentioned Edward, he be- 
cam e one of its brightest ornaments. Whilst 
Rector of the College at Ingolstadt he of- 
fered himself to God as a victim for the life 
of that eminent and saintly Father Paul 
(not Peter as Constable* says) Hoffaeus, 
whose recovery was hopeless. God was 
pleased to accept his generous vow and 
self-devotion, by calling him out of life, 
and restoring the health of his venerable 
Friend. F. Rastall died in the year 1600, 
His holy friend survived until 17 December, 
1608, aet, 84, Soc, 64. 

F. Rastall published 

1. *' A Confutation of a Sermon prO' 
nounced hy Mr. Jewel, at St. Paul's 
Cross." Antwerp, 1564. 

2. ^' Copy of a Challenge taken out of 
the saidlConfutation.'' 8vo Antwerp, 1565. 

3. *' Reply against an answer falsely in- 
tiled * Defence ^the trtdh.'"' Svo Antwerp, 
1565. 

4. A Treatise intitled *• Bsware of Mr, 
Jeivell," Svo. Antwerp, 1566. 

5. " Brief view of the false fFares 
packed up in the nameless Apology of the 
Church of England." Svo. Lcuvain, 1567, 

See More's Hist. p. 19, and Antiq Oxon 
Lib. ii. p. 140. Ath. Oxon, Vol. 1,, p. 265. 
Probably Alegambe and Southwell omit him 
in their Bibliotheca Scriploruna, S. J., as 
these works were published before he en- 
tered the Order. 

• Rayet, Robeet, died at St. Omerin 
1634. 

Raymund, or Rayment, Charles, ad- 
mitted 7 September, 1686, aet. 21. The 
Annual Letters of 1710, after stating that 
the residence of St. George contains thirteen 
members, says "P, Raymundus est egrc' 
gius Superior, essetque par Missionari- 
us^si liberius illi agere per Virum Nobi- 
lemy quicum degit, licerct.^' I look in vain 
for further particulars, 

Redfokd, Sebastian. — This able Con- 
troversialist was born 27 April, 1701 : en> 
tered the Novitiate at Watten in I7l9; and 
was admitted to the Profession of the Four 

* p. 140, Specimen of Amcudmcnts. 



178 



Vows m England, 2 February, 1737. In 
the early part of his Missionary career he 
was attached to the Powis Family, Two 
of his letters dated from Powis Castle in 
1743 have passed through my hands; three 
years after their date I meet him as Supe- 
rior at St, Winefrid's residence ; but shortly 
after this, he was transferred to the College 
of St. Thomas, and subsequently to Lanca- 
shire. For some time before his death he 
was stationed at Wealside, Essex, where he 
departed to our Lord 2 January, 1763. He 
has left a volume entitled " A?i important 
Enquiry^ or the nature of a Church Re- 
formation" fully considered, wherein is 
shewn from Scripture, reason and antiquity, 
that the late pretended Reformation was 
groundless in the attempt, and defective in 
the Execution. 8vo. London, 1751, p.p. 407; 
An improved edition issued from the Lon- 
don press in 1758. Svo. pp. 412. 

Reeve, Joseph, son of Richard Reeve, 
of Island Hill, in the Parish of Stoodley, of 
a respectable family* in Warwickshire, 
born 1 1 May, 1733, In the 14th year of h s 
age he repaired to St. Omer's College, where 
he distinguished himself by his genius and 
industry. On 7 September, 1752, he com* 
raenced his Noviceship at Watten. When 
he had defended the course of Philosophy, 
he was appointed to teach Humanities, 
which he continued to do at St. Omer and 
Bruges for eight years, with honour to him- 
self, and advantage to his pupils. Ordained 
Priest, he defended the whole course of 
Theology at Liege in the Lent of 1 767, with 
universal applause. On 5 August the same 
year he reached Ugbrooke, and there this 
model of Pastors continued until his happy 
death 2 May, 1820. For several years be- 
fore, the Venerable man was afflicted with 
blindness : but no one could approach him 
without being edified with his profound 
sense of Religion, his cheerful resignation to 
the will of Providence, and his exact, fervent 
and constant discharge of his spiritual exer- 
cises. A solemn dirge was performed for 
him at Ugbrooke, on Friday 5 May, and the 
brief Discourse which I delivered on the oc- 
casion is preserved in the " Catholic Specta- 
^or of July, 1825, p. 279-282. His precious 
remains were deposited behind the Chapel, 
and a Tablet contains the following epitaph : 

+ 

H. S. E, 

Josephus Reeve, S. J. 
Hujus Sacrce ^dis annos amplius L 
Sacerdos et Gustos, 

* SeeDugdale's Warwickshire. In the Regis- 
ter of F. Randolph, O S. F. which begins 12 Sep- 
tember, 1657 and is preserved at St. Peter's, Bir- 
mingham, frequent mention is made of the Reeves 
of Rowington, and Edgbaston, They were consid- 
erable benefactors of the New Catholic Church in 
Birmingham, that was consecrated by Bishop Bona- 
venture GiEford. 4 September, 16SS, and which was 
demolished by the Rabble 10 December, that year. 

N.B. Lewis Reeve died most holily in the Con- 
vent of St. Bonaventure, at Douay, A.D. 1666, 



Vixit annos LXXXVn 
Decsssit 11 Mail, A. D, MDCCCXX 

R, I. P. 
F. Reeve will live in the following mo- 
numents of his industry, genius and piety. 

\.'^ History of the Bible.'' Svo. 1780, Exe- 
ter. It has gone through several editions. 

2. Practical Discourses on the Per- 
fections and wonderful Works of God," 
12mo, Exeter, 1788, again at Exeter in 
179,3, with a second Vol. intitled " Prac' 
tical Discourses upon the Divinity and 
wonderful Works of Jesus Christ." 

3. A vol. of Miscellaneous Poetry, 12rao. 
printed at Exeter in 1794. Some of the 
pieces had been printed at Bruges in 1765. 
The admired Poem on "Ugbrooke Park,'' 
was printed originally for Robson, London, 
1776, 4to. pp. 29. The British Critic for 
January, 1796, p. 19, passes the following 
criticism on this Vol. speaking of "Ug- 
brooke Park'' The mind that delights in 
a chaste selection of Images, and a general 
smoothness of versification, occasionally 
rising in strength and harmony, will find in 
this descriptive effusion, a considerable 
share of these qualities." 

In speaking of Mr. Reeve's Version of 
Cato, " Mr. Reeve has certainly executed 
his task in a manner, which in general re- 
flects credit upon his taste and classical ac- 
quirements." 

In the translation of Pope's Messiah^ 
the Critic appears to give the preference to 
Dr. Johnson's version of the same '* in 
point of poetic fire, though not altogether 
in cautious Latinity." In conclusion he 
adds, " We have no difficulty in pro- 
nouncing, that the writer deserves, in a con- 
siderable degree, the public patronage. His 
translations are frequently correct and ele- 
gant, and combine in many passages the 
fidelity of a translator, and the spirit of a 
poet. Yet with this commendation we can- 
not forbear uniting our regret, that so large 
a portion of the volume should have beea 
occupied with Latin Translations from 
the pen of an Author, whose talents appear 
from the specimens here published, to have 
rendered him very capable of succeeding in 
original composition." 

4. short View of the History of the 
Church." 12mo, 3 vols. Exeter, 1802-3. 
Since Reprinted. 

To these we may add "A view of the 
Oath tendered by the Legislature to the 
Roman Catholics of England," 8vo. Lon- 
don, 1790, pp. 47. This well-intentioned 
but feeble performance was severely, but 
fairly handled bv that acute Theologian, 
P.ev. William Pilling, O. S. F. 

I have heard F. Reeve say, that he had 
prepared a considerable work on the History 
oi Jansenism— th&t he had lent it to the 
Rev. Charles Needhara, the Chaplain at 
Tor- Abbey, for revision ; but never reco- 
vered it from his hands. Mr, R. much re- 
gretted its loss. 



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Several minor Poems in MS, are still ex- 
tant: but his brethren must feel indebted to 
him for a valuable " Narrative concerning 
the expulsion rf the English Jesuits from 
their College, at St. Oraer." It is far supe- 
rior to the MS. account drawn up by F. 
Ralph Hoskins. 

PiEEVE, Richard, younger brother of 
Joseph, born 25 February, 1740 : joined 
the Society 7 September, 'l757, and went 
through his studies with great credit. His 
first Mission was at Puddington, near Ches = 
ter. He was subsequently employed in nu- 
merous Missions; and was even sent to 
Peiersburgh, to teach, in the Jesuits' Col- 
lege, the English language to the Russian 
Nobility. This true-hearted, but some- 
what eccentric Father, died in a good old 
age at Stonyhurst, 31 May, 1816. To the 
end of life he retained the name of Haskey, 
with which he and his elder brother had 
entered St. Omer's College. 

Reeve, Thomas, was born on the very 
day his brother Joseph entered the Noviti- 
ate of S. J. Eighteen years later he fol- 
lowed his example, and fully partook of his 
religious fervour and devotion. Always 
characterized by zeal and piety, and by love 
of industry and method, he continued for 
many years bolh at Liege and at Stonyhurst, 
to render important services to the Eleves, as 
well in the capacity of Prefect of the Sodali* 
ty and of the Juniors', as of Spiritual Fa- 
ther, and as an able Teacher of the Belles 
Lettres. We may truly say of him 

Esse pio3, docuit ; quodque docebat, erat. 

For the last fifteen years of his life, this 
zealous little Man was Confessor to theNuns 
of New Hall, Essex. Like an exhausted 
lamp he expired at No. 12, Norton- street, 
London, (where he had gone up on a visit, 
7 September, 1826. For his tombstone in 
St. Pancras' Church yard, I indited the fol- 
Eowing noeraorial. 

To the Pious Memory 
Of the Rev. Thomas Reeve, S. J. 
who 

" Giving himself up continually to prayer 
And the Ministry of the word," 
Was rewarded with a happy death 
On his Birthday, 7th of September, 1826 , 
^t. 74. 

Renoldson, John, admitted 7 September, 
1673 1 he died prematurely in England 1 
April, 1686, 83t,31. 

Renoult, Th»mas Romanus, died at 
Li^ge 28 February, 1776. 

* Revel, John. This Scholastic died 
in England 25 Feb, 1700, aet. 22, Soc. 3. 

* Reynolds, Richaud. This Temporal 
Coadjutor was admitted 2 December, 1719, 
and according to the Provincial's book died 
in Maryland 1 September, O. S. 1736. 
From another account I learn, that he was 
then 50 years old. 

Rhodes, or Roode, Van Peter, died 
at St. Oraer 7 or 8 August, 1702. 

Richardson, Barnaby, is said to have 
died at St. Oraer, 4 June, 1645. 

2 u 



Richardson, John. — I meet With three 
of this name. The first born in Lancashire 
in 1662 : joined the Society at the age of22j, 
wasraade a Spiritual Coadjutor 1 July, 1095, 
was long employed in the Lancashire Mis- 
sion (Q. at Brindle? ) Obiit,27 September, 
O. S. 1728, set. 66. 

The 2nd (whose real name was Shuttle- 
worth, born in Lancashire 18 May, 
1708; was admitted in 1730, and Professed 
18 years later— was serving in the residence 
of St . Mary (including the Counties of Oxon, 
B ucks and Northampton) in 1754 : five 
years later was appointed Superior of his 
brethren there, and died in office 25 June, 
1765. 

The 3rd born 12 May, 1734; admitted in 
1755 ; went to Slatedelf 13 December, 1763 ; 
subsequently to EUinghara: died in Lanca* 
shire 27 March, 1782. 

Richardson, James, born in 1660 : ad- 
mitted in 1679. He was employed in the 
College of St. Francis Xavier, as Chaplain, 
I Suspect to the Vaughan Family, at 
Courifield. When the Revolution burst 
forth, he was obliged to retire to the woods, 
for 10 days he lay concealed, exposed to the 
cold and inclemency of the wintry season. 
To escape the fury of the searchers, he was 
sometimes forced to hide himself in the tops 
of trees. Mrs. Vaughan, afraid to intrust 
the secret of his retreat even to her Catho-^ 
lie servants, courageously proceeded alone, 
in the dead of night, through the intricacies 
of the woods, to supply him with necessariest 
This retreat being deemed insecure^ for the 
seven following weeks he was content to 
abscond in a deserted lime- kiln. '* Tandem 
cum se remitteret nonnihil popular is pro ' 
cella, i latebris emergens ad consueta 
minis teria rediii." 

The interesting document from which the 
above is taken, shews moreover with what 
impunity, the houses and property of Catho- 
lics could then be attacked and pillaged,* 

Q. Did he die 17 January, 1697? 

Richardson, Joseph, of Warwickshire, 
born in 1606, at the age of 29 embraced 
the Institute of St. Ignatius; died in 
Missione OxoniensV* 17 December, 1670. 
A Rev. Father and friend of his, as we learn 
from theAnnual Letters of 1671, has recorded 

* Whatever advantage is said to have accrued to 
the cause of Civil and Relieiousliberty.from the Re- 
volution of 1688, most certainly it brought nothing 
but persecution and despotic oppression to the 
homes, and persons, and property of the Catholic 
Body. The Double Land Tax— the £100. reward 
for the discovery of a Priest— the incapacity of pur- 
chasing land. — the prohibition of keeping school 
and educating their own children, — and the keeping 
of a single horse above £5. value, were a few of the 
bitter fruits which the Dutch Deliverer bestowed on 
his Catholic Subjects. An Inquest of Jurymen held 
at the Sign of the Cock, Shefford, 17 March, 1690, 
having found, that the Jesuits of St. Omer's College 
had a mortgage of £500 on a part of Tuddingion 
Manor, in Bedfordshire, belonging to the Earl of 
Cleveland, (he Commissioners under the Great Seal 
a warded on the next day, with a due sense forsooth 
of British honour and Protestant Justice, that the 
money was forfeited to the Crown ! ! ! 



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what follows; Cum tribus eirciter ab- 
hine hebdomadis Anniversarium P. Rich- 
ardsoni celebraremus, atque Altare nigris 
vestiretur, quamdiu Sacrum duraret, 
e^giem ejus in ipso nigra velo conspexi, 
quodmentem non mediocriler distrahebat 
nec quidqnam de eo dixissem, nisi astari' 
tium quidam, idem d se visum toto missce 
tempore^ jurejurando afflrmasset', idque 
priusquammihiverbum ileeofecisset, Pos- 
tero die jussi hominem ad me accersiri, 
mihique indicare quo id loco apparuisset, 
qui protinus ilium ipsum locum digito 
monstravitf quo ego ipse honum Patrem 
totnm in albis conspexi. Porro qnamvis 
hujusmodi in rebus valde sim ad creden* 
dum difficilis, probi tamen Viri auctus 
testimonio fere adducor credere^ bonum 
Patrem nobis valedicturum advenisse. 
Jtequiescat in Pace.'' 

Richardson, Richard James fsome- 
times incorrectly called John R.) I believe 
he was from Lancashire, and I think was 
admitted in 1690, at Watten, by the name 
of Barrard. The Provincial's Book shows 
that he was professed in 1708, that he was 
declared Provincial of his Brethren 23 No- 
vember, 1731, that he continued in that 
office until 1 October, 17S3,and that he died 
at St. Omer, 6 April, 1738. 

Richardson, Robert, admitted in 1688, 
made his Vows at AVatten, 8 September, 
1690. 

Richaedson, William, of Lancashire, 
Joined the Order in 1660. 

RiDDELL, Peter, I think was son of Sir 
Thomas Riddell, of Gateshead, by his wife 
Elizabeth, (Coniers) died in Maryland. 

RiODELL, William, admitted 20 Janu- 
ary, 1687, Bet. 17; I find him described as 
singulari prorsus laude dignus in the 
An. Lett, of 11 lO; he was then employed 
in the Residence of St. John the Evange- 
list, where he died 29 March, 1711. 

RiSBT, Edward, of Lancashire, adnp it- 
ted 18 June, 1607, at Louvain, set. 26 ; 
died at Rome, 

♦RiGBY, John, born 8 Oct. 1737 ; ad- 
mitted in 1758. This Scholastic died at 
Dinant, 1 January, 1767. 

Q. A Father of this name, born in the 
County of Laucashire, 17 May, 1714 ; ad- 
mitted 1732, Prof. 1750. He was stationed 
at LiverpooU where he died, 26 September, 
1758. After his death this Mission expe- 
rienced a too rapid succession of Incum- 
bents,, S. J, 

RiGBY, Laurence, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted in 1630. 

RiGBY, Roger, born in Lancashire, 
1608; at the age of 21 entered the Society, 
and soon after his promotion to the Priest- 
hood proceeded to the Maryland Mission. 
He died in Virginia in 1646. 

Riley, John, (alias Nicholas Danby,) 
of Yorkshire, entered the Novitiate at the 
age of 30; died in England, 17 January, 
J66I, apt, 67, 



N.B. I meet with an Edward Riley 
(alias Tracey,) of Lancashire, who became 
a Novice in 1641, set. 39. 

*RiLEY, Thomas, of Lancashire. This 
model of Temporal Coadjutors was admit- 
ted 7 September, 1669, and died at Liege, 
College, 16 August, 1708, set. 68. *' Sar~ 
torem agebal et exequebatur diligentis- 
sime : Nunquam otiosus full, nunquam 
non muneri suo intentus — Fuerat illeper 
annos 35 socu^rum Excitaior matutinus, 
et ita quidem accurate statiito tempore 
surrecturis pulsum dabat, ut externus 
quispiam petierit aliquando, num forte 
nobis machina aliqua esset vel instrumenti 
genus/qtiod protinus cerlis pcractis horis, 
Campance pulsandoe inserviretr'' An. Lit. 

* Rimer, John. This English Lay- 
brother was converted in a wonderful manner 
at St. Omeri Alter more than 30 years of 
useful service at that College, chiefly as 
assistant to the Procurator, he died there 
94 April, 1646, most piously, meritorum 
plenus." An. Lit. 

RisDON, John, 1 meet with this Father's 
name in a letter addressed bv the General 
M. Vltelleschi, to F. 0. Shelley, 20 Sep- 
tember, 1625. 

RiSDON, Thomas, alias (Bluett,) of 
Devonshire, I believe, was admitted 7 Sep- 
tember, 1685, set. 93: was professed 18 
years later : for many years he was superior 
of his Brethren in the Residence of St. Sta- 
nislaus : it is certain that he chiefly resided 
at Ugbrooke. In the Will of the second 
Lady Clifford (Anne Preston) dated 13 
September, 1733, he is thus mentioned I 
give and bequeath to Mr. Risdon, who lives 
with me. Twenty pounds," Soon after her 
Ladyship's decease, which took place aS 
Ugbrooke, 5 July, 1734, the Venerable Fa- 
ther retired to Watten, where he crowned 
a well spent life by a most Christian death^ 
12 February, 1744, set. 82. 

RisDON, William, of Devonshire. The 
1st time that I meet with this Father is in 
1615. He was generally stationed at Rome, 
as Procurator of his Brethren. After filling 
that office for 20 years, he died in that City, 
27 October, 1644. 

Rishton, John, of Lancashire : joined 
the Society in 1638 : was Professed at 
Watten, 15 January, 1655. This excellent 
Scholar hag been Professor of Mathematics 
and of Greek and Hebrew, in Portugal, 
He died at Valenciennes, 3 August, 16'56 
at the early age of 42. 

Rivers, Anthony, was Socius to F. 
Henry Garnet. After 1603 I lose sight of 
him. 

Rivers, John, (whose true surname was 
Penketh,) of Lancashire : entered an Alum- 
nus of the English College at Rome, in 1651 ; 
thirteen yeais later joined the Society. In 
the delirium of the Public mind, occasioned 
by Gates's Plot, he was apprehended in his 
native County, and condemned to death. 
At I'he Accession of James, II, he was dis- 



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charged from Lancaster jail, and lived till 
1 August, 1701. 

RivEus, Richardson, ofLincolnshire : at 
the age of 41 was admitted into the Noviti- 
ate. After exertinghiraselfwilh indefatiga- 
ble zeal in the care of souls, for about 20 
years, he retired to St. Oraer, and there ren- 
dered his innocent soul to God, 8 November, 
1679,' set. 72. Rel. 31. Prof. U. " Vircon- 
sumatce perfectcsque virtutis. " 

Rivers, William, died in England, 86 
June, 1642. 

* Roberts, Fabkicius. This Temporal 
Coadjutor was a nativeof Leicestershire, en- 
tered the Society at the age of 43 ; died in 
1661, set. 76. 

Roberts, Francis, Two of this name 
are recorded in the Necrology. One is 
said to have died at Liege, 20 June, 1652 ; 
the other to have died in the same place, 14 
February, 1655. I know that one was 
born in Herefordshire, and entered the So- 
ciety, 8Bt. 28. The Annual Letters throw 
no light on their history. 

Rorerts, Roderic. This Father was 
certainly living either at Welshpool, or at 
Holywell, when the Revolution broke out, 
and was distinguished for his zeal and cha- 
rity. The Populace, worked up to madness 
by the reports of an intended Massacie, by 
the Irish Troops, hurried to his house, plun- 
dered it, gutted the Chapel, and burnt the 
Crucifix and his Library, in the Market- 
place. ^'Interea temporis Pater nullibisat 
tutus : June inde discurrebat, nunc in 
semierutis casis, in summis montium ju- 
gis, nunc infossis et sylvis sub dio, lati- 
tandi causa vitam iransigere coactus. 
Toto biennio magnam cestatis partem de 
node in apertis campis excukavit^ et ta- 
men, quce Providentia Dei est^ nihil inde 
valetudo detrimenti cepit.^' He expe- 
rienced many hair-breadth escapes ; but 
the Angel of God rescued him from the hand 
of his enemies, and from all the expectation 
of the infuriated rabble. 

This venerable Confessor died in England, 
2 June, 1721. 

Roberts, Stephen, (Swindle ) born 6 
August, 1677: admitted in 1693. Professed 
15 August, 1713: served the Mission in 
Gloucestershire for some time. Recalled 
to Ghent, he twice filled the office of Rector, 
and died there, 5 December, 1758, set. 81. 

Roberts, Thomas, admitted in 1696, 
Professed 2 February, 1714. I believe his 
only Mission was Holywell, where he died 
2 May, 1727, set. 54. 

Robinson, Andrew, born in Yorkshire, 
1 August, 1741 : admitted 20 January, 
1763. After serving the Mission nearly 
60 years, (about half ihat period at Wor- 
cester) he closed his lengthened course at 
Worcester, 28 February, 1826. 

Robinson, Christopher, born in Cum- 
berland, at the age of 31, joined the Society, 
and became a Professed Father, 25 February, 
1G28. He died i'^ England, 14 November, 
1C67, aet.82. 



Robinson, John,, alias Gazain : born 
23 December, 1699, admitted 7 September, 
1718. Professed in 1736 : died at Preston, 
17 March, 1742. 

Another Father of this name (but who is 
often called Collingwood and Taylor,) is 
celebrated as a glorious Confessor. He 
was born in Cumberland— entered the 
English College at Rome, in 1616, being 
then 28 years old ; joined the Society as 
late as in his 47th year, and was Professed 
17 April, 1644, From a letter of F. Wil- 
liam Stillington, dated April. 1652, I 
learn that he was arraigned at York, and a 
few days before, viz. 25 March, for being a 
Priest and Jesuit. The only witness that 
appeared against him was (a Mariner's wife 
calling herself Mary Draycot) a woman of 
notoriously bad character,who had fled from 
the hands of justice in Staffordshire. She 
swore she had been to confession to him. 
On 27 March, after the jury had long hesi- 
tated about their verdict, by the persuasion 
of the Judge, he was brought in guilty. The 
joy of the Holy man on receiving Sen- 
tence of Death, excited the astonishment and 
admiration of the whole Court. During 30 
years he had been panting for Martyrdom. 
He spurned the offer of Life and Liberty, 
if he would take the Oaths. " Procul absit 
d. me, inquit, tantum nefas, et vero De- 
mentia) ut vilce caduccB bona immortalis 
animcB dispendio redimam.'' He was not 
executed however ; but after 14 years im- 
prisonment, was banished. He died at 
Watten, 30 September, 1669, jBt. 81. 

Obiithic (fVattenis) P.Johannes Ro- 
binsonus, cetate gravis, veteranus Christi 
miles, carceris in Angliajampridem mo- 
lestias cceterosque Missionis labores, ad 
uUimum constanter perpessus, donee in 
senili languore, ad quietioretn hue static 
onem relegatus, solitamque Societatis 
charitatem expert us, ad cunndata meri- 
torum suorum prcemia evocatus est. Lit. 
Ad. No. 16C9. 

Robinson, Joseph^ His real name was 
Vezotti ; was born in Rome 6 August, 
1720 ; admitted an alumnus of the English 
College there in 1731 ; entered (he Noviti- 
ate of Watten 26 December, 1743, and was 
raised to the rank of a Professed Father 2 
February, 1754. He died of fever, at Bru- 
ges, where he had most worthily filled the 
office of Prefect of the Sodality, 10 Decem- 
ber, 1772. 

Robinson, Thomas, of Derbyshire ; at 
the age of 25 embraced the pious Institute 
of St. Ignatius ; taught Theology and was 
Prefect of Studies ; was professed 12 May, 
1622. After 35 years of Missionary labour, 
died 27 February, 1658, eet. 76. 

N. B. Dodd, vol. II. Church Ilist.p, 142, 
mentions another Father of this name. 

* Robinson, William. 'J his Scholas- 
tic admitted at Watlen 7 September, 167* 
died there 30 Way, 1675, in his 20ih year, 
" Juvcnis pra'ciuvis dotibus ortuUus." 



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ftoBsoN, Christopher, admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1646; joined the Society 19 June, 1669, 
at the advanced age of 49. I have looked 
in vain for further particulars. The date 
of his death in the Necrology is manifestly 
incorrect. 

Rochester, Thomas, {Reffensis ) of 
Cambridgeshire, admitted at the age of 24. 
In the Provincial report of 1655 he is then 
stated to have been a Missionary for 28 
years. The Annual Letters of 1656 show 
that he was then a prisoner. Whether he 
actually died a prisoner 29 September, 
1657, 1 have not been able to discover; but 
this was probably the case. 

Rodney, Edward, was a student in the 
English College at Rome, in 1613, died at 
Liege 22 July, 1636. The Annual Letters 
of that year omit to specify the names of 
four who died at Liege College; but the 
context shews that F. Rodney must either 
have been the Minister of the house, or the 
Prefect of Spirit, deservedly esteemed in 
that city, and a man of spotless character. 
*' Vir zeli plenus suique vincendi studiosus. 

RoELS, Charles. The real name of this 
Belgian Father was Rousse\ he was born 
17 April, 1690; admitted 1 February, 1710, 
Prof. 2 Feb. 1727; appointed Rector of 
Liege College in 1743, when the Students 
of Theology were dispersed into other pro- 
vinces, through the stoppage of the income 
from Bavaria, by the dispossession of 
Charles VII of his Dominions. For 16 
years F. Roels governed the Community, 
and acted for a considerable time as Direc- 
tor to the English Nuns, at Liege. He 
died 22 March, 1764. 

RoELS, Lewis. This Belgian Father, 
born 22 November, 1732 ; admitted 1753. 
After many years service in the Maryland 
Mission he died in that country 24 Februa- 
ry, 1794. 

Roels, Nobbert Joseph, admitted 31 
Dec. 1668, died at Liege 8 April, 1682, at. 
40. 

RoFFE, Edward, of Sussex ; joined the 
Society at the age of 27, Prof. 12 J uly, 
1628. This venerable Missionary, after 
exercising his apostolic functions in England 
for 53 years, died 6 February, 1666, at. 78. 

Rogers. Edward ; admitted 12 December 
1692, aet. 30, nine years later I find him at 
Rome. 

Rogers, Gerard, of Westphalia ; he 
died of the Plague, at Liege, most deeply re- 
gretted, but ripe for heaven, 9 September, 
1637, set. 37. Soc. 17; See p. 409, of F. 
More's Hist. 

Rogers, Francis, of Norfolk. He died 
in England, 15 November, 1660, set. 62. 
Rel. 37. Prof. 20. 

* Rogers, Henry. All that I can learn 
of him is, that he died at St. Omer, 21 De- 
cember, 1695. 

Rogers, John. There were two of this 
name, one died in England, 15 October, 
1652. 



The other (who passed by the name of 
BanJieldJ was born in Wilts. In the Pro- 
vincial Returns of 1655 he is stated to be 
then at Walten, that he was 72 years old, 
of which period he had spent 44 in the Soc. 
and 34 in the Mission, and that the date of 
his Profession was 17 September, 1662 — 
he finished his meritorious course at St. 
Omer, 7 or S August, 1657, 

Rogers, Philip ; Born 2 November, 
1691 ; admitted in 1717, Prof. 1735. This 
venerable Missionary died in England, 3 
February, 1761. 

Rogerson, George, born at Garstang, 
10 May, 1800 ; admitted amongst the No- 
vices at the age of 18 ; ordained 13 Novem- 
ber, 1830. An ill state of health prevented 
tbii amiable young Priest from exerting 
his zeal and talents in the manner that his 
heart desired at Preston After residing at 
Worcester for some time, he sunk under his 
complaints in that city, 27 January, 1840. 

In the Preston Paper appeared the fol- 
lowing Article shortly after : — 

St; WrLFRio's Chapel. — On Monday 
last, solemn mass was celebrated by the 
Rev. A. Barrow, for the repose of the soul 
of the Rev. George Rogerson. The Rev. 
Jos. Clarke officiated as Deacon, the Rev. 
William Knight as Sub-Deacon, and the 
Rsv. Geo. Connell, as Master of Ceremo- 
nies. During four years the Rev. G. Ro- 
gerson was Pastor of St. Wilfrid's. In'the 
autumn of 1835, the state of his health, 
which his exertions in the sacred ministry 
had impaired^ obliged his Superiors to re- 
move him, in the vain hope that milder air 
and repose might recruit his strength, 
and enable him to return to his flock. 
After a lingering illness borne with edifying 
patience and resignation, he fell a victim to 
his zeal at Worcester, January 27, in the 
40th year of his age. The chapel was filled 
by persons who appeared anxious to give a 
last proof of grateful attachment to a devo- 
ted Pastor, whose memory will long be 
held in benediction by the Catholics of 
Preston. 

* RooKESBY, Ralph. This Temporal 
Coadjutor died at Watten, 8 February, 1690, 
" cum magnd sanctitatis opinione." He 
was of a distinguished Family. The An- 
nual Letters inform us that he had served 
in the Royal Army, during the grand Re- 
bellion, that afterwards he went over Jo 
Watten and joined the Society. They speak 
in glowing terms of his meekness, charitable 
and heroic attention to the sick and affected, 
and his religious fervour and perfect obedi- 
ence. 

RooKwooD, Henry, 3rd son of Ambrose 
Rookvv'ood, Esq. by his wife Elizabeth 
(Caldwell,) was born on Tuesday, 8 No- 
vember, 1659. Entered the Novitiate 7 
September, 1681, Prof. 20 June, 1699 ; 
served Coldham Hall ; but died in Norfolk, 
20 April, 1730, set. 71, and was buried at 
Stanningfield Church. 



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Roper, Thomas, son I Mieve of Chris, 
topher, 4th Lord Tenyham. 

During his rstudies at St. Omer, he dis- 
tinguished himself by his talents, his piety 
and modesty. After much Jiesitation and 
reluctance his noble father consented to his 
embracing the Religious state; andnosooner 
was the consent obtained, than the holy 
youth consecrated himself to God in the 
Society of Jesus, 14 August, 1673. The 
remainder of his life was of a piece with its 
beginning. After a month's illness this Fa- 
ther died in the most christian sentiments 
at Ghent, 12 May, 1716, set. 61, Rel. 43. 
The Annual letters say he had been ad- 
mitted to the Prof, of the Four Vows. 

R.OSE, Christopher, born 1 September, 
1741 : entered the Society in 1763. I be- 
lieve that his long Missionary career was 
spent almost entirely at Hardwick, near 
Hartlepool. Retiring to Durham, he died 
in that city, 8 July, 1826, aet.85, 

F.John Scott, then Missionary at Dur- 
ham, received orders in May, 1824, to lodge 
this superannuated Father in the Chapel 
House of that city. Whilst removing the 
back Parlour Floor for the reception of 
this Ven. Man from Hardwick, an arched 
vault was discovered beneath, and on re- 
moving some loose bricks, 2 or 3 coffins were 
observed. Perhaps they contained the re- 
mains of Missionaries fSee p. 63 Curry 
John)ov of some Priests martyred at Dur- 
ham. The bricks were replaced forthwith, 
and the new floor laid without further inves- 
tigation. 

RoTHWELL, Joas, (alias Rigmeadon,) 
born according to the Provincial's private 
book, 24 August, 1709 ; entered the Society 
in 1732: died at Kilvington, in the County 
of York, 29 September, 1782. 

Rowland, John. He was certainly 
Missionary in the North of England, in 
1701- 4, There he died 8 March, 1709. 

Royal, John. This American was born 
22September, 1729; admitted 1747; Pro- 
fessed at Canford in Dorsetshire, 1765; 
died near Bosworth, 17 April, 1770. 

Ruga, Bartholomew. This Italian Fa- 
ther succeeded F. Galli, as Theologian Con- 
fessor to the exiled consort of James II. at 
St. Gerraaine, He died at Paris, 10 April, 
1715. In a letter of F. Francis Sanders, 1 
August, 1701, to the General Thyrsus Gon- 
zales, he is stiled '* Vir prudens et doetus 
et oplimus Religiosus qui apud omnes et 
imprimis Reginam, in magnd est cestima- 
tione,^' 

•RtJssELL, John ; admitted 1 October, 
1689; died at St. Oraers, 15 February, 
1621, set. 53: 

Russell, Ralph. This English Scho- 
lastic died at Liege, 23 October, 1634, lea- 
ving behind an admirable example of piety 
and of the good use of time. 

♦Russell, Simon, of Staffordshire.— This 
Angelical youth died of consumption at 

2 X 



Liege 21 September 1627, See p. 459 
Moie's Hist. 

Russell, Thomas, admitted in 1676, set. 
21 ; was serving in the residence of St, 
George in 1701-4. 

* Russell, William, admitted at Rome^ 
in the year 1563, see p 30 of H. More's 
Hist. 

Rutteu, John Baptist, or Ruyter. 
This Flandro-Belgic Father, after his 
Profession in the Order, was aggregated to 
the English Province about the year 1763. 
For many years he devoted his zeal and ta- 
lents to the cultivation of the Vineyard in 
Pensylvania, where he died 3 February^ 
1786. 

* Rymer, Jchn, see Rimer, 
Ryther, Thomas, of a wealthy Family, 

admitted 1683 : made a spiritual Coadjutor 
2 February, 1694 : after a long course of 
Missionary labours in the College of St. 
Thomas of Canterbury, he retired to St. 
Omer, where he died, 21 December, 1733, 
set. 70. 

Sabran, Lewis, was born in London in 
1652. His father, the Marquis de Sabran, 
had been Envoy from France to the British 
Court, most certainly in September, 1644 ; 
his mother is said to have been a Plow- 
den. On the 17th of September, 1670, 
Lewis, then 18 year of age, entered the No- 
vitiate of the Society at Watteu. At the 
accession of James the II to the Crown of 
England, F. Sabran was appointed one of 
his Majesty's Chaplains : and I find, by his 
own relation, that he was in the habit of 
preaching on Wednesdays iu the Royal 
Chapel, and on Sundays in a chapel at Lon- 
don, which was served by the Jesuits. 
One of his sermons delivered (the 2nd Sun- 
day of Advent, 1687, at the solemnization 
of the feast of St, Francis Xavier) in the 
Chapel of the Spanish Ambassador, was 
published in 4to. London, 1687, pp. 39. On 
2 February, 1688, F. Sabran was admitted 
to the Professionof the Four Solemn Vows. 

At the birth of James, the King's son, 
10 June, 1688, F. Sabran was honoured 
with the office of Chaplain to this netv 
PrincQ of Wales.* It is believed that he 

* Whilst his Mother had been pregnant the 
following prayers were injoined to be recited by the 
Rt, Rev. Dr. Leybourn, Senior Vicar Apostolic in 
England." 

ORATIONES. 
Addenda in Missa a Sacerdotibus in Regno Angliae 
celebrantibus,post ultimam Oraiionem Diet, 4" 
unica conclusioae, pro Serenissima Regind nos- 
tra inrcegnante, F<elici ejus pariu. 
De Mandate lUustrissimi.ac Reverendissimi Domini 
Joannis Episcopl Adramitensis, V. A. 

Oratio. 

Dcus qui ad multiplicandos adoptionis Alios frecun- 
ditatis Benedictioncm conuubio largiri voluisti ; 
exaudi preces nostras pro Famula tua Uegina aos- 
U& Maria, & concede, utquod in ea Spiritu vitaa 
anlmasti, Spiiitu gratiee regenerare digneris. 
Seer eta. 

Suscipe quoesumus, Domine tuorum vota fidelium 
pro Famula tua Regina nostra Maria prjegnnnte, & 
praesta, ut quod in partu veterls peccatl supplicium 
est, fiat ei propriaa iniquitatis reniedium. 



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baptized the royal infant the day after its 
birth ; but the Ceremonial part was not per» 
formed at St. James' Chapel until 25 Oct. 
When the Revolution burst forth, in Novem- 
ber that year, he had orders to proceed to 
Portsmouth with the royal Infant : but was 
afterwards directed to return to the metropo- 
lis. We report the sequel in his own words : 
*' Portsmutho cum Princeps inde, Londinum 
Teportaretur^ missus sum ne Serenissimis 
Regi et jRegirtie persuaderem ut Princeps 
eAdam qu& perveniret node trans mare in 
Gallium veheretur. Postquam iotum ilium 
diem in eo negotio cum paucis Concilii con- 
sciis transegissem, sub undecimi metis man- 
datum a Regina accept, ne principem in 
fug& comitarer ; fuiurum enim, ut cum 
plerisque essem notus, si in nave cernerer^ 
suspicionem moverem Principem mecum 
vehi, Jussus igitur sum postridie sequi ; 
cumque Jam navim essem conscensurus, cap- 
tus sum ; sed post duas haras examinatus 
et dimissus. Inde triduum latui ; donee 
cum Legato Polonice, ut ejus Secretarius, 
habitu ejus Gentis indutus, equos conduxi 
circa horam undecimam metis ; ante du- 
odecimam Det/ordi a tumultuante plebe 
{quorum unus sclopum in me direxerat sed 
frustrato tamen ictUy quodpulvis ignem non 
concepisset) cum Legato comprehensus, et 4 
horas in privat& domopro Career e detentus 
sum ; donee Regid cohorte ad Re gem Fever- 
shamce deientum isihac transeunte, e fenestra 
vnum e ducibus mi hi notum allocutus, ejus 
heneficio ac ope, dispersd plebe^ inde liber 
evasi, Rochestriam cum pei've?iissem, ab 
uno e Rcgni proceribus, cui notus era?n, 
sum proditus y Jusserat is illico Prcetorem 
accersiri, [qui me i^acerdotem et Jesuitam 
comprehenderet. Cum igitur equum pe- 
terem, quo ceptum iter prosequerer, inopi- 
natum responsum tuli^ nempe intra mediam 
horam me Ugneo equo in foro equitaiurum^ 
furcis videlicet suspendendum. In cubicu- 
lum me recepi, ut quid facto opus esset, co- 
gitarem ; cum subito, speciali Dei provi- 
deniid accurrit Promus, nescire se, inquiens^ 
quis essem, sed vulgo did me Jesuitam 
esse ; plebem furibundam domum circum- 
dare, in'upturam, cereberumque elisuram, 
prinsquam Prcetor advenire posset ; se qui- 
dem, si ita videretur, ostium obseraturum. 
Jussi facer e i fecit ille et in cellam se tibditit. 
Illico armata plebs in domum irrumpit, et 
omni vi conatur ostium perfringere, ipsa 
herd. domUs insirumenia administrante 
atque hortante, ut ocius me conficerent^ ne 
pluribus irrumpentibus domus diriperetur. 
Sonuerat jam nona hora matutina ; qud 
audita^ e promtissimis unus ad ostium excla- 
Tnat. hac e go manu Jesuitam isium trucidabo 
qiua?nvis certo scircm ante quartam horee 
partem id me confugem, liberosque omnes tn- 

Post-Communio. 
Deus qui ad Salutein hamani generis homo nasci 
illaesa Matris integritate voluisti, concede propitius 
ut Famula tua Regina nostra Maria partu fajlici 
prolem edat tibi fideliter Servituram, 



fami patibuli supplicio luituros. His didis 
ingenti forcipe summa vi adactd ostium de- 
jecit, unaque cum Qceteris irruit. Ego, cum 
me Deo eommendassem, surrexi et obviam 
fadus, eosque bland^ affatus ita tamen ap- 
positis verbis suam illis inhnmanitatem erga 
hominem ignotum penitvs, nec antea lisum ^ 
ob oculos posui, ut ancipifes aliquantulum 
hcererent, usque dtim unus quispiam vehem- 
enti idu in pectus impado me prosterneret: 
turn vero omnes una in me ruere ; quce apud 
me habebam diripere, vestihus etiam usque 
ad indusium spoliare. Hoc rerum articulo, 
Prcetor cum armata cohorte accurrit, et 
blandis verbis affatus plebem et promittens, 
one intra duas horas suspendendum, si 
Jesuitaesse deprehenderer^cegre tandem me 
ex corum manibuscripuit, atque incarcerem 
mandavit. Biduo post. Rex isihac LondiU' 
um transiens me custodid eximi et se sequi 
jussit. Tandem sedato aliquantu lum twnut- 
tu, mutato nomine, et facuUate abeundi irnp^ 
etratd, Dunkerkam ptrveni.'"' 

In a Journal formerly kept at Watten, I 
read, A. D. 1693, June 20.— Fathers of the 
congregation to the number of Twenty-two 
came. June 21st. — The congregation be- 
gan at eight o'clock. On the 23rd F, Sa- 
bran was chosen Procurator. 

Six years after this election, he received 
the appointment of President of the Epis- 
copal Seminary at Liege, by its Prince 
Bishop, Joseph Clement, the Kector of Co- 
logne. This appointment gave the Father 
incredible vexation for some time ; but the 
uncompromising decision of his illustrious 
Patron, aided by his own prudence, meek-* 
ness and charity, eventually triumphed over 
all opposition. He continued President, I 
believe, until the year 1709, when he was 
declared Provincial of his English Brethren, 
On going out of office in 1712, he was made 
Rector of St. Omer's College; at the end of 
this triennial government, he was ordered 
to Rome, where he was appointed Prefect 
of Spirit to the Knglish College. Here 
the venerable man closed a long life devo- 
ted to the service of God and the welfare 
of his brethren, 22 January, 1732, set. 80, 
He has "spoken with his pen" in the 
following: — 

1. '■''An Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Pre- 
servative against P apery r' 4to. London, 
1688. pp. 8— one sheet. 

2. Dr. Sherlock's Preservative consU 
dered in two Letters, with a Third Letter 
to Mr. Ncedham.^' 4to. London, 1688. 
pp. 88. 

3. " A Letter to a Peer of the Church 
of England, clearing a point touched in 
a Sermon, which he had preached at 
Chester before the King, August 28, 
1687." 4to. 

4. Reply to Edward Gee, who had 
written against that Letter." 

5. " The Challenge made out against 
an Historical Discourse concerning lu' 
vocation of Saints." Q. Dr. Claggett'sl) 



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I suspect the Tract, '*Dr, Sherlock sifted 
from his ' Bran and Chaff,' in a dialogue 
between the Master of the Temple and a 
student there," 4to. London, '687, pp. 28, 
was written by this Reverend Father, 

Sachmorter, Philip, born at Dunkirk 
8 November, 1720; admitted at Watlen in 
1738; made a Spiritual Coadjutor in 1735: 
was living in 1765. 1 think that he died 
before the suppression of the Order. 

Sadler, Albert, born in Berkshire : 
joined the Society at (he age of 25 : was 
admitted to the Profession of the Four Vows 
5 July, 1632 : exchanged this life, in En- 
gland, for a better, 3 October, 1672, set. 81. 

* Sadler, Benjamin, died a Scholastic 
at liiege, 14 August, 1690, set. 23, Soc 27. 

Sadler, Edward, born 5 February, 
1663 : admitted in 1690; for many years 
served the Essex Mission : died at Wealside 
in that County 8 May, 1751. 

Sadler, John : admitted at Watten in 
1G83. This Rev. F. entered an early tomb 
in England, 22 February, 1699, set. 35. 

Sadler, William, born in Essex, A.D'. 
1609: embraced the pious Institute of St. 
Ignatius at the age of 21 ; was professed 18 
December, 164)5 : died in England 24 
April, 1674. 

Sale, John, was born at Hopcar, in 
Leigh, County of Lancaster, where his fa- 
mily had a tolerably good estate; joined 
the Society at the age of 19; was Professed 
in 1758 : for some years served the mission 
of Bedford, near Leigh; but ended his 
course at Furness 23 October, 1791, set. 69. 

Salisbury, Edmund, (alias Thomas 
Plowden^) died at London 13 February, 
1664, but I can learn no further particulars. 

Salisbury, John, of Wales. In 1605, 
whilst actu£lly employed in the Mission, he 
joined the Society, and was raised to the 
rank of a Professed Father at London in 
1618. He died Rector of the College of St. 
Francis Xavier in 1625, set. 50. His trans- 
lation into Welsh of Bellarmine's Catechism 
was printed at St. Omer. 8vo. A.D. 1618, 
iacito nomine. According to F. Nathaniel 
Southwell, F. Salisbury composed some 
other pious works alios pios libros," p. 
600. Liblioth. Script. S. J. 

Salisbury, Ihomas. — I collect from the 
Provincial Report of 1655, that he was 
then 61 years of age, of which he had spent 
38in the Society, and 32 in the Mission, 
and that he >*as Professed 15 October, 
1630. Was he not the translator of F. 
Bartoli's " Huomo di Litteri difcso et 
cmendato." " The learned man defended 
and Reformed" 8vo. London, 1660 : also 
of '* Matheiratical Collections from Galilaeil 
See p. 15, Vol. 2. Wood's Aihense. 1st. Ed. 

Saltmash, Edward, of a good family 
in Yorkshire : admitted 7 September, 1678; 
Professed in 1696. I meet with him as 
Missionary in the North of England and in 
Suffolk. He was also Rector of Ghent 
froai 1722 to 27 August, 1725. Retiring 



to Watten, the Venerable Father went, we 
hope, to receive the never-fading Crown, 
21 May, 1737, set. 8L 

Salvin, Ralph, was entered an alumnus 
of the English College at Rome in 1620 : in 
the sequel joined the Society ; after which 
time 1 lose sight of liim. 

Salvin, Robert, of Yorkshire, ( but 
whose real name was Constable.) His fa- 
mily was highly respectable. Admitted at 
Rome 17 September, 1619, was Professed 
in the Order 22 September, 1637. He 
served the English Mission nearly fourteen 
years, and for the very long period of 30 
years, was Professor of Scripture and Con- 
troversy at Liege. There he died of the 
Stone, 29 April, 1678, set. 83. He was an 
example of early rising to his Brethren, of 
great self-denial and of profound humility. 

Sankey, Francis, brother 1 believe of 
Laurence Sankey, born in Lancashire in 
1604 ; joined the Society at the age of 24, 
Professed 29 September, 1641 ; died in 
England in 1663. 

Sankey, Laurence, (incoireclly called 
Sanchez in the Obituary) was born in Lan- 
sashire in 1606 : was admitted in the So- 
ciety at the age of 30, after serving the 
English Mission for eleven years was 
ordered to Maryland, viz. in 1649, and 
died in Virginia 13 Febiuary, 1657, set. 51. 

Sankey, William, also of Lancashire ; 
died at Watten 6 January, 1680, O. S. set. 
72, Rel. 52, Prof. 37. He had lived 26 
years in Spain. 

Sandeks, Erasmus, was entered an 
alumnu^ of the English College at Rome in 
1594 ; but before his death in the month of 
September, 1600, was admitted into the So- 
ciety of Jesus. 

Sanders, Francis, was received a con- 
victor of the English College at Rome in 
1667. On January 4, 1674, he enrolled 
himself amongst the children of St. Igna- 
tius. For a time he was Confessor to K. 
James II. at St. Germaine, and most assidu- 
ously attended his Majesty during his last 
illness, from 22 August, to 5 September, 
1701; The good Father survived his royal 
master several years, dying at St. Ger- 
maine, 19 February, 1710, set. 62. In the 
Catalogue of Books for sale by Wm. Lewis, 
of Russel Street, Convent Garden, as pre- 
fixed to " Darell's Moral Reflections on the 
Epistles and Gospels" London, I7ll, I 
observe, " An Abridgement of the Life of 
King James II. extracted from an Engilsh 
M. S. of the Rev. Father Francis Sanders, 
S. J. Confessor to his Majesty." Price 2s.* 
Q. Was he not the Translator of Roderi- 
guez's Christian Perfection, in 3 vols, 4to.?t 

♦ This life of James II, was translated into Italian 
and published in I2mo at Milan in 1706. 

t The Treatise on the Perfection of our Ordinary 
Actions, & on the purity of intention with which we 
ought to Porfomi them, (in 24mo, pp. 184) had been 
printed at Rouen in IG30. The treatise on Humility 
followed the year after — Q. Who was the Translator ? 



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Sanders, Thomas, born I October, 
1724: at the age of 20 joined the Society. 
Avas Professed in 1762. This respected 
Missioner succeeded F. Clough at Wor* 
caster, in 1777, and died there 12 No- 
vember, 1790, of Asthma. T. Raymeiit, 
Esq. informed me that "he was singularly 
plain in dress, and considered by those unac- 
quainted with him," as rather blunt in con- 
versation: there was however a fund of 
obvious piety, and affectionate zeal, that 
endeared him to all." 

N.B. In p. 462, Vol. II. Catalogue of 
Bodlean Library, Nicholas San lers, D.D. 
is incorrectly stiled a member S J. 

Sanders, William,— All that I can 
glean of him is, that he died in England 17 
April, 1676. 

Saunderson, John. — Educated at Liege: 
died at Balh 6 October, 1B13. 

♦Saunderson, Nicholas. — I meet with 
two of this name. The 1st a Temporal Co- 
adjutor who died at St. Oraer, 22 Septem- 
ber, 1761, set. 69. Re/. 36. 

The 2nd born 22 January, 1731: admit- 
ted in 1750: Professed in 1768. I am in- 
formed that he was ordained Priest at 
Liege 11 July, 1756— and that he died at 
Alnwick late in 1790. 

N.B. This F. Nicholas Saunderson 
was often called Thompson. In a letter of 
F. John Thorpe to the Rev. Charles Plow- 
den, dated from Rome 8 January, 1791, I 
read what follows ; " fhe death of F. 
Nicholas Thompson, at Alnwick, is a Joss ; 
I know his piety and charity. He was the 
oldest acquaintance I had : we were toge- 
ther under Mro Occleshaigh in Lancashire, 
who had been a student in the Jesuits' 
College at Wigan."* 

Saunderson, Robep.t, born in Lanca- 
shire in 1715: admitted in 1738 ; Professed 
in 1756 1 after serving a Mission (in the 
College of St. Thomas,) and in Yorkshire 
for several.years, he died 2 December, 1781. 

Saunderson, Thomas, died in England 
21 December, 1642. Q. If not of the Fa- 
mily of Heley, in the County of Northum- 
berland? 

Saundford, John. I regret beyond 
measure not to be able to throw light on the 
history of this talented and well-informed 
Father, He was certainly a Priest and 

* The Society during the Reign of James the II, 
had ten schools or Colleges in England, viz., two in 
London, one at Bury St. Edmunds, one at Wolver- 
hampton, one at Lincoln, one at Pontefract, one at 
Durham, one at Newcastle, one at Welshpool, and 
one at Wigan : this last mentioned, had moie than 
one hundred scholars. The chapel attached to the 
school or college was small, but used to be densely 
crowded. The Mayor of the Town with his officers 
frequently attended its service. The materials for 
erecting a new church were prepared : the site for 
building the Pensioners Quarters in the College, 
was marked out and commenced, when the Revolu- 
tion burst forth: and a maddened populace tore up 
the foundations and scattered them to the winds. 
The Catholics must indeed have been numerous in 
Wigan, since Bishop Leyburn confirmed there 14 
and 15 September, 16S7,one Thousand three hundred 
and thirty-one persons. 



Prefect in the English College at Rome; 21 
November, 1638. He was moreover the 
Author of a M. S. consisting of more than 
1200 pages, giving a detailed account of in* 
teresting events, relative to English Catho- 
lies in general, and in particular to the 
Colleges and Missionaries S. J. from the 
accession of Q. Elizabeth, until the year 
1(540. Bishop Challoner, whilst compiling 
his faithful Memoirs of Missionary 
Priests" obtained the loan of it from the 
Library of St. Omer's College, and returned 
it with a note that " in his judgment it was 
the most valuable English M. S. on Catho- 
lic affdirs here, that he had met witfi.*" 
This precious M. S. was plundered by the 
Myrmidons of the Austrian Government, 
at the disgraceful seizure of the College at 
Bruges. To the credit of the Reverend 
Charles Plowden (who had the custody of 
it) no exertions were spared on his part to 
recover this treasure ; but all in vain. We 
trust this irreparable loss will be a perpe- 
tual warning to Superiors, to cause Dupli- 
cates at least of every important M. S. to 
be made. 

F. Sandford (to whose valuable Labors 
this English Province and the Society at 
largo, must ever feel indebted ) died in En- 
gland 2 August, 1667. 

Savill Thomas, see Preston, Thomas. 

Savill, William, of Lincolnshire ; ad- 
mitted at the age of 22. Professed 12 May, 
1627. This zealous Missionary was com- 
pelled by weakness of sight to retire from 
active service. He died at Liege, 6 October 
1654, ffit. 70. 

ScARisBRicK, Francis. There were two 
Fathers of this name. The 1st 1 believe 
was admitted by thename of Nevill, in 1664. 
He died in England, 20 September, 1713. 

The 2nd born at Scarisbrick Hall, in Lan- 
cashire's April, 1703, was admitted in 1722, 
and 18 years later, was promoted to the 
rank of a Professed Father. In May, 1759, 
he was appointed Rector of St, Omer's Col- 
lege, in difficult and most critical times, and 
had to undergo the painful ordeal of witnes- 
sing the seizure of that College, and the 
expulsion of his Brethren in 1762. He was 
a good Religious man, and a polite Gentle- 
man ; but a love of truth compels us to say 
that he was ill qualified to be the Pilot that 

* I must leave tobetler Critics than mysel', to 
aceouni for Father Henry Sheldon's ignorance of 
this supposed invaluable M. S. The General of the 
Society, F. Charle? de la Noyelle, 2 January, 1700, 
sent a circular to the Provincials of the Order, to 
furnish a Catalogue of evidences to serve for ma- 
terials of a History of the Body. The English Pro- 
vincial F. Humberston, diiected F. Henry Sheldon 
to satisfy the General on this subject, and no man 
seems to have entered upon it with more zeal and 
spirit, as his Answer abundantly demonstrates. 
With every means of information, how does it happen 
thatheeould be ignorant of such a M. S.? If not 
ignorant, how can we reconcile his silence about it ; 
with his duty ? Perhaps, it had been mislaid or car- 
ried off during the persecution at the time ofOates' 
Plot, and not replaced or restored until after Mr. 
Sheldon's answer 



187 



wealhars the storm. Soon after the Emi- 
gration to Bruges, he was released from the 
burthen of Superiority of the New Establish- 
ment there, and shortly after, was declared 
Rector of his Brethren at Liege. There he 
held the reins of government until thespring 
of 1768. During the presidency of his im- 
mediate vSuccessor F.John Howard, he was 
involved in the whirlwind that swept away 
the Society itself. The venerable man sur- 
vived this calamity several years, dying at 
Liege, 16 July, 1789, £Bt. 86. 

F. John Thorpe, in a letter dated Rome, 
i9 September, that year, to Hsnry, 8th Lord 
Arundel), says " Good F, Scarisbrick, has 
left a void in innocent and entertaining con- 
versation that is not readily to be filled. 
He was the last of 12 brothers and sisters, 
not one of whom died under 40 years of age ; 
all were remarkable for their agreeable vein 
of humour." 

ScaaisBRicK, Henrv. There were two 
of this name. The 1st was admitted in 
JG62, and died in England, 3 December, 
1701. 

* The other a promising Scholastic, born 
5 August, 1711, was admitted when 18 years 
old: died at Lyons, 13 March, 1744. 

ScARisBfiicKE, Joseph, admitted in 1692, 
ael. 19: made Spiritual Coadjutor in 1704; 
was living at Dutton Hall, Lancashire, in 
1726. 

* ScHiLDE/is, Abraham, admitted 7 De- 
cember, 1705, as a Temporal Coadjutor ; 
died at St, Omer 29 October, 1733, set. 53, 

ScHONDONCHus, GiLES. This Master- 
spirit and Model of Instructors of youth, 
was born at Bruges, 31 August, 1556. At 
the age of 20, he devoted himself to God in 
the Society of Jesus, and proved one of its 
brightest Ornaments. After displaying in 
r>everal Colleges, his happy talent of teach- 
ing and governing — after edifying and en- 
lightening the faithful with his Pulpit Elo- 
quence, he was appointed Rector of the 
newly erected English College at St. Omer. 
Under his auspices, the Establishment soon 
numbered above 100 Pupils, and on the solid 
foundation created by his commanding ta- 
lents, successful method, and most tender 
piety, rested the enduring character which 
the College maintained of practical Religion, 
and of classical superiority, until the expul- 
sion of the Members, in the Autumn of 1762. 
Affer filling the office of Rector 17 years, 
this saintly and most learned Father, died in 
the arms of his Brethren, 29 January, 1617, 
aet.61. 

Scott, Christopher, died at Liege, 9 
September, 1636. 

Scott, Edward, born at Riegate, Coun- 
ty of Surry, 8 April, 1776; at the age of 
ten was sent to the Academy at Liege ; but 
left after a few years, and going into the 
world , embraced the state of matrimony. 
On the death of his wife and only child (a 
daughter,) he decided or. following the Re- 
ligious life. In 1811 he entered the So- 

2 y 



ciety of Jesus, at Stonyhurst : in Septem- 
ber 1816, he was promoted to Priest's Or- 
ders by the venerable Dr. Milner, and for 
some months assisted the faithful round 
Dunkenhalgh. When the Reverend Jo- 
seph Tristram was recalled from London 
to Stonyhurst, in 1817, F; Scott was 
judged the fittest person to succeeed him in 
the ofEce of Procurator of the Province. 
His services in this capacity — his obliging 
disposition— his talents for the Pulpit — his 
assiduity in the Confessional, rendered him 
a general favourite. Leaving London for 
Stonyhurst to make the Spiritual Retreat, 
preparatory to his taking the solemn Vows 
of the Society, he was suddenly struck 
with paralysis, 30 January, 1833, and de- 
prived of the use of his left side. On the 
Lady-day following, this good man was so 
far recovered, as to be able to take the de- 
gree of a Professed Father ; but still in- 
capable of pursuing any active employment. 
On 15 August that year, he was settled at 
Norwich; but 7 February, 11835, returned 
to his Brethren at Stonyhurst, where, for 
the remainder of his days, he was like a 
blank in Society, His unfortunate situa- 
tion called forth every care and attention, 
which cordial charity could suggest to his 
Brethren. At length without any appa- 
rent agony, his pious soul was released from 
the prison of his body, on Friday night, 
20 May, 183G. 

ScRiNGER, Alexander, lived chiefly in 
the Roman Province; but after two years 
employed in the English Mission, retired 
abroad during the effervescence of Gates' 
plot, and died at Douay, 23 September, 
1679. Fir bonus et humilis, jjaratus ad 
omnia charitatis oijicia" Ann. Lit, 

Scrivener, Hugh. All that jF. ff. 
More could collect of him was, that he was 
a native of Herefordshire and was teaching 
Syntax, at Brinn, in Moravia, A. D, 1590, 
see p. 23, Hist. Prov. AngL 

Scroop, William. His real name was 
Hart. He was Grandoephew of F. fVil- 
Ham Hart, the Martyr, and showed him- 
self worthy of his illustrious descent. When 
the plague broke out at Ipres, he fell a vic- 
tim to his charity, in attending the infected, 
on 15 October, 1667, aet. 27, See FlorttS" 
Anglo- Uavaricus, p. 64-5. 

N.B. I observed in the Diary of the Mi- 
nister of the English College, at Rome, that 
an entry was made of a Father Scroop ha- 
ving left Rome on 18 December, 1628, for 
Flanders. 

Scudamore, John. His great nephew, 
Mr. John Jones, of Tolcarne, in Mawgan's 
Parish, Cornwall, informed me, that F. 
Scudamore was of the ancient and respecta- 
ble family of the Scudamores, of Home La- 
cy, in the County of Hereford, and that his 
Father re^^^ided at Pembridge CasUe. At 
the age of 18, the youth was admitted into 
the Novitiate, at Watten, and 18 years later 
was enrolled amongst the Professed Fathers. 



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On the death of F. Thomas Hildeyard, in 
1746, F. Scudamore was appointed Rector 
of his Brethren, in the College of St. Fran- 
cis Xavier, His said Grand-nephew, (who 
had lived with hira part of the time,) further 
informed rae, that this Rev. Father was the 
Missionary at Bristol, about 40 years, that 
he was much beloved by his flock for his 
zeal and piety, and that his manner of living 
was very plain and moderate. He died at 
Bristol, 8 April, 1778, set. 82 ; and bis re- 
mains were deposited in St. ./awes's Church 
Yard, opposite ibe Church Porch, 

* Sefton, John; born 26 March, 1742 ; 
admitted at the age of 20; died at Ghent, 
24 April, 1766. 

Sefton, Thomas; born in Lancashire, 
14 July, 1719; entered the Novitiate in 
1738 ; died at Ghent, 6 February, ^748. 

* Selby, Thomas: born 10 March, 1708 ; 
admitted 1731 ; died at Ghent, 7 January, 
1759. 

Selosse, Anthony. — I meet with two 
Fathers of this name, both of French Flan, 
ders; probably Uncle and Nephew. 

The Senior was made a Spiritual Coad- 
jutor in 1669/ and died at St. Omer, 27 
March, 1687. 

The Junior was admitted 5 October, 
1671, and after his Ordinations resided at 
Burton Castle, as Chaplain to Lady Goring, 
and was in the habit of attending at Chi- 
chester, a distance of 5 miles, on Sundays, 
to give instructions on the Catholic faith. 
In December, 1688, he was apprehended, 
and thrown into jail, where he took a Rheu- 
matic fever ; but at the end of 16 months 
was discharged, as a foreigner, at the in- 
stance of the Spanish Ambassador. He 
continued nearly 2 years in England, after 
the recovery of his liberty, and then retired 
to St. Omer, where he exchanged a life of 
meritorious suffering for a blissful immor- 
tality, 11 May, 1696, set. 43. 

Semmes, Joseph: born in Maryland 1 
Dec. 1743; admitted 7 September, 1761, 
and eight years later was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Philosophy. He continued in the 
same office until the emigration from Liege, 
in 1794; he then resumed it at Stonyhurst: 
but for several years before his death taught 
Divinity also. This excellent man died at 
Stonyhurst, 26 September, 1809. 

N.B.F. Semmes obtained in 1781, from 
the Court of Munich, a renewal of the pen- 
sion to Liege College, originally granted 
by the Prince Elector, Maximilian, from his 
own proper funds, on 8 September, 1626. 
Unfortunately the bad faith of the Bavarian 
Government stopt the continuance of the 
payment in the ensuing year (1782.) 

* Serrell, Jambs. This Temporal 
Coadjutor was admitted in 1687 : and died 
at Dunkirk, 9 August, 1716, set. 51. 

Sewall, Charles; born in Maryland, 
4 July, 1744 with his brother Nicholas he 
reached St. Omer's College, as Pensioners, 
16 December, 1758 ; admitted in 1764. Re- 



tiring to his native country, as a Missioner, 
soon after the suppression of the Society, he 
continued his apostolic labours until his 
pious death, 10 November, 1806, set. 62. 

Sewall, Nicholas, younger brother of 
Charles. 

He was born in Maryland, 9 December, 
1745. After studying Humanities, at St. 
Omer's College, he entered the Novitiate of 
the Society, at Ghent, 31 October, 1766. 
T)ie year after the S uppression of the Order, 
viz. in July, 1774, he was sent to the Pres- 
ton Mission, as assistant to tlie Rev, John 
Jenison, and there he continued for nine 
years. In 1783, he removed to Eccleston 
Hall, where he was chaplain for three years. 
In 1787 he was appointed to the charge of 
the faithful, at Scholes, near Prescott, vice 
F. Peter Westby, and this mission so rapidly 
improved under his zealous auspices, as to 
justify him to commence the erection of a 
spacious chapel, and a convenient house 
for the incumbent. This respectable estab- 
lishment retains the name of Portico, which 
was originally assigned it by the late Rev, 
Wra. Meynell, from the circumstance of the 
Colonnade at the Chapel entrance. This 
Chapel was opened for public worship in 
May, 1790. F. Sewall retired from this la- 
borious mission, to Stonyhurst College, at 
Michaelmas, 1808, and rendered much va- 
luable service to that community. On the 
death of Rev. Charles Plowdeu, in the sum- 
mer of 1821, F. Sewall succeeded to the 
office of Provincial ; and his government 
was characterized by prudence and decision 
of purpose, and by a spirit of improving 
chapels. Resigning bis office in February, 
1826, he took charge of the little College, a t 
Hodder Place, for some time; and then 
proceeded to Worcester, to assist his highly 
valued friend, the Rev. Joseph Tristram 5 
and had the comfort of seeing the new, 
large, and handsome Chapel of that city,, 
opened with solemnity, 16 July, 1829. 

F. Sewall was a man of regular and re- 
tired habits, much given to prayer and mor- 
tification ; yet always cheerful and obliging. 
The progress and prosperity of our holy Re. 
ligion was the object nearest and dearest to 
his heart ; and indeed be bad great cause to 
rejoice and exult in the Lord, especially 
when he witnessed the wonderful propaga- 
tion of the Catholic Faith, in his native 
land. When the united States of America 
were subject to the English Domination, 
the very exercise of the Catholic Religion* 

* As a proor of tbe prevaihng bad spirit. Congress 
at Boston, 9 September, 1773, declared " the late 
Act establishing the Catholic Religion in Canada is 
dangerous in an extreme degree to the Protestant 
Keligion, and to the civil rights and liberties of 
America!!!" But unfortunately they had learnt 
this lesson of intolerance from the Mother Country , 
Proh pudor ! England has been the last of civilized 
Christian nations to part with bigotry and the spirit 
of Persecution. After our solemn agreement by the 
Articles of Capitulation of the Cape of Good Hope 
10 January 1806, that " the property of all the 
Churches should remain free and untouched, and all 



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was degraded, proscribed and persecuted ; 
but no sooner had these States established 
iheir independance of the raother coun'ry, 
than they proclaimed universal liberty of 
conscience, and afforded Religion itself 
Fair play. F. Sewall survived to behold 
Baltimore erected into a Metropolitan See 
with eleven Suffragan Bishopricks. I have 
heard him say, that he remembered the lime, 
when the Catholics had not even a private 
room in Baltimore, where they were suffered 
to assemble for prayer; and he lived to see 
it embellished with a noble Catholic Cathe- 
dral, and seven Catholic Parish Churches, 
with Bells inviting the numerous faithful 
to the celebration of their Religions Rites ! ! 
The death of F. Sewall, was like his life, 
most edifying to men, honourable to reli- 
gion, and precious in the sight of God. He 
calmly surrendered his soul to its Creator, 
14) March, 1834, in the 89th year of his age 
and his remains were deposited in the Ce- 
metery, adjoining the Worcester Chapel. * 

* The following extracts from a letter, dated St. 
Inigo's Manor, Maryland, of F. Fidelis Grivel, who 
was Visitor and Spiritual Father, at Stonyhurst, for 
a considerable time, will interest the reader. "I 
spread as far as I could the sad and painful news of 
the demise of our good F. Nicholas Sewall, in order 
to have him recommended to the H. Sacrifices and 
prayers of his fellow Jesuits, friends and relatives ; 
and I succeeded. Recenty I accompanied F. 
Joseph Carbery to Mattapany, 16 miles north of St. 
Inigo; we have there a congregation of 600 commu- 
nicants, with a Church dedicated to St Nicholas. 
The Sewalls are great benefactors to it. Mattapany 
(an Indian name,) is situated on a hill on the S. side 
of the Patuzent. Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, 
son ofCecilJias, made Mattapany his favourite resi- 
dence from 1662 to 1682, when he returned to Eng- 
land and died, in 1714, as good a Catholic as his 
Father and Grandfather. His son, Benedict 
Leonard Calvert, wishing the proprietorship of 
Maryland, which had been taken from his father by 
William III. to be restored,' turned Protestant, and 
took his seat in Parliament, and recovered the pro- 
perty. In the mean time Mattapany had come into 
the possession of the Jesuits, who sold it to the 
dewalls. The fortified residence of Charles Calvert 
aforesaid, was in such decayed condition, that the 
ancestor of our F. Nicholas Sewall built a fine brick 
house at a short distance from it, and in that house 
F. Nicholas Sewall was born. Indeed I walked 
with delight in the place where our good friend had 
been playing and saying his prayers, when a child, 
I regretted he was gone from us ; for he would have 
been pleased with my details about the place of 
his birth and baptism. But nowheis nomore! and 
the Manor belongsto Henry S^waZ/, a great cousin 
of our F. Nicholas; the branch ofhis nephews is 
liviEg at a short distance and are very wealthy too. 
At this Manor of St. Inigo, where this is dated, and 
abo'it half a mile from our Atissionary House, landed 
25 or 26 March, 1634, Lord Cecilius Baltimore, with 
F.Andrew White and four other English Jesuits, 
and two hundred Catholic Settlers. The first Mass, 
in the British Colonies of North America, having 



the rights &ni privileges of Pahlic Worship should 
be maintained without alteration^' what was our 
good Faltli ? and what our conduct ? The Dutch 
Government had maintained 3 Catholic Ministers: 
the English Government sent them all out of the 
Country!!! T hanks to Heaven ! NOVV the wo rth- 
less word Toleration is expunged from the vocabu- 
lary of all true Lovers of Fi eedom ; as it implies a 
discretionary power to mitigate Persecution, the 
rightoftha Civil Goveruer to tamper with and re- 
gulate Conscience. 



F Sewall in 1S22, had printed at Liver- 
pool, in an Octavo Volume of 526 pages — 
" Select Lives of Saints from the work of 
the Reverend All/an Butler," It is a very 
judicious selection. 

Shackleton, William. In theProvin- 
cial Return of 1655, he is stated to be a na- 
tive of Lancashire, to be then 78 years of 
age, of which he had spent 43 in the Socie- 
ty, and 40 in the Mission ; and that he was 
admitted to the Profession of the Four So- 
lemn Vows 23 February, 1623. He must 
have died very shortly after that return was 
forwarded to Rome. 

Shakpe, James oi John, (alias Pollard) 
of a good family in Yorkshire : was admit- 
ted into the Order in 1608, and two years 
later was sent to the English Mission, where 
he had to endure as severe a trial from the 
insidious endearments of his parents and 
kindred, as many martyrs have sustained 
from the barbarity of tyrants. But he ge- 
nerously renounced everything for the love 
of Christ. Banished from England, he con- 
rived to return, and laboured with great 
fruit in the vineyard, until his happy death 
11 November, 1630. He was professed 12 
May, 1622. See F. More's Hist, from p. 
358 to 363.— Under the initials I. S., thi 
zealous Father published in 4to. the very 
year he died (1630) " The Examination 
of the private Spirit of Protestants.'' 

Shaw, ' I meet with two Fathers 

of this name. The 1st, John, born 26 
March, 1739: joined the Society at the age 
of 20 ; served the Mission of Bedford in 
Lancashire for many years: died at Stony- 
hurst 1 September, 1808. 

The 2nd, William^ of Lancashire, whose 
real name was Woodcock : admitted 10 De- 
cember, 1709, at the advanced age of 50. 
He died in England 11 October, 1717. 

Sheffield, Ignatius, see Anderson, Wil' 
Ham. 

Sheldon, Henry. — There were two Fa. 
thers so called. The 1st was admitted in 
1670, aet. 18: occurs Professor of Scripture 
and Controversy at Liege in 1701 : was 
Rector of the House of Probation at Ghent, 
from 1703 to 1707 : died at St. Omer 20 
October, 1714, aet. 62. 



been celebrated 25 March, on St. Clement's Island, 
now Heron Island, seven miles up from our house, 
the name of St. Marj's was given to the River itself. 
Four Canons brought from England, by Lord Balti- 
more, now lie rusty and useless, in the yard of this 
Manor, as a curiosity. St. Inigo's congregation has 
500 communicants and a eood church; and the 
people in this corner are very much like, for faith 
and singleness, to the Lancashire People." 

N.B. Ann Arundell, the accomplished Daughter 
of Thomas, the 1st Lord Arundell of Wardour, was 
the wifeof the above-mentioned Cecil Calvert, Baron 
of Baltimore, Lord of Glastonbury, and Proprietor 
of Maryland. She died 23 July, 1649, ajt. 34. Her 
marriage Portion was Jlooh Fartn.m Semley Parish, 
Wilts, but his Lordship having had no issue by her, 
restored it on his death to the Arundell Family, and 
it still constitutes part of tlio Wardour property. 



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The 2nd, younger brother of F. Ralph 
Sheldon, was born in 16S5 : joined the or- 
der in 1705: was Professed in 1723: was 
appointed Rector of the English College at 
Rome, from June 1738 to autumn of 1744, 
at the expiration of which terra he was de- 
clared Provincial of his brethren, viz., 28 
November that year, and was much beloved 
by his BB. for " his easy, courteous, affable 
and charitable behaviour." The General F. 
Francis Retz, had charged him, on entering 
office, at that critical period, (o forbid all 
his subjects to meddle with secular affairs, 
and if necessary to impose a precept of 
obedience/' as I find by F. T. Hildeyard's 
letter of 23 August, 1745. In this office 
he continued till October, 1751, when he 
\vas re-appointed Rector of the English Col- 
lege at Rome, and there he died 1 January, 
1756, at. 70. 

* Sheldom, Hugh, of Staffordshire, ad- 
mitted at Tournay 24 August, 1603, was ex- 
traordinarily skilful in contriving hiding 
places. However, he was at last discovered 
in LordVaux's house, and immured in Wis- 
bick Castle. Sentenced to perpetual banish 
ment, I find him at Rome in 1608, attached 
to F. Persons, in the place of John Lily* 
He died at Rome, date unknown. 

Sheldon, Joseph, admitted in 1705, at 
the age of 18 : further particulars I cannot 
gain. 

Sheldon, Ralph, 3rd son of Ralph Shel- 
don, of Weston, in Warwickshire, Esquire, 
by his wife, Mary, (Elliott) admitted in 
1700 : was Professed 18 years later. In 
1728 he occurs as Minister of Liege College, 
and there he died 8 March, 1741, eet. 60. 

Shelly, Francis, born in Hants in 1634 
joined the Society at the age of 20. Fur- 
ther particulars I cannot ascertain. 

Shelly, Henry, entered the Novitiate 7 
September, 1662. Whilst pursuing his stu- 
dies at Liege, he died 20 April, 1682, set. 23. 

* Shelly, John.— After all his sons had 
become Priests, (two of them Jesuits, who 
I suppose were FF.Owen and 1'homas) 
and after two of his daughters had embraced 
the religious state, he had the weakness to 
conform to the Protestant Church ; but he 
sincerely repented and died a lay-brother 
at Liege, 27 October, 1662. See p. 449 
More's Hist. 

Shelly, Owen, was Rector of Liege in 
1^25. as I collect from the General of the 
Society, Mutius Vitteleschi's letter addres- 
sed to him 20 September, that year. In 
1640 he obtained permission to return to the 
English Mission, where he died 8 June, 
1666, aet.81. Rel. 51. 

Shelly, Thomas, born in Sussex in 1587, 
admitted at the age of 33. Professed 7 Oc^ 
tober, 1632. The Annual Letters report 
that he died in the residence of St. Mary, 
10 January, 1651, set. 64. Soc. 32. Proft 
l9. For 24 years he had laboured in the 
Mission j but his delight was, to be attend- 
ing on the Poor: 



Shelly, Walter, born 13 February, 
1701 : admitted at the age of 16, Professed 
at Liege 2 February, 1735. He taught Phi- 
losophy there. His death took place at An- 
twerp 21 February, 1750. 

* Shepherd, Peter, di-ed at Buren 21 
March, 1733, set. 29 Rel. 8. 

Sherwood, John, one of the children of 
Henry and Elizabeth Sherwoood, of London, 
and brother to Thomas Sherwood, who 
suffered Martyrdom at Tyburn, 7 February, 
1578. A M.S. written by another brother, 
informs me " that their parents had been 
great sufferers for the Catholic Faith— that 
John was articled at the age of 15 to one 
Mr. Waferer, a Catholic Counsellor of the 
Law, with whom he continued certain years 
profiting well in that course; but being 
moved by God's grace, went to Rheims, 
and afterwards entered into the Society, and 
died in the same, much commended as well 
for his learning as life." 

Shireburn, Charles. The Gentleman's 
Magazine of 1745, p. 52, informs us that 
this Reverend Father was related to the 
Duchess Dowager of Norfolk.^' He was 
born in Lancashire, and 7 September, 1702, 
joined the Society. For many years, whilst 
serving the Norfolk Mission, he was Rector 
of his Brethren in the College of the Holy 
Apostles. On 2 February, 1720, he was 
enrolled amongst the Professed' Fathers. 
He filled the ofiice of Provincial from Sep- 
tember 1740, until the latter end of Novem- 
ber, 1744. Shortly after retiring from this 
dignity, he died in London, viz, 17 January, 
1745, set. 61. This good Father had much 
to suffer in mind from the dishonest and 
abominable conduct of Archibald Bower. 

* Shireburn, Thomas, of Lancashire, 
This Temporal Coadjutor died in Maryland, 
23 July, 1670, set. 43. Rel. 18. 

Shneider, Theodore, born in Germany, 
7 April, 1703 : admitted 35 September, 
1721 : Professed in 1749. This zealous 
Missionary died in Pensylvania, 10 July, 
1764. 

Short, Francis, born in Suffolk, 23 
September, 1718: admitted in 1737 : Pro- 
fessed in 1755. He died in the College of 
St. Thomas, 9 November, 1755, (at South- 
end.) 

Shuttleworth, John, see Richardson, 
John. 

Silisdon, Edward, of Suffolk : accord* 
ing to the Provincial Return of 1655, was 
then 61 years of age : had spent 38 years 
in the Society and 20 in the Mission — had 
been Professed 28 October, l630--wa s the 
Actual Superior of the Worcestershire Mis- 
sion. His death occurred 3 January, 1659. 

Silisdon Henry, ^brother* I think, of 
Edward, admitted at the age of 18.-~-Pro- 
fessedSO August, 1618 — was the 2Dd Rector 
of Liege College ; but removed the Novices 
thence to Watten, in 162^, and was the 1st 
Rector of this new Establishment. In the 
sequel he filled the ofiice of Provincial, from 



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1646, to 1650, a period of great difficulty. I 
cannot ascertain the precise date of his death 

SiMCocKS, alias Manners, John, born in 
London. A. D. 1609. After distinguishing 
himself, as a Scholar, as a Professor of Phi- 
losophy at Perugia— as a Prefect of Studies, 
he was appointed Rector of the English Col- 
lege at Rome, from 1657, to 1659, and then 
made Penitentiary at Loretto. In 1667, he 
was ordered to the English Mission. Three 
years later he published atLondonin octavo 
The Unwearied Searcher." He was 
still living in 1676. 

Simeons, Edward, was admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1649: joined the Society: died in En- 
gland 6 January, 1701, O. S. 

Simeons, Krancis, of Hants, whose real 
name was /^^^^>^^n.^ ; admitted into the Or- 
der, he imbibed largely of its spirit; and 
suffered much during Gates' Plot, from fa- 
tigue and confinement, though never appre- 
hended. •* Obiit ex cerumnis" 26 June, 
1680, set. 60. Soc. 39. Prof. 22. 

Another of this name, of London, died a 
Scholastic at Liege, I June, 1678, eet. 23. 
Soc. 5. 

Simeons, James. Tliis Scholastic died 
at Liege, 21 May, 1714, set. 21, Rel. 5. 

Simeons, Joseph, born in Hants: was 
admitted in I6i6, an Alumnus of the Eng* 
lish College at Rome, and two years later 
a Novice of the Society of Jesus. The date 
of his solemn Profession is 25 January, 
1633. Few members of the English Pro- 
vince are better intitled to commendation 
for Genius, Piety, and great usefulness, than 
F. Simeons. After leaching the Belles 
Lettres with the highest reputation at St, 
Omer ; and Philosophy , Theology, and Scrip- 
ture, at Liege ; in January 1647 he vtras 
appointed Rector of the English College at 
Rome for three years. Subsequently he 
|)res)ded over his Brethren at Liege : then 
was employed in the English Mission, and 
for the four last years of his life, was pro- 
vincial of his Brethren. Whilst exercising 
this office in London, viz, in the beginning 
of 1669, His Royal Highness, James Duke 
of York sent for him, (as we read Vol.1, 
p, 440-1, Lifeof James II. London, 1816) 
" The Father told him, after a long conver- 
sation, that unless he would quit the Com- 
munion of the Church of England, he could 
mt be received into the Catholic Church- 
that the Pope had no power to grant bis 
Royal Highness a dispensation for outwardly 
appearing a Protestant, for it was an unal-, 
terable doctrine of the Catholic Church 
* Not to do ill, that good might follow.'* 
What this good Jesuit thus said, was after- 
wards confirmed to the Duke, by the Pope 
himself, to whom he wrote upon the same 

* In condemning Mr. Catesbie's proceeding in 
the Gunpowder Plot, F. Gerard, in his narrative of 
that Event, says, how easily impassioned and bias- 
sed men may be deceived, and quotes this same 
Doctrine of the apostle, Rom, 111. v. 8, 

2 z 



subject." F. Simeons had the merit and 
consolation of reconciling his Royal High- 
ness to the Catholic Church ; and departed 
to our Lord in London, 24 July, O. S. 1671 , 
set. 76. We have from the pen of this emi- 
nent Scholar, 

1. Two Latin Tragedies " ^eno el Mer- 
cid" 8vo Rome, 1648, pp. 235. 

2. " Quinqtte Tragedice'' 12rao Liege, 
1656. Seep. 525 Biblioth. Scriptorura, S.J. 

3. Answer to Dr. Pierce's Sermon 
preached before his Majesty.'^ 1 Feb. 
1663. 12mo. London, 1663, pp. 121. 

A nother Simeons, Joseph, born 22 March, 
1691, joined the Society 28 June, 1713: 
died at Ghent 9 July, 1728. 

*Simner, George, born ia Lancashire 
10 August, 1725 : at the age of 22, was 
received as a Lay-brother: for many years 
served in the English College at Rome, 
After the dissolution of the Order, he lived 
with F. J. Thorpe in that city, and there 
died in November, 1783. 

Simpson, Anthony, Aloysius. His real 
name was SioJicst: born 16 June, 1741, 
and was a member of the Society and teach- 
ing at Rouen, before the expulsion of his 
brethren from ungrateful France. He said 
his first Mass 21 July, 1765. For many 
years this Rev. Father lent the aid of his ex- 
perience and talents to Stonyhurst College, 
as Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics 
Returning to France, after the '^nd restora- 
tion of Lewis XVIII, he was made Provin- 
cial, and revived the genuine spirit of the 
Institute. He died at St. Acheol 25 June, 
1820. 

Simpson, Chbistopher, of Yorkshire. 
In 1634,(27May,) when in Priest's Orders, 
he commenced his Noviceship at W atten; 
and 25 October, 1648, was promoted tothe 
rank of a Professed Father. His Mission 
was in Northumberland, where he kept a 
select Academy, which was frequented by 
the children of the Protestant Gentry as well 
as Catholic. This zealous Father died in 
peace 3 March, 1674, aged 68. 

Simpson, Joseph. — From the Florus 
Anglo-Bavaricus, I collect, that he fell a 
victim of Charity in attending the infected 
at Ipres, 11 October, 1667. 

Skinner, John. — I meet with two of 
this name. The elder was admitted at 
Watten 7 September, 1679, set. 18— was 
serving the Lancashire Mission in the 
years 1701-1704, and, 1 think, died there 16 
October, 1708. 

The Junior joined the Society 7 January, 
1688, set. 26. 

Sl^de, William, of Shrewsbury. Ac- 
cording to Dodd, Vol. II. Ch. Hist, p. 143, 
from being a valuable Missionary, he be- 
came a Jesuit in 1585. 

Slaughter, Edward. Admitted into 
the Society 7 September, 1673: Professed 
18 years later. Was Rector of Liege Col- 
lege from 1701 to 1704. When Jolm 
Churchill, the Earl, (afterwards Duke J of 



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Marlborough, took the City and Citadel of 
Liege in the campaign of 1702, he honoured 
the Rector with a visit, and shewed him 
special Courtesy. F. Slaughter was subse- 
quently Rector of St. Omer and Ghent ; but 
for the last seven years of his life remained 
at Liege " sine officio," preparing himself 
for his last passage. On 20 January, (ac- 
cording to the Provincial's Book^ 1729, st, 
74, he passed to a better life. 

He was the author of that excellent work, 
Grammatica Hebraica," 12mo. Amster* 
dam, 1699, reprinted in 1834 by the Congre- 
gation of the Propaganda at Rome, also of 
" Arithmetica." 12mo. Liege, 1702 — Re- 
printed in 1725. 

Slingsby, Fkakcis, converted at Rome 
in September, 1633, became a Convictor of 
the English College at Rome 1 February, 
1639 ; entered the Novitiate of St, Andrew 
30 September, 1641. Died at Naples. 

* Sluyper, Peter, admitted in 1690. 
This valuable Lay-brother died at Liege 
21 February, 1733, set. 67. 

Smallwood, Joseph, admitted 18 March, 
1694 : died at Ghent 9 April, 1716, set. 50- 
" In Missione Marilandicd impigro opere 
servierat et longo et gravissimo morho 
patienter tolerato, tandem exhaustus oc- 
cubiiit — An. Lit. 

Smith, Clement, joined the Society, 7 
September, 1678, on finishing his Humanities 
at St. Omer's College. After receiving 
Holy Orders, was sent to the Lancashire 
Mission; but was soon after involved in 
the storm of the Revolution, and nearly fell 
a victim to its wanton fury. I suspect he 
resided at Furness or its neighbourhood; 
Tb« account of his adventures to escape the 
pursuit of his enemies, reports that '•'crehro 
inter noctis tenebras, per loea ob eestu$ 
marinas ita periculosa ut vel Equites^ 
diurno etiam tempore^ hand sine magno 
vitcB discrimine ea pervadant, ipse pedi' 
bus ingredi coactus est." The text pro- 
ceeds to describe his hardships, " Scepenu- 
mero etiam per integras hebdomadas 
Vestes ne semel quidem exult, ne forte 
apparitores inopinato obreperent. Per 
tres menses ita latere est coactus, ut vel in 
cubiculo sua deamhulare vel ibi candelam 
ignemve per integrum annum admittere, 
haudquaque auderet. Pedem vero domo 
efferre per lotum Biennii spatium ei nan 
licebat." 

We can hardly wonder that such anxiety 
and confinement must have undermined his 
constitution* He died 8 September, 1695, 
set. 38» 

Smith, Edmund, entered the Novitiate at 
Watten 7 September, 1690; was admitted 
a Spiritual Coadjutor eleven years later. I 
believe that he served the Mission of Wigan. 
His death took place 11 August, 1727, aet 
€1. 

Smith, George. — I meet with two Mem- 
bers of this name. — The Senior was born in 
the County of Durham : at the age of 20 



joined the Society. After serving the Mis- 
sion 30 years, he was called up to receive 
his retribution by the Master of the vine- 
yard, 18 October, 1671, at. 60. 

The Junior was admitted 7 September, 
1703, eet. 24 : died at Liege 15 March, 17 1 2. 

Smith, Hemry, born 11 November, 
1699 ; enrolled himself amongst the Novices 
at Watten in 1724; was Professed in 1736; 
succeeded F. Jos. Scarisbiick, at Duttnn 
Hall, near Preston ; died 1 (Q. 10) May 
1756. 

Smith, James, see Hunter, Anthony, 

Smith, John. — I meet with three of this 
name. The 1st in p. 312 Vol. Ill, Dodd's 
Church Hist. His truenarae was Harrison, 
born near Liverpool. It appears that he 
was Chaplain to Mr. Massey, of Wrexen, 
^now called Rixton) near Warrington — 
that he was wrongfully accused of being an 
accomplice in the robbery of Winwick Par- 
sonage, and executed at Lancaster. He is 
said to have had manj excellent qualities. 
It is a pity, that Mr. Dodd was not mors 
particular as to dales and circumstances. 

The 2nd F. John Smith was a native of 
Suffolk; was admitted in 1640; twelve 
years later proceeded to theEn^lish Mission, 
where he died 23 August, 1661, set. 40. 

The 3rd was born 7 October, 1669; en- 
tered the Novitiate in 1688; was Professed 
in 1706. The An. Letters of 1710 shew 
that he was one of the three Missionarii 
liberi in urbe Londinensi quivere JpostO' 
licis laboribus se totos dant magno cum 
fructu.'' I believe that he entirely resided 
in London, for I find that be was declared 
Superior of his brethren in the College of St. 
Ignatius, 27 September, 1743 — that he con- 
tinued in that office until 31 January, 1749, 
— and that he died in London 4 August, 
1754, set. 95. 

Smith, Joseph, (alias Wilcey) born 10 
December, 1725; admitted in 1746 : Pro- 
fessed eighteen years later. 

This F. Smith was successor at Preston 
to F. Patrick Barnwell, who died 1 Febru- 
ary, 1762. During a contested election for 
the Borough, he had much to dread and 
endure froir popular bigotry. 

The New Chapel in Friar Gate was gut- 
ted by the brutal Mob : and to save himself 
from his pursuers, he was obliged to swim 
through the Ribble on Horseback. He died 
i May, 1768, i:i the prime of life, aged 43. 

Smith, Nicholas. I find from a Letter 
of F. Persons to F. Edmund Campian, then 
at Prague, dated from Rome, 28 November, 
1578, that this youth had just entered the 
Society at Rome, — ih&t he was born in 
Paternoster-Row, London, and was a 
nephew to — Smythye, M.D. In the se- 
quel this Father acted as occasional Secre- 
tary to F. Persons. One of his letters dated 
26 May, 1602, I have read. I believe he 
was Confessor for a time in the English 
College at Douay. See Dodd's Church 
Hist. Vol. If. p. 137. 



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Q. Was he not the Author of a " Mo- 
dest hriefe Discussion of some Points 
taught by M. Djctour Kellison, in his 
Treatise of the Ecclesiastical HierarcyV 
8vo. Roueu, 1630, pp. 205. See also Note 
to p. 24)7 of Plowden's Remarks on the Me- 
moirs of Gregorio,Panzani. A Latin TranS' 
lation of a ''^Modest Brief Discussion," 
was published at Antwerp, l2mo. 1631, 
pp. 262. 

* Smith, Michael. — This Temporal 
Coadjutor was born at Blackburn, 14 No- 
vember, 1798 : died at the Seminary, 9 Oc- 
tober, 1836, Kel. 9 : buried at Stonyhurst. 

Smith, Richard. 1 think was a native of 
Sussex, and was entered an alumnus of the 
English College at Rome in 1679. Pro- 
bably he was admitted into the Society in 
that city. He was Professed in England, 
15 August, 1697 ; was declared Rector of 
his brethren in the College of St. Aloysius, 
1 September, 1724, and continued in office 
till 1 August, 1728. It appears that he 
was Chaplain at Culcheth, near Warring- 
ton. He died 22 September, 1735, O.S, 

Smith, Ralph, of Northumberland, We 
learn from p. 4GI, of More's Hist., that 
whilst a student at the English College at 
Rome, he took a decided part with the Mal- 
contents against the Society; but after 
receiving Priest's Orders, hastened to atone 
for his fault by embracing the Institute of 
St. Ignatius. He died of Consumption at 
Liege, 11 April, 1627, set. 28. 

Smith, Thomas. I find Four Members 
of this name.— The 1st was Master of Arts 
at Oxford, and whilst Preceptor in Lord 
Vaux's Family, became acquainted with 
F. John Gerard, who reconciled him to the 
Catholic Church. The young Convert en- 
tered the Novitiate of St, Andrew's at 
Roi«e, with Robert Lee and Thomas 
Strange.— In a Letter of F. Persons, dated 
15 October, 1604, I discover that this F. 
Smith was then at Loretto, but he must 
shortly af:er have quitted. F. Gerard, in.his 
Auto-13iogiaphy, written about the year 
1609, says of him " his quatuor ultimis 
annis mansit Audomari. — 

The 2nd died in England, 31 January, 
1681, of whom I glean no particulars. 

The 3rd, admitted 1 July, 1691. was Pro- 
fessor of Poetry at St. Oraer, in 1704. and 
died in England 9 April, 1721, set. 49. 

'* The 4th was a Temporal Coadjutor : 
admitted 7 September, 1698. This good 
religious died at Liege, 2 August, 1745, 
aet.70. 

Smith, William, a Staffordshire man ; 
admitted in 1625 : Professed 22 June, 1640 ; 
lied in England 13 September, 1658, eet. 
34. 

Smithers, William. — In the Journal 
kept at Wattea I read, " 1685, June 14— 
F. William Smithers stifled at St. Omer." 
The An. Letters report that a workman ex- 
mining a subterraneous vault but recently 
onstructed, was so overcome by the vapour, 



as to die away, " inclamato prius confessa- 
rio, aQCurrit P, Gul. Smithus, et quarti' 
vis monitus de perictdo, si caveam ingre- 
deretur, tamen ut expiranii absolutionem 
impertiret, vitam suam proximi saluti 
posthabuit, ac datd absolutionem protinus 
ipse quoque extinctua est, prceclara victi- 
ma Charitatis." — F.S. had entered the So- 
ciety 10 years before, and at his death was 
29 years old. 

Smithson, John.— I meet with two mem- 
bers of this name. The first was a York - 
shireman ; joined the Order at the age of 
25 J was Procurator at Rome in 1655; died 
in England 2 August, 1684. set. 72. 

* The 2nd was a Lay-brother admitted 2 
December, 1719: made himself very useful 
by his skill in Medicine: died at Watten, 

16 February, 1749, set. 71. 

*Snow, Thomas, of Dorsetshire : died at 
Liege, after a long and painful illness, 6 
October. 1650, set. 66, Soc. 36. " Elucebat 
in illo singularis devotio — de rebus cales- 
tibus freqicenter loquebatur." — An. Lit. 

♦Soli, Francis:— I can learn nothing of 
him, but that he died at Rome, 12 March, 
1758. 

SoMMES, DE Charles, was admitted 1 
July, 1708, died in Maryland 12 February, 
1716, set. 30. 

•Somerville, Francis, was entered an 
ftlumnus of the English College at Rome, in 
1606; died there in January, 161?, set, 27 
having been previously admitted into the 
Society, 

Scuthcote, Edward, born 24 June, 
1697 ; admitted into the Novitiate 18 March, 
1719, and was Professed whilst serving the 
English Mission 18 August, 1737. This 
respected Father was the last male heir of 
the Judge Southcote, in Queen Elizabeth's 
time, and was the friend of Alexander 
Pope, the poet. On 25 February, 1780 .set. 
83, the venerable man died at Woodburn 
Farm, near Chertsey. 

•Southern, Francis Thomas. This 
Temporal Coadjutor was born 13 Sept, 
1686; admitted 10 Aug. 1720, died at St. 
Omer 25 July, 1754. 

St. Geodge, Joseph, born in France 17 
January, 1681, admitted 11 November, 
1 704. This inoffensive Father died at Liege 

17 January, 1763, set, 82, 
Southwell, John, of Hants, occurs in 

the catalogue of 1655, he was then 24 years 
old, had lived six years in the Society, and 
was a student of Divinity at Liege. 

Southwell, Nathaniel. What can be 
more meagre than Dodd's report of this dis- 
tinguished scholar ! p. 312, Vol. HI, Church 
Hist. To me it is most painful not to be 
capable of doing justice to the Biography of 
a mail, distinguished for high virtues, and 
superior talents, aod whose life was enga- 
ged in recording and illustrating the merits 
and writings of his Brethren, 

He was born in Norfolk ; was admitted 
into the English College at Rome, in 1617, 



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by the name of Nathaniel Bacon. The 
precise year of his admission into the So- 
ciety I have failed in ascertaining ; but it 
is known, that he left the said College, in 
the company of F. John Dormer, for Eng- 
land, 12 September, 1624. His absence, 
however, was of short duration : for 14 
September, 1G27, he succeeded F. Thomas 
Colford in the office of Minister, and imraeu 
diately commenced the College Diary. He 
continued to discharge the united office of 
Minister and Procurator, until 30 October, 
1637, when he was appointed Confessarius 
of the House. From this employment in 
the College he was removed to become Se- 
cretary to F. Vincent Caraffa, who was 
elected the 7th General of the Society, and 
died, as he had lived, raostholily, 8 June, 
1649. The application of F. S. to business 
his fitness, experience and knowledge of the 
affairs of the Order, induced the four suc- 
cessive Generals of the Society, FF. Picco- 
lomini, Gottifred, Nickel, and Oliva, to re- 
tain him in the same important and confi- 
dential situation. In the year 1668, he was 
permitted to retire, for the purpose of revi- 
sing and re-editing with copious additions, 
the " Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis 
Jesur This Folio Vol: of 982 pp., was 
published at Rome in 1676, and is a compi- 
lation truly admirable for research, accuracy, 
elegance of language, pieiy, and charity of 
sentiment. 

This very learned and religious Father, 
who, in health and in sickness, was regard- 
ed by his brethren as *' Simulacrum quod- 
dam Virtutis et Sanctitatis," died at Rome 
2 December, 1676, 

He was also the author of " ^ journal 
of Meditations for Every Day in the 
Year" 6vo. London, 1669. See my letter 
pp, 241-3 Cath, IMag., November, 1833. 
To which I may add this decisive memo- 
randum, made at Rome in 1694, on this sub- 
ject ** Originale autographum ephemeridis 
Meditationum P. Sotovelli conservator in 
cubiculo Procuratoris Montis Portii hoc 
anno 1694." 

Southwell, Robert, was born at St. 
Faith's, Norfolk, of an ancient and respect- 
able Family. Whilst an infant, he was 
stolen from the cradle by a vagabond wo- 
man, but being soon missed by his nurse, 
was speedily and happily recovered. This 
event served Robert for a subject of per- 
petual gratitude to God in future life. On 
the vigil of St. Luke, on 17 October, 1578, 
at. 18, this pious youth enrolled himself 
at Ronie , amongst the children of St. Igna- 
tius. He went through the higher studies 
with admirable success : was ordained 
Priest in the summer of 1684, and on 8 May, 
1586, left the Eternal City for England, 
with Fi Henry Garnet, and three months 
later reached his native Country. For a 
detailed account of his life we must refer 
the Reader to the 5th Book of F. More's 
Hist, and to Dr. Challoner's Memoirs. 



Apprehended in the house of Mr. Bellaruy, 
at Uxenden, on Sunday Morning, 5 July, 
1592, he was barbarously tortured, and after 
a long imprisonment was executed at Ty. 
burn, 21 February, 1595, set. 34. We have 
from his classic pen some beautiful Poems : 
many of them have been frequently pub- 
lished. 

" A short Rule of Good Life" ^vo. 
London. 

" A Letter of Consolation to the Catko - 
lie under restraint." 

" A supplication to the Queen Eliza* 
beth." 

" An epistle to his Father to forsake 
the World." 

I believe all these were originally printed 
at his Private press ; for F. Gerard (who 
knew him well) says P. Southwellus , qui 
in modo j uvandi et lucrandi animas ex- 
celluit, totus prudens et pius, mansuetus 
etiam et amabiiis valde — in domo s\i& Lon- 
dint Prcelum habuit ad imprimendos li-^ 
bros suos, quos quidetn edidit egrecjios.'* 
See my letter pp. 558-6^2. Cath Mag, of Sep- 
tember, 1832. 

In the An. Letters of 1635, written by 
F. Hen. More, the 2nd Provincial, and the 
Historian, I read "/« Collegia SS. Aposto- 
lorum turn Missione Suffolciensi. 

Soror Roberti Southwelli morbos gra- 
vis simos sanat, adhibitis Fratris sui Re- 
liquiis." 

The following is a list of F. Robert 
Southwell's poems, from the dl.S- Copy in 
the library of the Catholic Chapel Bury St. 
Edmunds. 

1. Letter to his Father, Richard Southwell' 

dated 22 Oct. 1589. 

2. Another Letter, dated Sept. 30, 1591 . 

3. To the Reader." Stanzas 3, lines 18. 
beginning 

" Deare eye that dost. " 

4. " The Conception of our Ladie." Stanzas 

3, lines 18, 

"Our second Eve." 

5. *' Our Ladie's Nativitye/' Stanzas 3, 

lines 18. 

" Joye in the risinge." 

(5. Our Ladie's Spousalls. Stanzas 3, 
lines 18* 

" Wife did she live ." 

7. " Our Ladie's Salutation." Stanzas 3, 

lines 18. 

" Eva barke and." ' 

8. " The Visitation." Stanzas 3, lines 18. 

" Proclayraed Queene." 

9. " The Nativitie of Christe," Stanzas 4, 

lines 24. 

Behould the Father." 

10. <' The Circumcision." Stanzas 3, 1. 18 . 

" The Head islearn'd." 

11. " The Epiphanie." Stanzas 4, 1, 24 

" To blaze the risinge." 

12. '* The Presentation." Stanzas3, 1. 18. 

"To be redeetn'd." 

13. " The Flight into Egypt.*' Stanzas 3, 

L18. 

" Alas, our day." 



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\i: Chrisie's retofue out of Egypt." 
Stanzas 3, I. 18. 

" When death and Hell." 

15. " Christe's childhoode." Stanzas 3jl. 
18. 

"Till twelve yere's age," 

16. " The Death of our Ladie." Stanzas 3. 

1. 18. 

" Weep living thinges." 

17. " The Assumption of our Ladie." 
Stanzas 3, 1. 18, 

" If Sinne be captive " 

18. " A childe my choise." 

" Let folly praise." 

19. " New Heaven, new Warre," Stanzas 

8, 1. 48 

" Come to your heaven." 

20. " The Burning Babe.'' 

"As I in hoary winter's night." 

21. " New Prince, new Pomp." 

Behoulda sely tender babe." 

22. " Sinne's heavy loade." Stanzas 7, 1, 
42. 

" O Lord, my sinne.'' 

23. " Christe's bloody sweate." Stanzas 4, 

1. 24. 

" Fat soyle, full springe " 
2i. " Christe's sleeping frendes." Stanzas 
8, 1.48. 

" When Christ with care " 
25. " Joseph's amazement." Stanzas 14. 
1. 84, 

" When Christ by growth." 
20. " St. Thomas of Aquin's Hymn, 
Stanzas 12, 1. 72. 

" Praise, O Syon." 

27. '* Of the B. Sacrament of the Altar." 

Stanzas 15, I. 90. 

" In Paschal feast." 

28. St. Peter's complaint." Stanzas £2, 
1,72. 

How can 1 live." 

29 . St. Peter's afflicted rainde." Lines 24, 

If that the Sick may grone." 

30. Mary Magdalen's Blushe." Stanzas 
6, 1, 36. 

" The signes of shame." 

31. " Saint Peter's Remorse." 

" Remorse upbraids my faultes " 

32. '* David's Peccavi:" Stanzas 5, 1, 30. 

33. " Dyer's Phancy turned to a sinner's 

complainte." 

" He that his mirth has lost," 

34. " A vale of Tears." Stanzas 19, I. 76. 

" A vale theie is." 

35. " The Prodigall Chyld's soulewracke." 

Stanzas 15, 1.50. 

36. *' Mary Magdalen's complaint at Christ's 
. death." S. 7. 1, 42. 

" Sith my life fiom." 

37. Decease, Release." Stanzas 9,1,30. 

" The pounded spice." 

38. " Idle without desert," Stanzas 6.1, 

86. 

" If orphan chllda." 

39. " Man's Civill Warre " 

"My hovering thoughts " 

40. " Life is but Losse." Stanzas 6, 1. 42, 

" By force 1 live." 

41. " Seek flowers of Heaven." 

*' Soaro up my soulo." 

42. " I die alive." Stanzas 4,1. 16. 

" O Life, what lotts thee " 

3 A 



43. " What joy to live." Stanzas 5 1.30. 

" I wage no warre " 

44. " Life's death loves life." 

" Who lives in love." 

45. " At Home in Heaven." Stanzas 7, 1, 

42. 

•' Faire Soule, howlong." 

46. " Looke home.'' Stanzas 4, 1.24. 

" Retired thoughtes." 

47. " Times go by Turnes," Stanzas 4, I. 

24. 

" The lopped tree." 

48. Losse in Delaye." Stanzas 7, 1. 42, 

" Shun delayes." 

49. " Love's servile lott." 

" Love, mistress Is." 

50. " Lewd love is loss." Stanzas 7, 1.42 

'• Misdeeming Eye," 

51. ** Love's garden griefe." 

" Vaine loves avaunt." 

52. " Fortune's Falsehoode." Stanzas 10. 

1. 40. 

" In worldely merymentes," 

53. " From Fortune's reach.'' Stanzas 4 

1. 24. 

" Let fickle Fortune.' ' 

54. Contente and Riche." Stanzas 17, 1. 
68. 

•' I dvv elle In grace's courte." 

55. " Scorne not the ieaste." Stanzas 4, 1. 

24. 

Southwell, Thomas, of Norfolk. In 
1610, eel. 18. arrived at the English College 
at Rome to study Philosophy: at the end 
of his course, viz., 1613, joined the Society. 
To talents of the first order he added inde- 
fatigable industry, whilst his meek virtues 
and unaffected humility diffused around him 
the sweet odour of Jesus Christ. For twelve 
years he taught Theology with the highest 
reputation ; but in the full maturity of age 
and genius, he was snatched away from his 
brethren at Watten. The date of his death 
is uncertain. The Florus Anglo Bavaricus 
fixes it to 1 1 October, 1 637. The Bibliothe- 
ca Scriptorura, S. J , 11 December that year . 
Strange to say F. Henry More, in the An- 
nual Letters of 1637, mentioning the deaths 
at Watten, reports but two, viz., Gerard 
Corbington and Edmund Cornelius. The 
Obituary at Stonyhurst dates his death 11 
December, I63I. This must be incorrect, 
for I have seen a letter of this Father writ- 
ten from Liege 14 May, 1632. This Rev. 
Father often passed by the name of Bacon, 

His learned work " liegula Viva scu 
Analysis Fidei in Dei per Ecclesiam nos 
(locentis Auctoritatem" was printed in 
1638. 4to. Antwerp, pp. 203. 

He had prepared for the Press a Vol. on 
" The first part of the Sum of St Thomas 
of Aquin." 

* SP4[ty, George, of Worcestershire: 
was admitted at Louvain for a Temporal 
Coadjutor 7 July, 1607, at. 27, 

Spencer ^ Edward, see Pcire, Edward. 

Spenceu, John, — ( The account of this 
great Polemical writer is any thing but cir- 
cumstantial in p. 53, Florus Anglo Bavari- 
cus :) sometimes called Vincefit llatcHfe, 



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was boin in Lincolnshire, in 1601; at the 
age of 25 joined the Society, and was ad- 
mitted to the profession of the FourVows, 
5 August, 1641. 

After teaching Theology and Scripture 
at Liege he was ordered to the English 
Mission, which he cultivated with indefa- 
tigable zeal for 20 years, and gained many 
souls to God by his forcible exhortations, 
and the attractions of his pious example. 
There he finished his course 17 January, 
1671. F. Spencer ranks anaongst the ablest 
polemical writers.— I have seen 

1st. His " Triale of the Prctestant 
Private Spirit.'' 4to. 1630, pp. 392. 

2. The Scripture Mistaken, the Ground 
of Protestant and Common Plea of all 
nem Reformers." 8vo. Antwerp, 1655, pp. 
405. 

3. " Thirty six Queries proposed to the 
Heretical Ministers in England.''^ 8vo. 
London, 1657. 

F. N. Southwell, p. 504, of the Biblio- 
theca, &c. says, that he was the Author of 
an 8vo. work, published in London, intitled 
** Aut Deus, autnihil," also Schism detec- 
ted,^' See Florus Anglo Bavaricus. 

Another F. John Spenser, (vere Char- 
nock,) was born iu Lancashire 21 June, 
1744: admitted in 1763: and for 36 years 
was employed in teaching the Belles Lettres 
at Liege and Stonyhurst. He was an ex- 
cellent Poet and very agreeable companion. 
After a short attack of Pleurisy he died at 
Stonyhurst most sincerely lamented, 1 
March, 1805. 

* Spenser, Joseph, of Lancashire ; ad- 
mitted 8 September. 1817 : made the Simple 
Vows at the expiration of his Noviceship. 
In 1821 he wasseutto Rome to study Theo- 
logy; but falling into a decline, he was or- 
dered to Fano, a small town on the Adriatic, 
for the benefit of his health, where he died 
most piously 8 June, 1823. 

Stafford, Charles, admitted in 1676. 
aet. 24, Prof. 1694. For many years was 
stationed in the Dorsetshire Mission, I think 
at Canford. Died at Ghent, 9 February, 
1732, set. 80. He was often called Hill. 

Stafford, Henry ; of Staffordshire ; 
admitted at the age of 19; Professed 20 
August, 1640; was Rector of Watten, 
from 1648 to 1651 ; died in England, 24 
August, 1657. 

Stafford, John, of Staffordshire ; 
born in 1604 ; joined the Society in 1623. 
I find by the Provincial's Return of 1655, 
that this Rev. Father had then been a Mis- 
sionary in England 24 years. 

*A Coadjutor of this name died at Liege, 
in 1631 . 

Stafford, John Joseph, (slM^^s Kellp) 
born 2 December, 1743, admitted 7 De- 
cember, 1762. 

Stafford, Ignatius, ( alias Lee,) of 
Staffordshire, joined the Society in Spain 
in 1618. At the English College of Lis- 
bon, served the office of Prefect of Spirit, 



and for eight years was Professor of Ma- 
thematics, in St. Anthony's College, also 
in that city. Confessor to the Marquess of 
Monte Albano, he accompanied him on that 
nobleman's appointment to the Vice-Royalty 
of the Brazils; but returning to Lisbon, he 
died there, 11 February, 1642, sBt. 43. He 
was the author of the life of F. Francis 
Mastrili, who was martyred for the faith, in 
Japan, 17 October, 1637. The work was 
written in Spanish and Printed at Lisbon, 
1639, in 4to. An Italian translation was 
published in the same size, at Viterbo,in 
1642. 

I printed in the Catholic Miscellany, for 
June, 1823, an original letter of F. Igna- 
tius Stafford, dated Lisbon, 26 April, 1625, 
giving an interesting account of the dis- 
covery of Sir Francis Tregian's body, in- 
terred 17 years before. It was found "in- 
corrupt and entire." 

Another Stafford Ignatius (alias 
Thorpe,) died in England, 17 June, 1720. 

Stafford, Nathaniel, died at St. Omer, 
10 October, 1697. 

Stafford, Robert, of Staffordshire ; 
admitted at the age of 24 ; Professed 29 
June, 1628 ; from 1633 to 1641 was Rector 
of the English Novitiate, at Watten, and 
then of the English College, at Rome. Or- 
dered to the English Mission he died 18 
November, 1659, set. 67. I suspect he was 
the translator into English of F. Ceparius' 
Latin life of St. Aloysius, 8vo. Paris, 1627,, 
pp. 518, with a fine portrait of the saint. 
The translation is dedicated to the Lady 
Mary Countess of Buckingham. 

* Stanfield, Gervase. — This Scholastic 
whilst studying the third year of Divinity, 
died at Liege 7 May, 1705, set. 31. Soc.8. 

Stanfield, Luke (alias Pippard,) born 
in London 29 Sept. 1716, made a Spiritual 
Coadjutor 1748, fifteen years after his ad- 
mission into the Society ; died in England 
5 January, 1761. 

Stanfield, RoBEr.T, was admitted 20 
Januarv, 1687, Prof. 1704. This venerable 
Father,' after a long Missionary Career, 
chiefly I believe in the College of St, Igna- 
tius, retired to Watten, where he died in 
peace 17 Sept. 1751, sat. 83. 

"Stanford, William. — This amiable 
and promising youth, whilst studying the 
2nd year of Philosophy at Liege, was sum- 
moned to an early grave 5 March, 1675, Bet. 
23. Soc. 4. Maxima spei adolescens ob 
presclaram ingenii indolem cum virtute 
conjunctam.'' — Ann Lit. 

Stanley, Edward. — I meet with two 
members of this name. The first was a na- 
tive of Lancashire, who joined the Society 
in 1634. He died at Watten 9 January, 
1639. 

*The 2nd was also of Lancashire and a 
lay-brother. He died of apoplexy at Ghent 
23 January, 1678 set. 66, Soc, 45 post 
multa in variis locis coadjutorum officia 
laudabililer peracta" Ann Lit. 



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StANLRY, Henry^ — There were two 
Fathers of this name. The elder was bora 
in Lancashire, 11 September, 1688, was 
admitted in 1706: professed 18 years later. 

For many years served the Oxfordshire 
Mission, where he died 27 November, 
1753. 

The Junior, born 12 March, 1713, joined 
the Society in 1732 : was professed 2 Feb- 
ruary, 1750 ; died at Moor Hall, Lan- 
cashire, 30 November, 1786. 

Stanley, Thomas, born at Hootcn, Che- 
shire, 17 January, 1715, O. S. became a 
Novice at Watten in 1732, and was en- 
rolled amongst the professed Fathers in 
1759. Of his subsequent life I can glean 
but little, except that he served Southworth 
several years, and left for Moor Hall in July, 
1763 ; but in a letter of F. John Thorpe, I 
read thus, — " The Religious virtues of F. 
Thomas Stanley have been remembered in 
the Roman and Lyons Province of the So- 
ciety. I saw him Master of Rhetorick at 
St. Oraer, and again on his return from 
Italy," On 21 December, 1769, he was 
declared Rector of the New College at Bru- 
ges, and continued in office for three years. 
Soon after the Marriage of his Niece to the 
late Thomas Weld, Esq., he went to reside 
with that pious couple, at Lullworth Castle, 
and there at length, full of years and rich in 
merits, this Venerable Father surrendered 
his meek and innocent soul to God, 2 June, 
1805. He was buried in the Vault of the 
Weld Family, with this Inscription from 
the pen of his Friend, the Rev, Charles 
Plowden. 

f 

Sepulchrum 
Thomas Stanley, Sacerdotis castisslmi, piissfmi 
Qui vixit annos LXXXX, menses V. In Soc. 

Jesu, quamdiu ea stetit annos XXXXI 
Collegii Brugensis olim Moderator. Decessit 
. IVNon. Junii An. MDCCCV, 

• Standish, Robert, of Essex, His 
true name was Wiseman. Died at St. An- 
drew's, at Rome, about the year 1591. 

Stanney, Thomas, of the Diocese of 
Salisbury. Dr. Allen, in recommending 
him by letter of 12 August, 1581, to F. 
Agazzari, the Rector of the English Col- 
lege at Rome, describes him as '^juvenis 
nobilis et moribus modestissimus,^* Be« 
fore he had finished his studies, he joined 
the Society. Sent in due time to the Mis- 
sion, he was cherished by F. Henry Gar- 
nelt, for his zeal and religious spirit. After 
fitting for Martyrdom the three laymen, 
Swithin Wells, Ralph Miller, and Laurence 
Humphries, he himself was apprehended, 
and during his severe confinement in the 
Gatehouse contracted much bodily infirmity. 
With 46 other Priests he was removed in 
1606 for perpetual banishment ; and retiring 
to St. Omer, died there of Apoplexy, 29 
May, 1617, set. 62, Rel. 28. See More's 
Hist. p. 286— Tanner's Lives—Bartoli. 

Stapleton, Thomas, of Lincolnshire, 
admitted at the age of 19 : was Rector of 



St. Omer's College from 1679 to 1683, an 
eventful crisis for his community, as a letter 
of his describes ; then was stationed at 
Roma, where he died 21 November, 1685, 
aged 53. 

*Starkie, William, {WisemanJ bro- 
ther of Robert Standish before mentioned : 
died at St. Oraer, about the year 1593. 

*Stevens, Adrian. — This good lay- 
brother died at St. Omer, 5 February, 1764, 
eet. 61, Rel. 39. 

Stevens, Henry Robert, admitted 
1683. In 1696 he was appointed Socius to 
F. Sabran, and Professor of Theology in the 
Episcopal Seminary of Liege. He died in 
that City, 15 June, 1723, set. 58, 

Stevens, John.— I meet with two Mem- 
bers of this name. The first was a Reve- 
rend Father and an able Scholar, born in 
Gloucestershire, A.D. 1603: was admitted 
into the Society at the age of 21 : was pro- 
fessed 4) May, 1640 : was Rector of the 
English College at Rome from 1659 to 1663 : 
at the expiration of his office was called to 
Liege to govern his Brethren there for the 
space of three years. I think he died there 
10 February, 1667. 

*The second was a good lay. brother, 
born 15 August, 1693 : admitted 14 August, 
1717 ; died at St. Omer, 9 August, 1747. 

* Stevens, Joseph. — Born 15 March, 
1689: admitted 9 October, 1711. He 
chiefly resided at Rome, where he died 27 
January, 1756, 

Stephens, Thomas, of the Diocese of 
Salisbury: admitted 11 October, 1578, 
when F. Persons in a letter to F. Wil- 
liam Good, describes him as '*a young man 
of great fervor and reasonable talent." 
The next year witnessed his employment 
in the West India Mission. In his letter to 
his brother, Richard Stephens, dated from 
Goa, 4 November, 1579, he says, that he 
sailed from Lisbon 4 April that year, and 
after a dangerous voyage reached Goa, 
24 October. In the M: S. life of F. 
Edmund Campian, begun by F. Persons, 
5 July, 1594, he says *' Mr. Thomas Ste- 
phens, of Oxford University, had lived and 
labored divers years most fruitfully in the 
East Indies. F. More, p. 30, antedates his 
death by ten years, for he certainly died at 
Goa in 1619, set. 70. We may also remark 
that F. Nathaniel Southwell, p. 178, Biblio- 
theca, antedates his admission into the So- 
ciety by three years. He was admitted the 
same year as his Patron Mr. T. Pond. 

I believe F. S. was the first to compose 
a Grammar in the Indian language. He 
also wrote for the natives, " The Christian 
Doctrine" and a Metrical Explanation o; 
the Mysteries of Faith- 

Another F, of this name, born 3 February, 
1698, was admitted 10 August, I7S0 ; died 
at Paris, 24 May, 1740. 

Stevenson, John.— All that i can learn 
of him is, that he had been Prefect of the 



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Sodalily at St. Omer, and left for England 
in the Spring of 1676. and died in England, 
13 January, 1692. 

Stevenson, or Stephenson, Thomas, 
born at Windleston, in the County of Dur- 
ham, After studying at Rheims and re- 
ceiving Piiesthood, was sent on the En- 
glish Mission, where he was betrayed by a 
false brother into the hands of the Pursui- 
vants, and lodged in the Tower of London. 
Here his suflFerings were most revolting to 
every feeling of humanity ; but this pri- 
soner of Christ improved them to his sane- 
tification, and most earnestly desired to suf- 
fer still more for his blessed Master, Ba- 
nished from the Realm, 21 June, 1585, he 
opened to F. Persons his ardent wish of 
being aggregated to the Society. He was 
admitted by this Father, as 1 find by his 
letter to the General Acquaviva, and sent 
to Brinn in Moravia. His subsequent ser- 
vices and merits obtained his enrollment 
amongst the Professed Fathers, at Prague, 
S June, 1597, Coming to Rome in the 
Spring of 1599, he was occasionally em- 
ployed by F. Persons as Secretary. Sub- 
sequently returning to England, he laboured 
as a Missionary for 30 years with exemplary 
zeal and charity. Retiring to Watten he 
died there, says F.N.Southwell (p. 768 
Biblioth.) 23 March, 1624, set. 72. Cora- 
pare F. More p. 19 with F.N.Southwell. 
See also bis life in Tanner. F . S. translated 
some of F. Person's works into Latin, as 
he tells the General in the above mentioned 
letter " Verti in Latinum sermonem libros 
aliquot R. P. Personii.'* He published 
also an English Catechism at St. Omer, 
1622, and is said to have left several MSS. 

Stillington, Thomas. — After studying 
Philosophy at Rheims, he was recommended 
to F. Agazzari, the Rector of the English 
College at Rome, by Dr. Allen, in these 
words " 3 Augusti 1580 Mitto Thomam 
Stillingtonum, qui pulcre callet Philoso- 
phiam et solus mittitur propter studium 
Theologi(B Scholastiece , juvenem nobiiem, 
castissimisque moribus prceditum-" He 
was of a Yorkshire Family and his real 
name was Oglethorpe. Ihis most pious 
Youth, at his most earnest supplication, 
was admitted into the Society, and was 
sent to Messina to makehis Noviceship. In 
a letter written thence to F. Owen 15 Sep- 
tember, 1616, he dwells with rapture on the 
happinesss of the Religious State, the saintly 
example of his Brethren, and the spirit of 
the dear Society, " utpote qui charitatem 
immensam alumnis suis communicat," 
How admirably does St. Ignatius exhibit 
this spirit in those golden Words. " I prefer 
the health of the least member in the House, 
above all the Treasures of the World'' ! ! I— 
-I his angelical Novice but Veteran in solid 
virtue, died 15 September, 1617. The 
Reader will be abundantly repaid by reading 
the account of him from p. 429 to 435 of 
lore's Hist, 



Stillington, William, died at Rome, 
2i November, 1685. 

Stone, Andrew, of Yorkshire : after 
serving the Mission eleven years, and at the 
age of 4)0, he joined the Society. He was 
living in his native County in 1655. 

Stone, Francis, died at St. Omer, 18 
December, 1751, set. 60, Rel. 38. 

Stone, Marmaduke, born at Dracot, in 
the County of Stafford, 28 November, 1749, 
entered St. Omer's College 4 September, 
1761 . At the age of 19 piety led him to the 
Novitiate. W hat is said of St. Vincent 
Ferrier may be applied to him; " a6 tne- 
unte oelate cor gessit senile,'* for from 
early life he oMscovered much steadiness of 
character, such unaffected virtue and sauvity 
of disposition, as marked his fitness for fu- 
ture government. After serving as Prefect 
in the Academy of Liege, he was chosen its 
President, in January, 1790. His, indeed, 
was painful pre-eminence during the rapid 
progress of the French Arms, and in the 
midst of warlike preparations and revolu- 
tionary movements. Obliged atlast to emi- 
grate, he reached 27 August, 1794 Stonyo 
hurst, an Asylum which Mr. Weld offered 
him for his community : and there, by his 
evennesss of temper, and his engaging spirit 
of conciliation nil nisi lene decet,*' and 
of humility, he succeeded in keeping and 
binding together discordant materials, and 
firmly establishing the present College.* 
His great merits and valuable services in- 
duced F. Gabriel Gruber, the General of 
the Society in Russia, to nominate him as 
the first Provincial of the restored English 
Province ; and he was declared such 2? 
May, 1803. He continued in possession of 
this dignity until 8 September, 1817. He 
was afterwards Minister for several years j 
but weakness of sight rendering hiin unfit 
for Collegiate oflSces, this Venerable Fatbeir 
retired to Lowe House in 1829, and there 
expired without a struggle, at half- pass 
eight of the Thursday morning, 21 August,. 

* The following note from Vol. V. to the History 
of Spain and Portugal, (written by Samue! Ast- 
ley Dunham, of Shinclifife Grange, near Durham^ 
Esq. L. L.B.) of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, 
will interest our Readers. The learned Historian^, 
after exposing the intrigues resorted to for the des- 
truction of the Jesuits, and stating, that Faction 
thus triumphed over Innocence, and Avarice over 
the interests of the Church, subjoins what follows. 
" The above account, one demanded by the sacred 
interests of Justice to vindicate a persecuted body 
of men, will not perhaps be read with much satisfac- 
tion by the (certain) Roman Catholics, the bitterest 
enemies of the Order. A Protestant Historian need 
not surely be biassed by the wretched squabbles of 
men, who, however they may differ among them- 
selves, ate not the less his Religious opponents. 
Whether the Older has not boen calumniated ; 
whether its members are always ambitious, or in- 
tolerant, or avaricious, or hypocritical, may soon be 
learned in the neighbourhood of Stonyhurst. If 
charity without ostentation, if piety without fanati- 
cism, if virtues, which shrink from the public gaze, 
are estimable among men, then have the excellent 
members of that Establishment deserved some bet- 
ter reward at the hands of a late Ministry, than that 
extinction which was absurdly made a condition of 
the Emancipation Bill. 



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1834. His venerable countenance in dealh 
exhibited the marks of perfect cahaness. 
On 25 he was buried at Windleshaw, wiih 
the respect due to tlie Patriarch of his bre- 
thren. May we not apply to hira the words 
of St. Maxirflus : — Sanctum perfi ctamque 
vitam mors Deo devota conclusit ? 

Inscription on F. Marmaduke Stone's 
Monument or Cenotaph, at Stonyliurst 
MemoriJB 
Marmaduci Stone, S. J. Sacerd. 
Viri pietate, virtute, modestia singular! 

Qui Hoc Collegium 
Tumultus Gallici irnpetuLeodiopulsum 
In novam Sedein deductum 
Servavit, 
Ann. XVin. rexit sancte. 
In Societatem Jesu 
Quam Junior prostratam luxerat 
Restitutam nomen reddidit lubens. 
Sociis in Anglia praefuit Ann. XIV 
Vixit Ann. LXXXV. 
Placide decessit XII Kal Sept. An 
M. DCCC.XXX. IV. 
Collegae 
Magna Viri optimi merita 
Posteris Lapide testata 
Voluere, 
R. I. P. 

This Venerable Patriarch of his Brethren, 
on the eve of death, reminds one of the 
Speech of the dying Indian Chief" Like a 
decayed tree I stand alone— the Friends of 
my youth, the companions of ray toils and 
dangers rest their heads on the bosom of 
our mother earth-^mysun is fast descend- 
ing. I feel it will soon be night with me— 
and that I am going to join them in the land 
of spirits. With uplifted hands 1 thank 
the Great Father for having spared me so 
long, to shew the young men the true path 
to honor and glory.'' 

His Spiritual Exercises were published 
by James Duffy at Dublin, in 1843, 12mo. 
pp. 181. 

Two of his brothers were worthy Mem- 
bers and Priests of Douay College, Benja- 
min and Thomas ; the latter died at Mosely, 
7 March, 1797 ; Benjamin died at Little 
Malvern, 19 June, 1819. He published a 
very brief Treatise in 1802, of the principal 
Articles of Chiistian Doctrine, pp. 15. 

Story, Richard, according to Dodd, p. 
137, Vol. 2, Church Hist., was a native of 
Gloucestershire ; leaving England in the 
beginning of Elizabeth's Reign, he repaired 
to Louvain. After assisting Dr. Allen in 
establishing the English College at Douay, 
i'n the year 1569, he embraced the pious In- 
stitute of the Society of Jesus. 

*STftALEN, Van Gisler ; born at Liege 
in 161 1 ; admitted at the age of 27 ; died at 
Watten7 June, 1685, after valuable services 
as a Temporal Coadjutor. 

Strange, Richard, of Northumber- 
land ; entered the Novitiate at Watten at 
the age of 20, and professed 15 years later, 
viz. 21 November, 1G46. After teaching 
Humanities at St. Omer for some time, he 
was sent to the English Mission, where he 
labored many years, " multoruin bono ct 
solatia." Recalled from England to be 

3 B 



Rector of Ghent, in 16T1, at the end of his 
triennial government, he was declared Pro- 
vincial, and the Annual Letters which he 
subscribed in that capacity, for the years 
1674-5-6 must always be read with interest , 
On discharging the burthen of office, he en- 
joyed tranquillity for the remainder of his 
days, dying at St, Omer, 7 April, 1682, 
set, 71. He has left us the valuable life of 
St. Thomas, Bishop of Hereford," 8vo. 
Ghent, 1674, pp. 333, dedicated to the Duke 
of Tuscany. I think he had published at 
Antwerp, in 1673, an English Translation 
of F. J. Eusebius Nieremburgh's Treatise, 
" De adoratione in Spiritu et Veritate,'* 
The Translation fills 481 pages, besides an 
address of 14 pages, to the courteous rea- 
der. He had prepared some other works, 
says F. N. Southwell, p. 720, Bibl. ; but 
I believe they never went to press. Was 
he the translator from the Letter of F. Ce- 
parius of " The Life of Blessed Aloysius 
Gonraga." 12iro, Paris 1627, dedicated to 
Mary, Countess of Buckingham ? 

Strange, Thomas. The only son and 
heir to a considerable Patrimony. Be- 
coming acquainted with F. John Gerard, a 
prisoner then in the Clink, he wa.s moved to 
renounce every thing for the love of Christ. 
For nearly two years he had the happiness 
of living with F. Henry Garnett, before he 
went to Sf, Andrews' at Rome, to make 
his vows of Religion. Returning a Mis- 
sionary, he was apprehended in Warwick- 
shire, conveyed to the l ower of London, 
and most inhumanly tortured. After a long 
solitary confinement, he was banished, bro- 
ken in health and constitution, and ditd at 
Ghent sexagenario major, 13 November, 
1639. See p. 383 More ; also Tanner. 

Strickland, William ; son of Thomas 
Strickland, Esq. by his wife, Mary Scroop. 
Born at Sizergh, near Kendal, 28 October, 
1731, and renounced the Family Estate, in 
favour of his brother Charles. 

On 7 September, 1748, William entered 
the Novitiate at Watlen; 13 June, 1756, 
was ordained Priest, at Liege. After teach- 
ing Philosophy, he was sent to the Alnwick 
Mission, where his moderation, urbanity 
and talents secured the esteem and respect of 
all. This good Father, was admitted to 
the profession of the Four Vows, 2 February, 
1766. At the suppression of the Society, 
he was highly instrumental by his advice 
and influence in keeping up the Academy at 
Liege, and after the death of F. John 
Howard, 16 October, 1783, he consented at 
last to become its 2nd President, He was 
the ablest, as well as the fittest man in the 
province, to fill that situation ; and well 
might F. John Thorpe say, in a letter to a 
friend which 1 have seen, " Mr. Strickland 
will merit a statue on earth, besides there- 
ward he may expect in Heaven, if he can 
raise up ihe ruins and disjointed fragments 
into a solid structure. Licgo is happy in 
having him to succeed Mr. Howard." The 



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truth is, that hitherto there had not existed 
an effectual concurrence and coalition of 
his brethren ; some were indisposed to the 
necessary co-operation, and regular dis- 
cipline and subordination. By degrees he 
succeeded in making the crooked ways 
straight, and the rough ways plain ; and so 
successful was his system, that 15 July, 
1787, the Academy nunobered 113 sholars. 
Having achieved this important work, he 
installed that meekest of men, the Rev. 
Marmaduke Stone, for his successor, in 
January, 1790, and fixed his own residence 
In London, as ihe Procurator of his Brethren. 
In the flourishing establishment of this com- 
munity, at Stonyhurst, he had the consola- 
tion of witnessing with his own eyes, that 
it was one of the first houses of education 
in Europe. This opinion of the College 
was also entertained and pronounced by his 
friend, the late Duke of Northumberland, in 
two of his Grace's letters now before me, 
dated Northumberland House, 2 May, 1803 
—24 May, 1804. After a long life of use- 
fulness, this eminent and patriarchal Gen- 
Jeman died at No. 1 1, Poland Street, Lon- 
don, 23 April, 1819, and was buried at St. 
Pancras, where his assistant and friend, 
Rev. Edward Scott, thus inscribed a stone 
to his memory. 

Hie jacet 
Gulielmus Strickland 
de Sizergh, S. J. 
Sacerdos ; Familid nobilis 
Doctrind prcestans, morum Sanctitate 
Ac VitcB Simplicitate admirabilis . 
Vixit anms 88 et placidd morte 
Obdormivit in Domino die 23 
Jprilis, 1819. 
R, L P, 
For this benevolent Father, the French 
Clergy, as a testimony of their gratitude to 
his memory, had a solemn Dirge performed 
at their own expence in their public Chapel, 
London. 

It is very little known that the Pilt 
Administration was desirous of employing 
English Jesuits at Buenos Ayres, and that 
Sir John Borlase Warren made application 
to the General of the Society, at St. Peters- 
burgh, for that purpose. The General F. 
Gabriel Gruber dying, 6 April, 1805, the 
business was taken up by his Vicar General 
Anthony Lustyg, who by letter dated Peters- 
burgh, 15 May, 1805, desired F. W. Strick- 
land to wait on the said Sir J. B. Warren. 
He did so on the month following. From 
the interview it transpired that the Govern- 
raent had concerted a plan to attack Buenos 
Ayres— that the co-operation of the Indians 
was essential— that having ascertained that 
the respect and esteem in which the Indians 
held the Jesuits continued unabated, this 
eircumstance might consequently be turned 
to advantage; that English Jesuits in the 
opinion of the Government would 6e of 
more utility, than those of any other nation. 
The plan however was postponed, on account 



of the precarious situation of Public afi'airs. 
Mr. Pitt's death 23 January, 1806, occa- 
sioned a change of ministry. Beresford 
took Buenos Ayies in the May following : 
and Whitelock's disastrous failure ensued 
in July the ensuing year, 

SuDDLE, or SiDDLE, Chaules. — This good 
Father was born in Lancashire in June, 
1790 : admitted at Walten, when in Priest's 
Orders, 27 October, (according to the Pro- 
vincial's Book) 1729 : was Professed 2 
February, 1740 For many years was 
Chaplain at Yarura, where he died 23 April, 
1770 of Consumption. I have been told, 
that his real name was Hodgkinson, and 
that he was entered an alumnus of the Eng- 
glish College at Rome in 1722. 

Saddle, Richard, Of Lancashire, was 
certainly adraitied in 1634. 

SuDDLE, William, born in Lancashire : 
died of a decline at St. Oraer 7 April, 1648, 
eet. 4, Rel. 9. *' Vir innocentice singularis, 
et omnibus, quas in Religioso quisquam 
requiratf virtutibus excuUus ad exem- 
plum.'' 

Sutton, Andrew, of Suff'olk : admitted 
at the age of 52, Professed 5 August, 1641, 
died in England, 7 March, 1673. 

Sutton, William, born at Burton-upon- 
Trent. F. John Gerard, in his autobiogra- 
phy mentions him thus " pro Greeds hakiu- 
mus PrcBceptorem bonum ac pium Sacer^ 
dotem, Dominum Gulielmum Suttonum, 
qui sub €0 titulo publice vixit in domo 
nostra incognitiis , qui postea mortuus est 
in Soc. Jesu,mari Hispanico submersus, 
dum eo obedientta amandartur.^' He was 
drowned near Alicant in 1390. He was 
brother to that noble Martyr, Rev. Robert 
Sutton, a Secular Priest, who was butchered 
alive at Clerkenwell, 5 Oct. 1588, formerly 
Rector of Lutterworth. His thumb and 
finger were entire as F. Gerard mentions. 
Mentioning certain Relicks that had been 
presented to him, he thus expresses himself 
in his Autobiography Index P. Roberti 
Suttoni Martyris simul cum pollice serva- 
tus est incorruptus, mira Dei providentict^ 
cum brachium avibus call expositam per 
annum fuisset, quod postea d Catholicis 
furtim sublatum totnm quidem nudatum 
est inventum, et nihil prorsus, in iota 
brachis et pecfore, pelleet came cooper- 
tum prceter pollicem et indicem manHs 
qui sacro oleo inuncti fuerant , et adhuc 
magis sacrati redditi ex contactu venera- 
bilis Sacramenti. Ergo /rater illius, 
pius etiam Sacerdos pollicem sibi servavit 
Indicem mihi dedit. The thumb was in 
the possession of F. W\ Strickland, as I 
find by his letter 7 April, 1806, to F. M. 
Stone. 

Another brother, John, was Socius to F. 
Gerard for some time, and to F.Garnelt, for 
several years. 

Sweet, John, born in Devonshire : en- 
tered the English College at Rome in 1603 
to finish his higher studies. After his pro- 



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motion to the Fiiesihood, viz. 1608, he ap- 
pears to have joined the Society at Naples. 
After supplying for some time as Peniten- 
tiary in the Vatican Church, he was ordered 
to the English Mission, where saj'-s F. N. 
Southwell, (p. 507, Biblioth.) *'M^^7^s eva- 
sit operarius et multorum in Christo fill- 
orum parens.'^ But at length he was ar- 
rested at Exeter, in the House of Mr. Alex- 
ander Snelgrove, * on his way to Mr. Risdon's 
of Bableigh, in the North of Devon, 14 No- 
vember, 1621. On the Priest's person were 
found several articles, viz. 

1. " One masse book entitled Ex Missali 
Romano ordo missse. 

2. One letter from John Risdon; men- 
tioning the sending of his bag unto him, 
wherein the superstitious and massing 
trinckets were. 

3. One note of some contribucions from 
certayne persons. 

4. Six other smale papers. 

5. One redd boxe with certayne wafer- 
cakes therein of diverse impressions and 
figures, some round, some square." 

In the leather bag before-mentioned found 
in his chamber, were, 

1. " One little Manuscript of questions 
and answers concernynge the Piotestant 
Religeon. 

2. One book of the author and substance 
of the Protestant Church. 

3. One Lattyn bible. 

4. One other book with a blacke forrell in- 
tituled Breviarium Romanum ex decrelo 
saerosancti Consilii Tridontini restitutum : 
two pictures in the same booke, the one of 
the cyrcumcysioii of Criste, the other of 
Crisle crucyfyed. 

3. One other little book intituled the love 
of the Soule. 

Q, One ohallys of silver parcell guilt, and a 
erncyfixe on the foote thereof, with a lit- 
tle round plate of silver parcell guilt, to 
carry the whafer cake. 

7. One white boxe of bone to keep a picture 
in. 

5. One red purse of cloth of gould and 
herein a casket with three little boxes of 
oyie therein." 

The Mayor at that time, Walter Boroughs, 
on acquainting the Privy Council with his 
Prize, was commanded by Writ of the 29th 
November, 1621, to deliver the said John 
Sweet, with the many superstitious things 
found about him and in his lodging," unto 
two King's Messengers, John Poulter, and 
Leonard Joyner, purposely sent down. The 
Receipt of the said Messengers is dated 11 
December that year. That this Rev. Fa- 
ther remained in prison until the accession 
of Charles 1st. (March 1625) I think is 
more than probable ; for in 1624, he and F. 
Fisher held a Conference with certain Pro- 
testant Divines, as I collect from p. 38, vol. 

I find from the Register of St. Lawrence's Pa- 
rish, Exon, thai in May, 1606, this Snelgrove mar- 
ried Alice Risdya. 



II. 1st Edition of Wood's Athenaj Oxon ; 
but especially from F. Clare's Appendix to 
his 2nd dialogue of his able work, entitled 
" The Converted Jew." 

In a weak state of health F. Sweet reached 
the College of St, Omer, and was there 
called to a life exempt from labour and suf- 
fering, 26 February, 1632. 

F. Southwell is manifestly wrong as to 
his age ; he was probably between 50 and 60 
years of age at the time of his death. 

We have from the pen of F. S. a 4to. vol. 
printed at St. Omer, in 1617, " The Dis- 
covery of the Dalmatian Apostate^ M.^An- 
thony de Dominis, and his Books. This 
unfortunate man was recommended by Padre 
Paolo to K. James I. and had reached Eng- 
land in 1616. 

SwEETNAM, John, (alias Nicholson) of 
Northamptonshire, joined the Society in 
Portugal in 1606, and was esteemed for his 
learning and talents lor the Pulpit. For 
some time he laboured in the English Mis- 
sion ; but was finally apprehended and sent 
into banishment. He died at Loretto, in 
the office of Penitentiary, 4 November, 
1622, set. 42. He published under the ini- 
tials I, S. 

The Progress of St. Mary Magdalene 
into Paradise." Svo. St. Omer, 1618. 

" The Paradise of Pleasure in the LitU" 
nies of Loretto." St. Omer, 1620. 

From the Spanish he translated the trea- 
tise of Anthony Molina, the Carthusian 
" On Mental Prayer" St. Omer, 1617, and 
in the same year " The Exhortation to 
Spiritual Perfection, with a dialogue on 
Contrition, by Francis Arias, S. J." I 
suspect that he was the translator of F. Tur- 
selinus' History of Loretto, a ]2rao vol. of 
540 pp. printed in 160S. It is said that the 
holy House was removed to Dalmatia on^9 
May, 1291, and thence to Loretto. 

SwiNBURN, or SwiNBORN, JoiiN, ( verc 
Savage) admitted in 1680, after finishing 
Rhetorick at St. Omer's College, I find him 
serving the Lancashire Mission early in the 
last century, and where, I believe, he 
finished his mortal course, 11 September, 
1716, set. 56. 

SwiNBURN, Simeon, was entered an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1580. The date of his admission into the 
Society I have not been able to discover, 
but from the Annual Letters of 1638, I learn 
that he had died 11 Nov. that year Octo- 
genario major," in the ColJege of the Holy 
Apostles. He had long been engaged in the 
English Mission, and in very troublesome 
times — " Placidissime concessit naturce, 
magna apud omnes ob pietatem virtutum- 
que aliarum c.zen,pla, sui relict d venera- 
tions." 

SwiNBURN, William, of the Family at 
Capheaton, Northumberland, admitted at 
the ago of 29: professed 15 February, lC54, 
was Rector at Watlcn from 1662 to 1666 : 
died in England 18 August, 1669. 



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Sylvester, TiiOMas — F. John Gerard, 
in his Auto-Biography, whilst in England, 
in mentioning some persons whom he sent 
abroad for their studies, says '* alii sunt 
Patres ex Societate, et nunc ut opinov, 
Vallisoleli manent in Seminario, viz, P. 
Sylvester et P. Clarus:' F. More p. 100, 
Hist. Prov. Angl. mentions his death in 
Spain as being " optato citiiis." That he 
was in Valladolid 12 April, 1615, is certain, 
as I find by a letter of F. Ant. Hoskins, to 
F. OweOo 

Talbert, Gilbert, see Grey Gilbert. 

Talbot, Adrian, born in Oxfordshire in 
1601 ; entered the Society at the age of 23, 
and was admitted to the profession of the 
Four Vows, 4 May, 1610. He had been 
Professor of Scripture and Hebrew before he 
was sent to the Mission, in 1638. He cer- 
tainly exercised his functions for some years 
in Lincolnshire. His death occurred 13 De- 
cember, 1653. 

His real name was Forfescue, and was 
son of Sir Francis Fortescue of Salden, 
Bucks, by his wife Grace Manners, niece to 
the Earl of Rutland, and brother to Mary, 
who married John Talbot, 10th Earl of 
Shrewsbury, ft seems, that he died at 
Hodington, County of Worcester, the resi- 
dence of his kinsmen, the Wintours, and 
was buried in Hodington Parish Church, 
where a brass plate bears this Inscription. 
STA 
Viator, et in 
Demortui vestigiis 
Viam Immortalitatis 
Lege ; 

Hicjacel D. Adrianus Fortescutus exil- 
lustri Fortescutorem de Salden familia orj« 
undus, cui satis non eratnobilitate sanguinis 
insigniri, nisi partura a raajoribus splendorera 
majore virtutis suse luce decoraret. Adol- 
escens igitur, parentibus, amicis, patriae 
valedixit ; & maximam Europse partem, 
studio discendi peragrans, Belage, Gallice, 
Italice, Latine Greece, Hebraice sic loqui 
didicit, ut et doceret. Nequemodolinguara 
excoluit, sed mentem etiam liberalibus Ar- 
tibus, et sublimi Philosophise etTheologiae 
scienti^, necnon Sacrarum Litterarum my- 
steriis expolivit. E6 demum perfectionis 
evasit ut rerum caducarum illecebras procul 
abjiciens, Mundo, Carni Sibiqueipse bellum 
indixerit, quo (Christoduce ac auspice) feli- 
citer defunctus, meruit esse in prselio Victor, 
in pace Martyr, utrobique Coelis Arisque 
dignus. Tandem annos eraensus quinqua. 
ginta duos, Virtute magis quara vEtate 
pleaus, postquam vitam labore, mortem 
patientia vicerat, Obiit XHI Decembris. 
anno salutis MDCLHI terris corpus, Superis 
animam, Posteris omnibus Aritse Fidei, et 
ardentissimi Deum erga Proxiraumque 
Amoris, Christianae denique militiae relin- 
quens monumentum 

Nunc abi Lector 

Etquopoteris gressus adiEternitatis 



bravium 
Praseuntera seqaere. 

The brass plate, detached from its origi- 
nal situation in Hodington Church, was for 
many years to be seen at the Talbot Public 
House in the Village. Of late years it was 
restored; but it is still in a loose unfastened 
state in the Chancel. 

Talbot, John, born 22 August, 1737 : 
admitted at the age of 20 : was sent early 
to the Lancashire Mission : died at Rixlon 
19 May, 1801. 

Talbot, Thomas, of Lancashire ; was 
entered an alumnus of the English College 
at Rome in 1591 ; seven years later became 
a Novice, though in Priests' orders. After 
acting as Penitentiary at Loretto for some 
time, he was appointed first Rector and 
Master of Novices, at St. John's Louvain, 
and removed with them to Liege, in 1614. 

Sent to the English Mission, this Master 
ol a Spiritual Life, by his authority and 
example conducted many souls in the Sci- 
ence of the Saints. At the age of 80, and in 
the year 1652, the venerable man rested from 
all his earthly labors. 

Another F. Thomas Talbot, was born 
in Lancashire 21 July, 1717 ; admitted at 
Watten, 7 September, 1735, professed 2 
February, 1753. From being Prefect of 
Studies, at St. Omer, he became Chaplain 
at Odstock, near Salisbury, then at Canford, 
in Dorsetshire, but for many yeais before 
his death \^as fixed in London, where he 
died 12 October, 1799. 

Talbot, WiLLrAM, of Lancashire ; joined 
the Society at the age of 22 ; was professed 
30 January, 1633, I suspect this must be 
the person described in a letter of intelli- 
gence from Spa. 17 August, 1654, p. 528, vol. 
2, State Papers of John Thurloe, " There 
are Spyes sent into England ; one of them 
is a Jesuite called Talbot, a well sett man 
of middling stature, full-faced, brownish 
hayre, a faire complexion." This w^orthy 
Father died in England, 12 Maj^ 1660. 

TANCi?.ED, Charles, I think of the family 
at Borough Bridge, in Yorkshire, was ad- 
mitted at Naples, in February, 1584. In a 
letter dated Madrid. 2 July, 1589, he an- 
nounces to F. Martial his safe arrival in 
that city, and that his destination is Alcala, 
where he is to complete his Theological 
Studies. On 25 November, 1692, he was 
appointed Minister to F. Francis Peralta, 
the first Rector of the Seminary at Seville. 
Don Martine de Padilla, the Governor of 
Castille, selected him some time after for 
his Confessor. To the regret of all who 
knew him this Rev. Father, in the flower 
of his age, for he was but 35, was hurried to 
an untimely srave at Valladolid 5 July, 
1599 : See p. 290 F. More's Hist. 

Tancred, Richard, F. More, p. 24, 
Hist, informs us, that he was admitted at the 
age of 22, and having finished his studies at 
Olmulz and Prague, and been Professor of 



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lh« Greek Language for two years at Vienna, 
died at Padua, 13 September, 1596. 

•Tartar, Dominic, born 12 May, 1728 : 
admitted in 1750. Alter the suppression of 
the Society, he lived with the Rev. F. John 
Panting, who left him at bis death, in 1783, 
an annuity of ^£'20. Dying at Wardour, 16 
August, 1800, he was buried at Tisbury, 

Tartar, William, born 2 April, 1732 : 
admitted 1760 ; died at Blandecque, 12 Sep- 
tember, 1792. 

Tasbuugii, Henry, son of John Tas- 
burgh, of Bodney, Esq., by his 2nd wife 
Elizabeth (Darreil) was Superior of his 
Brethren in Lancashire, A. D. 1701 ; he 
died an old man 6 February, 1718, at New- 
House, in Ince. This house he erected in 
conjunction with F, Albert Babthorpa, 
about the year 1701, with a view of keeping 
a School there ; but this design was never 
carried into effect. 

N. B, A large Stone Chapel was erected 
during the reign of James II. at Formby, 
but the setting in of the Revolution pre- 
vented its being opened for DivineWorship. 

Tasburgh, Richard, 2nc] son of Richard 
Tasburgh, of Flixton, Esq., by his wife, 
Mary Heneage ; admitted in 1710. I meet 
with him at Flixton. in 1728. F. Tasburgh 
was professed 2 Feb. 1730. Previous to his 
solemn Profession, he made a renunciation 
of property, that must rank him amongst 
the most efficient benefactors to the English 
Province. He died 22 January, 1735, set. 

Tasburgh, Thomas, joined the Society 
7 September, 1691 ; made a spiritual Coad- 
jutor 21 March, 1704; was stationed in 
London during the early part of the last 
century ; but for some before his death, 
resided in Dublin, in great repute for Sanc- 
tity.— He died in that city, 5 July, N. S. 
1727, St. 54), and I think was buried at St. 
Michan's. In a letter of the Rev. Mr. Mey. 
ler, dated S 7une, 1832, from 79, Marl- 
borough-street, Dublin, that worthy gentle- 
man says, *' Many miracles were per- 
formed at the tomb of this Father,; and its 
remains were in consequence almost carried 
away by the people. Tliere is at present, 
in the possession of one of the Priests in 
Dublin, a finger belonging to this very holy 
man, the application of which has been fol- 
lowed by many extraordinary and rapid cures j 
SQme of them to my own knowledge. 

Tate, John, brother of FF. Thomas and 
.Joseph Tate. He was born in Yorkshire, 
in July, 1777, and is connected with Stony- 
hurst, by having received his education 
there. On 2Q October, 1805, he became 
assistant to F. Kemper, in the Wigan Mis- 
sion. In 1821 he was transferred to Lydi- 
ate ; but at the end of ten years, weakness 
of mind and body rendered his removal in- 
dispensable, and he quitted the Mission in 
the middle of September, 1841, in order to 
retire amongst his friends at Low Hall, viear 
Ickley, in Yorshire. There he died 21 

2 c. 



April, 1842, and was buried in the Church- 
yard at Ickley. 

Tate, Thomas, younger brother to FF. 
Joseph and John Tate ; born at Appleton in 
Yorkshire. After finishing Humanities and 
Philosophy with credit, at Stonyhurst, he 
entered the Society in 1810. Full of its holy 
spirit, he was sent to the laborious Mission 
of Wigan, at Michaelmas, 1811, wheie, by 
his obliging and frank disposition, he made 
himself generally esteemed and respected. 
To the sick and needy he was a kind, at- 
tentive, and unpretending friend : his time, 
his means, and influence were devoted to 
their succour and consolation. On Monday, 
29 March, 1819, tet. ..,Soc. he died of a 
typhus Fever, contracted in attending a 
poor woman of his congregation. In the 
Preston Chronicle his death was thus an- 
nounced : — "On Monday last, of a typhus 
fever, which he contracted whilst visiting 
the poor and necessitous sick, in the dis< 
charge of his pastoral duties, the Rev, Tho- 
mas Tate, one of the Clergymen of the old 
Catholic Chapel, Wigan, His zeal in the 
discharge of his pastoral duties, was so 
ardent as to induce him to expose his life 
to danger, and to sacrifice it also, for the 
good of the flock committed to his care j he 
was likewise of such an amiable disposition 
as to be loved and respected by his friends 
and acquaintance, and sincerely regretted 
by all who knew him, 

Tate, Joseph, a man of great merit. He 
was born at Appleton, County of York, (as 
his Father's Prayer Book testifies) 30 De- 
cember, 1771 : was educated chiefly at 
Liege, but finished his Theologies at Stony- 
hurst, where he also taught the Belles Let- 
tres. His Missionary career commenced at 
Preston, 15 August, 1803. After serving 
there during 5 years, he was transferied to 
Wigan for three years ; thence transplanted 
to the Missions of Ince, Pontefract and Sto- 
nyhurst. In November, 1812, he was ap- 
pointed to Bristol. When he had labored 
there indefatigably for nine years, he was 
commissioned by Bp. Collingridge to arrange 
a very delicate and complicated business at 
Falmouth; for the successful settlement of 
which, his Lordship, 20 March, 1822, 
offered him " the just tribute of ray sincere 
thanks." Considering himself supplanted in 
his absence, Mr. T. quitted the W. district 
altogether. Proceeding to Rome, he en- 
tered the Novitiate of St. Andrew's, 12 Feb- 
ruary, 1823, where he edified all who saw 
him by his singular fervor and docility. 
Soon after his return to England in the au- 
tumn of 1824, he received directions to form 
a New Mission at Yarmouth, where he 
arrived 12 October that year. He found 
the town with as few disciples as St. Paul 
met at Ephesus, 19 -<4cfs, but the number 
rapidly multiplied through his indefatigable 
zeal and charily. On 15 August, 1833, he 
was deservedly promoted to the rank of a 
Professed Father. Obedience removing him 



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to Bury St. Edmund's, he reached that Mis- 
sion 5 May, 1835, where he opened the pre- 
sent comnaodious Chapel, 14 Dec. 1837. 
Thence he went to Norwich ; but 14 Sep- 
tember, 1841, 4was removed to Tunbridge 
Wells. His Stay there was short ; and his 
infirmities increasing upon him, he reached, 
16 November following, the Seminary at 
Stonyhurst, where he was summoned 16 
July, 1842, to receive the reward of his vir- 
tues. 

I know of nothing ihat my Rev. Friend 
committed to the Press, but a well-timed 
Discourse delivered in St. Wilfrid's Chapel, 
Preston, Whil-Monday, 25 May, 1807, on 
the Religious and Political Principles of 
Catholics. The matter is good ; but the 
stile is too quaint and undignified to please 
the admirers of Pulpit Oratory. 

Tatlock, Henry, of Lancashire, son of 
Thomas and Helen Tatlock : began his No- 
Ticeship at Watten in 1729 ; was professed 2 
February, 1740 ; for about 24 years was 
Chaplain to Sir Francis Anderton ; died at 
his brother's house, Tatlock, four ralles 
from Liverpool, on the North Road, 17 Au- 
gust, 1771, set. 62. 

*Taylor, Edward. — This Temporal 
Coadjutor died at Liege, 21 March, 1712, 
Bet. 47, Rel. 15. 

Taylor, John, (alias Valentine Upsal) 
born in Yorkshire A. D. 1598, and at the 
age of 21 joined the Society. — He died in 
the College of St.^Thomas of Canterbury, 20 
September, 1675, set. 78 : The Annual Let- 
ters of that year, make him an Octogena- 
rian. For the cause of Christ he had en- 
dured 14 years imprisonment, and had re- 
ceived sentence of death. For nearly half a 
century he had been engaged in the English 
Mission. Vir Magni Zeli ac pietalis et 
veteranuslChristi Miles," 

Taylor", Thomas, at the age of 28, en- 
tered the Order 29 July, 1702 ob. A . D. 
1726. 

Tempest, Charles, son of Stephen Tem- 
pest, of Broughton, by his wife Elizabeth 
Ferraor, was born in Yorkshire, 30 April, 
1699 ; at the age of 25 entered the Noviti- 
ate ; was Prefect at St. Omer for some 
time ; after being made a Spiritual Coad- 
jutor in 1730, became Chaplain at Clytha, 
ia Monmouthshire ; but died at Chiswick, 
28 July, 1768. 

Tempest, John, third son, I am told, of 
Stephen Tempest, of Broughton, Esq. by his 
■wife Anne, only daughter of Henry Scroope, 
of Danby, Esq. ; born 16 June, 1694 : en- 
tered the Novitiate S. J. at Watten, 7 Sep- 
tember, 1712, and was Professed, according 
to the English Provincial's book, at Con- 
stantinople, 26 February, 1730. F- John 
Thorpe, in a letter from Rome, dated 17 
December, 1757, says, " F, Tempest, during 
his travels through Greece, kept a regular 
correspondence with a Venetian Gentleman, 
to whom he gave a constant account of his 
journey, &c. The copies or rough drafts, all 



written in Latin, came into the hands of P. 
Leslie, upon whose revisal they would pro- 
bably have been published, bad the author 
lived longer to adjust certain particulars 
and make the collection complete.— I have 
one of them by me : the language is neat : 
the observations concise and enteitaining. I 
have been told that he travelled to the Holy 
Land with Lady Gerard, a great benefac- 
tress to our English Province." 

In p. 81 of Whitaker's Hist, of Craven, 
a letter to his Father from Salonica, 4 
March, 1731, has been published. — gee 
also 1 Vol, of Nichols' Illustrations of the 
Literary History of the 18th Century. Oa 
his return from his travels he lived as Chap- 
lain to Robert James, 8 th Lord Petre, a 
Nobleman of distinguished taste and ele- 
gance, F. Tempest died 22 February, O.S. 
1737, and his illustrious Patron inscribed 
on his grave-stone in West-Horndon Church, 
the following Epitaph. 

D. o. M. 
Hie in pace Ec. Cath. 
Depositus est Johannes Tempest, Stephani 
Tempest Armigeri de Broughton, Provinciae 

Eborfilius: Doctrina et Suavitate 
Morum omnibus dilectus, Vix. Ann. XLlV 
Thorndon obiit XXII. Feb. A. D. MDCCXXXVII 
Rob, Jacobus Petre, Baro de Wrlttle, Amico 
Cariss, moerens monumentum Pes. 
Tempest, Nicholas. From the Provin- 
cial Returns of 165ll, and 1679, it is certain, 
that he was a native of Lancashire. For 
about 16 years he had been cultivating the 
vineyard in his own Country, when the- 
public mind was panic-struck and maddened 
byOates' Conspiracy, with all it absurdi- 
ties and atrocities. F. T. was apprehen- 
ded and thrown into jail. His delicate 
constitution could not stand the shock, and 
death hastened, as a friend, to set him at li- 
berty from further suffering, 26 February, 
1679, £et.48, Soc. 27, Prof. 9. See the 
" Brevis Relatio." 

Tempest, Robert. The Annual Letters 
of 1640, shew that this model of Religious 
Obedience and Humility, for nearly 30 years 
was the " Vinctus Ckristi." He died in 
Hampshire, (I think at Tichburne) 18 July, 
1640, " prope octoqenarius conditusque 
est in sepulchro nondum ah hcereticis pro- 
fanato " St. James's, I suppose, near Win- 
chester.'' 

Terill, Anthony, (alias Bonvill) born 
ia Dorsetshire, in 1623 ; was entered an 
alumnus of the English College at Rome, jn 
1640 ; and after finishing the course of Phi- 
losophy and Theology, and receiving the or- 
der of Priesthood, he entered the Novitiate 
of St. Andrews, in that City, 20 June, 
1647. For some years he served the office 
of Penitentiary at Loretto ; was thence cal- 
led to Florence, to fill the chair of Professor 
of Philosophy — was afterwards sent to Par- 
ma, where besides lecturing on the same 
Science, he taught Scholastic Divinity for 
four years. His valuable services were then 
obtained for Liege College, where he directed 
the studies, and taught Theology and Ma- 



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thematics. The Florus Auglo- Bravaricus, 
p. 50, says that he was consulted far and 
near, as an oracle of learning. From 
1671, till July, 1674, he was Rector of Liege 
College. Returning from Rome, as we 
learn from the Annual Letters, he died at 
Liege 11 October, 1676. " In cujus obilu 
hoc accidit singulare, quod cum continuo 
fere a multis retro annis Scrupulorum 
anxietaiibus agitaretur, toto tamen morbi 
tempore, liset sibi prcBsentissimus esset, 
pacatissime se haberet, et mortem intrc' 
pidus expectaret." He published 

1. " Conclusiones Philosophicce," 12rao. 
Parma, 1657, 

2. '* Problema Malhematico — Philoso- 
phicumtripartitum," 12mo. Farrao, 1660, 

3. *' Fundamentum tolius Theologies 
Moralist sett Tract atus de Conscientid 
ProbabilV a most useful work, 4to. Liege, 
166S,pp. 613, dedicatedto LordCastleraaine. 

Terret, Thomas, of Yorkshire: born 
in 1615: admitted at the age of 21 . Pro- 
fessed 8 December, 1652. I think he died 
at St. Omer, 4 October, 1655. 

Terrett, Peter, is said to have died 
in England, in the month of June, 1655. 
I suspect Peter and Thomas were brothers 
of the family ofBapthorpe, and assumed 
the name of Tyrrhwit, 

Tesimond, Oswald, alias Greenrvay, 
alias Philip Beaumont, was born in Nor- 
thumberland: was received as an Alumnus 
in the English College at Rome, in 1580 : 
and 13 April, 15S4, joined the Society. 
After teaching Philosophy at Messina and 
Palermo, he went to the Seminary at Madrid, 
which he quitted in November, 1597 ; was 
ordered to the English Mission — reached 
Gravesend 9 March, 1598, and was placed 
under F, Oldcorne nearly 8 years. Our 
readers must know how he came to be accu- 
sed of being an Accessary in the Gunpowder 
Plot. Fortunately he escaped in a victual- 
ling boat to Calais— survived that event 30 
years, dying, at Naples, in 1635, set. 71. 
Rel. 51. Prof.30. See F. More's Hist, p; 
336. N.B. He was the friend of the cele- 
brated F. Julius Mancinelli. 

This Reverend Father translated into 
Italian, the greater part of F. John Gerard's 
English treatise on the Gunpowder Plot, 
and enriched it with additional information, 
However, he appears dissatisfied with the 
Defence attempted of him by F. Gerard, 
for consulting F. Henry Garnett on the 
subject : for he leaves out the Defence alto- 
gether in his translation. 

We may here cursorily observe, that as 
F, Gerard had been so instrumental iu dis- 
covering and denouncing the Bye Conspiracy 
to the Privy Council in the summer of 1603. 
(See Dr. Lingard's Eng. His. Vol, V; 4to. 
p. 12) it is highly improbable that he would 
have neglected his duty of denouncing the 
Gunpowder Conspiracy, had he been con- 
scious of it. 

* THELveALL; Joseph, This English 



Youth entered the Novitiate at Watten, 26 
November, 1750 ; but died before he could 
finish it, according to the Necrology, 3 Au- 
gust : but according to the Provincial's 
Book, 30 July, 1752, set. 21. 

*Thelwall, W alter, born 15 August, 
1723: admitted 21 August, 1747. As a 
carpenter this Temporal Coadjutor made 
himself very useful. He lived to the advan- 
ced age of 85 ; dying I April, 1808, at 
Wardour, where he was Sacristan, his re- 
mains were deposited at Tisbury. 

*Thierry, Nicholas, of Liege : joined 
the Society 22 October, 1707 : died in his 
native city, 28 August, 1763, ffit. 86. 

Thomas, Richard. Admitted into the 
Order in 1704 : served the Maryland Mis- 
sion for some time; but died in England, 
16 January, 1735, set. 50. 

Thompson, Charles, born in London, A. 
1607, admitted at the aga of 19 ; Professed 
19 September, 1641, and six years later 
began his Missionary Career, After the 
year 1655 I lose sight of him. 

Another Charles Thompson, born in 
Maryland, 7 September, 1746, admitted at 
the age of 20. This Reverend Father was 
moved from Gifford's hall to replace F. S. 
Gage at Bury St. Edmunds,* in 1790. He 
died at Bristol, where he had retired from 
bad health, 6 April, 1795, 

Thompson, Francis, alias Yates, " made 
his vows at Louvain, 9 November, 1608" 
as I find in the letter of his master of No- 
vices, F, Thomas Talbot. 

Thomson, John, I findtwo of this name. 

The Obituary vaguely states that one died 
either 8 September. 1636, or 12 October, 
1637. From the Annual Letters of those 
years I can glean no satisfactory informa- 
tion : but I believe the fact to be, that this 
is no other thanF. John Gerard, who died 
27 July, 1637. 

TKe other is said to have died at St. Omer, 
23 November, 1688. 

Thompson, RrcHARD. This Father was 
at Seville, in May, 1605. 

Thompson, Thomas, of Kent. Educated 
at St. Omer, thence, in 1632, proceeded to 
the Novitiate of Watten ; was Professed in 
1649. In the Annual Letters of 1672, he 
is described as " not us in AngliA Concio- 
nator qui in Sacello Oratoris Gallici mag- 
no populi concur su per Adventum patrio 
sermone dixit," At theexplosion ofOates' 
conspiracy, he reached Dunkirk, where he 
died 21 October, 1680. The Annual Letters 
of that year report of him what follows 
" Vir erat valde pius, humilis totus ex 
charitatCy el erga egenos miserosque tene- 
ritatef actus ; suavem cum proximo agendi 
modum habebat, el energiam secularem in 
formandis ad pietatem animabus. Con. 

♦ From the Annunl Letters of 1690, It is eviden'^ 
that before the Revolution, the English Jesuits had 
here " sacellum publicum valde celebre et scholam 
satis frequentcm" About 18 young Gentlemen 
were regular Pensioners in the tiouse : and some of 
the Townspeople attended the School CUsses. 



cionatoris, in quo excellebat dicendi 
genere, partes scepius,felici semper sue- 
cessu, sustinuit Lnndini in Templis ad 
usum Regiorum Gallia et Hispanice Ora- 
torum accomodatis, Mira illi Facnndia, 
et voxerat suavissima, quam, Tuba instar 
argentecB, inflectens pro voto, magnos ani- 
morum motus in Auditcribus concitabat 
gnavus el felix operariics.^' 

•Thorne, Thomas, admitted 12 November 
1682, ael. 37. This Lay-brother died at 
Watten, 26 December, 1691. 

Thornton, John, born in 1675; joined 
the Society in 1693 : was Professed 19 
IVJarchj 1720. This venerable Missionary 
resided at Haggerston for many years, and 
I believe died there, 19 March, 1759, at. 
84. He was Rector of his Brethren in the 
Residence of St. John the Evangelist, from 
1736, to 1749. 

Thornton, James, admitted in 1700. 
Died at Ghent, 2 December, 1752, set. 72. 

Thornton, Robert. All that I can 
glean of him is, that he was admitted 1 1 
September, 1678, and that he died in the 
Staffordshire Mission, 14 February, 1704, 
St. 47. 

Thorold, Alexander, He was one of 
the 14 who died in the year 1681. This 
event took place 21 May ; but he is not 
particularized in the Annual Letters of that 
year. 

Thorold, Edmund, Imeet with two Fa- 
thers of this name. 

The Senior, after finishing Humanities at 
St. Omer, began his Noviceship at Watten, 
in September, 1677. At the breaking out 
of the Revolution he was living in St. Wini- 
fred's Residence, and whilst travelling with 
William Christopher, a lay. brother, both 
were arrested, and though it was the depth 
of Winter, were stript of their clothes, and 
subjected to the strictest search. Though 
nothing was found upon them that could sub- 
stantiate any charge, they were still thrown 
into jail : at the end of nine months, as no 
one appeared against thenj, they were set at 
liberty. This good Father occurs superior 
of his Brethren in the said residence, in 
1701-4. He died 7 November, 1715, set. 58. 

The Junior, sometimes called Epipha- 
nius, sometimes Turner, was admitted 20 
January, 1687. Professed 21 March, 1704, 
For many years served the Mission of 
Market Raisin, in Lincolnshire, where I 
believe he died, 16 December, 1732. aet. 63. 

Thorold, George, of a wealthy Fa- 
mily ; admitted 1 February, 1691. Pro- 
fessed 19 June, 1709. Soon after his ordi- 
nations, he went to Maryland, and labored 
in that Mission upwards of 40 years. He 
was Superior of that Mission from March, 
1725, to June, 1784 : and died there 15 No- 
vember, 1742, aged 69. 

Thorpe, Andrew, born 7 March, 1741 ; 
admitted in 1758 ; was Confessor for a time 
to the Theresian Nuns, at Antwerp : Suc- 
ceeded F. Robert Petre, at Dunkenhalgh, in 



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Lancashire, in 1766, and died there, 9 Jan- 
uary, 1799. 

Thorpe Ignatius, see Stafford. 

Thorpe, John, born in the Parish of Ha- 
lifax, in Yorkshire, 21 October, 1726. In 
early youth he was placed under a Mr. Occle- 
shaigh, who had been a pupil of the Jesuits - 
and actually kept a school near St. Helens. 
After distinguishing himself as a Student in 
St. Omer's College, he entered the Novitiate 
at Watten, 7 September, 1747, and at its 
termination, proceeded to Liege to apply to 
Philosophy ; but I find in a letter written 
many years after, viz. 9 September, 1788, 
from Rome, to his friend Henry. 8th Lord 
Arundell, how his studies were then inter- 
rupted. The following extract will interest 
the reader. 

" Your Lordship is truly kind in offering 
your service in regard of the little property 
(in Yorkshire) which threw me under the 
penal Laws many years ago. That affair, 
after giving me much trouble, and great ex- 
pence, was brought to a composition for a 
valuable consideration ; a release was given 
by my Protestant Relation to myTitle, and 
accordingly, to avoid other difficulties, I 
sold it, with the advice of Mr. Carteret, who 
was then Provincial, and of ray other friends. 
During the debate my Counsel often tried 
to induce roe to make any, even the least 
appearance of conforming, and they would 
make it suffice to secure my property. If 
there had been any such thing, as the Doc- 
trine ofDispensations, Mental Reservations, 
&c. as was believed by many in England, it 
is surprising how easy any Oath would have 
been made for me by those Lawyers, who 
were indeed my friends, and wished me to 
keep what was ray right. Even before the 
Court, where I appeared in person, the Jus- 
tices seemed willing to be satisfied with any, 
even an equivocal sign of conformity, I 
was not there known to be a Jesuit : but was 
ejected and indicted for being a Papist, and 
having been educated in a Popish College, 
Everyone was very civil, and shewed concern 
for me : but at the same time declared,that it 
was not in their power to mitigate the rigor 
of the law : but if I would have recourse to 
the Chancellor, he could do it, as there 
were then no troubles in the Kingdom. I 
was then a Student of Philosophy, and was 
unwilling to be detained from it : had nei- 
ther money, leisure, or courage to enter 
upon a suit in Chancery. 1 wished to be at 
Liege again, and would not do as the Law- 
yers would have me ; withdrew from them, 
and got proposals made to my Protestant 
Relation, who agreed, as I mentioned above : 
and I sold all that I got to a Parson*, not 

*The Articles of Agreement for the sale of the 
property to the Reverend Robert Harrison, of Hip- 
perholme, in the parish of Halifax, bear date 8 
April, 1752: and the conveyance was to be comple- 
ted by Whitsuntide of the year following. The 
property is described as " all that messuages, dwel- 
ling- house or Tenement situate and being at Stead- 
Syke in the parish of Halifax ; also those parcels of 



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withoutsorae regret for a little Chapel. Had 
I foreseen what has since happened to me, I 
might in the disposal of the profits have made 
some better provision for myself than I then 
couid think to be any ways necessary. Not to 
trouble your Lordship at any other time 
with this tale, I will conclude it with what 
may make you laugh. The Attorney who 
drew up the Deeds of sale, was pleased in 
them.to stile me ^Gentleman, against which 
denomination I objected ; my forefathers, 
being no where called otherwise than Yeo- 
men : though they had lived upon the spot 
durlDg 15 generations, had more possessions, 
and upon other accounts were more reputable 
thanlwas. All that is very good, replied the 
Attorney; but do you not see what sort of 
deeds they have left you—what old writings, 
and some in strange Latin, and on such very 
small scraps of Parchment, in comparison 
of what is now in use ? besides, Sir, you are 
no tradesman, and have no profession ; I 
must therefore in the deeds, as they are now 
made, call you a Gentleman. And so he 
would, notwithstanding all that I could say 
to the contrary. 1 have since often laughed 
at the Attorney's reasons for the denomina- 
tion which he gave me in parchment. When 
this vexatious business was concluded, 
the young Confessor of the faith re- 
turned to Liege, and at the end of the 
Philosophical course, was directed to teach 
flumanities at St. Omer. This he continued 
to do with the highest reputation, until his 
Superiors ordered him to Rome to finish his 
Theological studies. He reached the Eternal 
City, 20 November, 1756. After some time 
he was appointed Minister of the English 
College there ; and before his nomination 
to the office of a Penitentiary in St. Peter's, 
he lectured on Philosophy and moral Divi- 
nity. When the Order was dissolved by 
Pope Clement XIV. F. Thorpe retired to an 
Establishment for Ecclesiastics in Rome, 
called St. Carlo al Corso. A personal Re- 
sidence in the Capital of the Christian 
world, and the Seat of the Arts, had special 
charms for this good Father and highly ac- 
complished Scholar. As a man of taste, 
judgment, and information, he had few 
superiors. Of the choicest specimens of 
sculpture and painting, he was a diligent 
Collector, as Wardour*, Ince, Lullworth, 

• In a letter to Henry, 8th Lord Arundell. dated 
3^8 August, 1771, this disinterested Commissioner 
confidently asserts " Your Lordship does not ac- 
tually, in the whole, pay one quarter of the prices 
for pictures which any Nobleman in England must 
have otherwise given for them." In many subse- 
quent letters he expresses his conviction, that but a 
part of his Purchases, sent to Wardour, would in- 
demnify hij Lordship for all expences if he was ever 
disposed to part with ' them—that many of the 
articles, even here (Rome) will vet procure double 
the sum. besides plentifully defraying all charges of 
sending them back again. 



land called the Jug, the Two Jackron Crofts, the 
Little Close, the rough Close, the Tenter Croft, the 
Brow, the Hanson Close, and Stubbin and the Stead : 
also two dwoiliug houses or Cottages situate at Hove 
Edge: also another , Tenement called Rutton Row: 

3 J). 



Stonyhurst, &c, can abundantly testify : 
and his industry in rescuing evidences, and 
providing materials for illustrating the His- 
tory of his Times, and more particularly the 
History of the English Province of the So- 
ciety, must entitle his memory to grateful 
recollection. From reading his numerous 
Letters, I always rise charmed and delighted 
with his solid and practical wisdom: his 
discrimination, his high sense of honor, his 
candour, and tender piety. No Jesuit could 
be fuller of the spirit of the Institute of St. 
Ignatius, or love the Society of Jesus with 
more filial affection To the Academy of 
Liege he professed the warmest attachment. 
In writing to a Reverend Confrere, he says 
' This House ought to be, in my opinion, the 
favourite object of us all." By his will, 
dated 10 October, 1791, he left it his Heir 
at Law: previously he had proved himself 
to be its munificent Benefactor. For some 
time before his death, F. Thorpe suffered 
severely from Strangury, and Thursday, 
12 April, 1792, set. 68, and in the 27th year 
after his Solemn Profession in Religion, he 
surrendered his pious soul to God. In a 
letter of F. Thomas More (the Ex-Provin- 
cial) to Henry, 8th Lord Arundell, 1 read 
" The death of our good friend at Rome, 
was, I hear, the death of the Saints. Ii was 
a happy release to him ; but will he felt by 
many to whom he was so useful on many 
occasions,'' — Oh may his mantle of piety 
and good taste, remain as a heir-loom in the 
English Province. 

F. James Connell thus announced to the 
above-mentioned Lord Arundell, the death 
of his friend. 

Rome, 14 April, 1792. 

My Lord, 

You will now receive a letter from Mr. 
Thorpe : he ordered me to send it to your 
Lordship by the first post after his death, 
lhat happened Thursday night, the 12th 
inst. at half after eight. I have lost in him 
the best and most tender friend I had in this 
world. I believe your Lordship's loss is 
not much less. He died, as he had lived, a 
Saint — as a man penetrated with the truths 
of Religion — animated and consoled by his 
consciousness of having strictly adhered to, 
and faithfully practised what it commanded. 
I never quitted his room, and was almost 
perpetually by his bed side. I was never 
able to observe to his very last breath, the 
least sign of perturbation or anxiety in his 
countenance. He has, as a last proof of his 
friendship for me, appointed roe his Execu- 
tor. His heir general, is his dear Academy 
at Liege, whither, after paying his legacies, 
funeral expences, &c. I am to transmit what 



also a Cottage and Smithy at Sleade Syke. The 
consideration to be paid was £707.! The Articles 
were sealed and delivered in the presence of John 
Harrison and James Waterhouse. Before the Exe. 
cution of the Conveyance, John Thorpe was not 
to be at Liberty tocut down any timberorunderwood 
or to dig for or take away any Stone or mineral 
whatsoever. 



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he possessed. He has been this morning 
interred, as he ordered, in the Church 
of the Casa Professa, or the Gesu." The 
inclosed note to his Lordship, we copy from 
the original: 

My Dear Lord, 
Whenever the annexed Paper shall be 
returned to your Lordship, my intent and 
desire is, that it may repeat and ratify 
every sentiment of respect and gratitude, 
that I have ever professed, and what I 
have always affectionately retained and 
cherished lor your Lordship. Until death, 
ever mindful of your Lordship's great 
kindness for me, I hope, through the in- 
finite mercy of Almighty God, to carry 
these sentiments to a stale of happiness, 
where what is good can never cease. I am, 
my dear Lord, 

Your Lordship's 
Most obliged and most unworthy servant, 

J. Thorpe." 
It is certain that F. Thorpe was con- 
cerned in publishing some of the Posthu- 
mous works of his bosom friend Abbe F. 
D. Azais*, to whom he was Executor, and 
who breathed his last in the Jesuits' Col- 
lege, of Naples, 80 January, 1766. 

•Throgmorton, Edward, — This An- 
gelical youth, was recommended to F. Al- 
phonsus Agazari, the Rector of the English 
College at Rome, by the Rev. Ralph Sher- 
win (the Martyr,) by letter 1 August, 1580, 
and by Dr. Allen, by letter 25 September, 
the same year. He was admitted as Coa- 
victer into the College 5 November, ensu- 
ing. By nature and grace he seemed form- 
ed for the greatest things : but after a 
short time Almighty God saw fit to call 
him to his recompence and his Repose, 
viz. 18 November. 1582, after making the 
Simple Vows of the Society. 

His life was written in Latin by F. Ro- 
bert Southwell, according to some ; but 
more probably by F. Agazari. A part 
of this pious youth's Diary may be seen in 
" Practical method of performing the 
Ordinary actions of a Religious LifCj 
with fervour of spirit.'* London, 1718. 

Throgmorton, John, born in Wales in 
1612, admitted into the Order at the age of 
21, and Professed 30 September, 1650. 
The Provincial return of 1655, proves that 
he was then employed in the Welsh Mission, 

♦He wasasative of Laderne, a small town near 
Carcassone, and son of a Magistrate of the place. 
For some time the Abbe was a member of the So- 
cietyof Jesus. This excellent scholar, from a love of 
truth and equity, wrote in defence of that much-in- 
jured Body. His first work was "Le Redacteur, Ve- 
ridique" privately printed at Avignon, Whilst living 
at Rome he confuted and exposed the falsehood and 
malignity of its adversaries in " Compte rendu au 
Puhlique. Episode d la grande Piece. Letires d' 
an Gascon Nouveaux Principes. Cosmopolite. 
Reflexions imparliales. Toutse dira . II est terns 
de parler, Lettres Ultra tnontaines." the seventh 
of which was written at Naples. The Reverend 
William Aston published at Liege the Cosmopolite, 
" Compte Rendu, et Lettres UHramontaines. 



but from the absence of documents 1 cannot 
trace him onwards, 

*Thuiller, Jean Joseph. — ^This French 
Lay-brother was born 26 September. 1717 : 
admitted at VVatten 24 April, 1748, died at 
Liege 25 March, 1768. 

Thunder, Henry, of Kent, was admitted 
an Alumnus of the English College at Rome 
in 1596 : three years later joined the Society, 
For 37 years he filled the painful but impor- 
tant office of Prefect at St. Omer, cum 
eximiis virtutum exempUs ;" and there he 
closed a meritorious life by the death of a 
Saint 12 September, 1638, aet. 66. Under 
his iflitials he published at Paris, 1634, a 
Treatise intitled The enriching of the 
Soul, or how to offer one's self daily to 
God by acts of Virtue." 

Thursley, Charles. This magnani- 
mous Father, after suffering imprisonment 
for the Faith, both at York and London, 
died of a fever in the College of St. Ignatius, 
on the last day of the year 1639, aged 67, 
Rel. 33. " Vtilem in Anglidse prcestiterat 
operarium, omnibusque apud quos vixerat, 
ob singularem animi candorem eximie 
gratum. Erat enim laboris patiens : pie- 
talemque mirabili morum suavitate condi 
€bat."—An. Lit. 1640. 

TicHBouRNE, HenrV, of Salisbury : en- 
rolled himself among the children of St. 
Ignatius 11 October, 1587. To the rising 
seminary at Seville, he rendered essential 
service as Minister, Confessor and Profes- 
sor of Moral Divinity. F. More, p. 290, 
fixes his death in 1606, and adds " magnd 
cum opinione Sanctitatis et Doctrince." 

TicHBouRNE, ( HermenngildJJ ohn, en- 
tered the Society 21 October, 1700, set. 
21 ; Professed 2 February, 1717. He was 
at Ghent ia 1728. "sine officio" and died 
there 5 May, 1748. 

Another F. John Tichbourne, stiled the 
Junior, was born 26 March, 1694: admit- 
ted in 1712 ; Professed 18 years later : 
was rector of Watten from 1741 to 1745 : 
thence went to the Southend Mission ; died 
in London 20 April, 1772. 

Tichborne, Michael, (for so he spells 
his name in a letter 20 October, 1726) born 
26 January, 1692, at the age of 20 entered 
the Novitiate ; Professed 2 February, 1729. 
This worthy Father served Hooton for a 
time: then was stationed at Bi inn, where 
he died most piously 4 July, 1751, N.cS, 
aet. 59. " Mr. Tichborne was buried at 
Brinn, on the Gospel side," as I read in the 
Account Book, Col. S. Aloysii, 

*TicKLE, William, born 25 July, 1717 ; 
admitted in 1748 : died at Liege in 1787. 

Tidder, or TuDDER, Edward, born in 
Suffolk in 1630 : joined the Society in 1652 j 
was Procurator of the Province in 16B7, and 
as such with the Provincial, took up his 
quarters in the Savoy College* 24 May ^ 

*For an account of the Savoy Hospital, so called 
from its original founder Peter, Earl of Savoy see p. 
445, of Wever's Fun. Mon. 



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that year. I believe that F, Lewis Sa- 
bran was chosen his successor as Procu- 
rator of the Province in 1693 : but the date 
of F. T's death I have failed to discover. 

TiLNEY, /rhis English Fa- 
ther is mentioned in Letters written in 
1614. 

TocKETTS, Alexius, of Flanders, joined 
the Society 1 October, 1689 : Professed 2 
February, 1707. In the Provincial's Re- 
port of the year, 1710, 1 read " In Residen- 
t'lA, S, Johannis Evangelistce P. Alexius 
Tocketts, qui nuUibi Jixam requiem habet 
in continuis semper labor ibus." I believe 
he passed by the name of Young. Fifteen 
years later I meet with him in the city of 
Durham, where I suspect, he died. This 
event took place 31 January, 1731 set 66. 

Todd, Henry, admitted in 1687: for 
many years served the Welsh Mission. In 
the Annual Letters of 1710, 1 find him thus 
honourably particularized " ResidenlcB S. 
Winefridos Superior P. Tod, impiyer 
prorsus in Munere et Missione obeundis ; 
et in curd atque intelligent id Temporaliam 
videlur omnium in Missione Primus.'' 
He died on Christmas day, 1712, set. 46. 

*ToENS, James, joined the Society 20 
April, 1672. This Flemish lay-brother lived 
but three years after his entrance into Re- 
ligion, dying at Watten, 2 December, 1675, 
set. 37, but meriting the character of " Vir 
prudens, indiistrius , obediens ac pius," 

*ToNA, Arnold. I meet with three 
members of this name. 

The 1st died at Watten, 3 August, 1638, 
" qui etsi pvimum Probalionis annum 
nondum explevisset, ita se tamen in varii 
MarthcB muneribus, optimd sua indole et 
eximid docilitate probaverat, ul plurima 
deipso meritb sperarentur." 

The 2nd was admitted 31 May, 1671 : 
and died at St. Oraer, 21 November, 1699, 
eet. 68. 

A third is said to have died at Ghent, 7 
September, 1734; but I cannot find the date 
of his admission ; and his death is not in- 
serted in the Necrology. 

TouLOTT, Matthew. This Belgian Fa- 
ther joined the Society at Watten, 20 Sep- 
tember, 1660 ; was formed into a Spiritual 
Coadjutor 2 February, 1670 : for some time 
was Prefect at St. Omer : then filled the 
oflSce of Minister successively at Watten, 
GJient and St. Omer. The last eight 
months of his life were employed in the 
London Mission, where he died 27 July 
1677. The Annual Letters signed by 
the Venerable Provincial, F. Thomas 
Harcourt, describes' him as " Vir om,nino 
j)ius, sedulus, industrius, ac nulli par- 
cens labori, vet Obedientice vel Salutis 
proximorum causa.'* 

Towns, Andrew. — The Necrology 
places his death, which happened in En- 
gland, in the year 1664, Perhaps there is 
an error in the date — certainly no such 
member is specified in the Provincial return 
of 1655. 



I find in the Provincial list of 1642, a F. 
John Town. — He was of Warwickshire, 
was then 63 years old, had been Mission- 
ary 26 j^ears, and 13 in the Society, and 
was then Confessor to the students in St. 
Omer's College. 

Tresham, Thomas.— All that I can learn 
of him, is the date of his death 18 Octo- 
ber, 1671. 

Trevanion, Charles, of Cornwall j 
often passed by the name of Drummond : 
joined the Novices at Watten 7 September, 
1685 ; was Professed in 1703, whilst em- 
ployed in the College of St Ignatius. Se- 
veral years later I find him at Marshgate, 
near Richmond, Surry, where I suspect he 
ended his mortal course, 28 March, N, S^ 
1737, set. 70. 

TuisTRAM, Joseph, born at Ince, Blundell, 
2 June, 1766: arrived at Liege 27 July, 
1781 : ordained Priest there 9 April, 1791, 
and in September following, proceeded to 
the Spinkhill Mission. On 10 October, 
1803, this saintly Priest consecrated himself 
to God in the Society, and nine years later 
was named to the office of Procurator in 
London. At Christmas 1819, he became 
Rector of Stonyhurst. On 9 May, 1829, 
he quitted that College to take charge of the 
Worcester Mission, and here his experience 
in a spiritual life, his solid virtue and zea- 
lous exertions could not fail to produce 
abundant fruit and to endear him to all, on 
his departure he received the following ad- 
dresses ; — 

TO THE 

REV. JOSEPH TRISTRAM. 
We, the undersigned Catholics of 
Worcester and its Vicinity, in taking leave 
of you, beg permission to do so with the ex- 
pression of our sincere regret, respect, and 
gratitude. 

Your daily and unremitting attention to 
the performance of your laborious and im- 
portant duties; the earnestness and anxiety; 
the total devoteduess with which you have 
laboured to promote the good of all under 
your care, have been seen and felt by us 
all ; for which we beg to offer this slight 
aclcnowledgraent of our grateful feelings. 

We have observed, and not without just 
pride, the edifying and Christian conduct, 
which notwithstanding the prevailing pre- 
judices, have gathered aroundyouthe respect 
of every one, however much opposed to our 
Holy Religion. 

We wish to express to you our sense, not 
of the friendship only, but of the kindly and 
feeling manner which has characterized 
your intercourse with us, and which in losing, 
we appreciate more sensibly than ever. 

We hope and pray that Almighty God 
will spare you long to cherish the recollec- 
tion of the time you have lived among us, 
and ultimately to increase your future 
reward. 

With full hearts we bid you farewell ; 
but we trust that absence and distance will 



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not hinder our remaining in your daily re- 
membrance. 

Worcester, May 29th, 1937. 

On 31 May, J 837, he retired from Missi- 
onary fatigue, to New Hall Convent, as 
successor to F. Angur, He had to endure 
much bodily suffering; but no one could 
approach him without departing edified with 
his sweet patience and cheerful resignation. 
On Good- Friday, April 14, 1843, he united 
his death with that of his Saviour, and we 
trust in the same day deserved to be transla- 
ted to Paradise. On 19 he was honourably 
interred, in the Convent Burying Ground. 
R. I. R 

*Tryson, orTBYoH, James, of Dunkirk: 
admitted in September, 1728 : died three 
three years later at St. Omer, viz. 30 
November, 1731. set. 24. 

♦Tucker, Robert, born January, 
1720: entered the Society la 1752: after 
much usseful service, this good Lay-brother 
died at Liege in December, 1790, 

* TuNSTALL, Thomas,— This model of 
religious Scholastics died at Liege 4 Octo- 
ber, 1640, set. 28. Soc. 7. " Studebat 
Theologice, eratque in Mathematicis ap- 
primeversatus, sed mdla re clarior apud 
SUDS quam egregiis virtuiibus." The an- 
nual Letters of 1640, proceed in extolling 
his meekness of manners, his engaging 
charity— his exemplary spirit of self-denial 
and of obedience. 

TuNSTALi/, William, of Yorkshire : born 
in 1611, entered the Society at the age of 
20 : Professed 25 November, 1646. This 
able and zealous Father, retiring from the 
Mission, died at Watten 25 March, 1681. 

*TuRBEViLLE, Gregory, born in W ales: 
at the age of 22 joined the Order, and for 
many years rendered valuable service as a 
Lay-brolher. He died in Maryland, 6 Feb- 
ruary, 1684, ffit. 67. 

NfB. Turbeville Francis, is said to 
have been rector of St. Omer's College from 
1721 to 1722. But query ? if not a mistak e, 
for 

Turbeville, John. — This eminent man 
passed by the' name of Fermor, by which 
name he wentfiom Sti Omer's to Watten 
to commence his Noviceship 7 September, 
1683: was Professed in 1704, I believe 
whilst serving the Lancashire Mission at 
Lady Anderton's at Lostock. The Annual 
Letters of 1710 shew, that he was then em- 
ployed in the Yorkshire Mission. He was 
certainly Provincial from 20 May, 1725, 
until 23 November, 1731, when he was de- 
clared Rector of his brethren in the College 
of St. Ignatius, and died in that office U 
November, 1736, set. 72. 

*Turbeville,Thomas. This Temporal 
Coadjutor, enrolled himself under the Stan- 
dard of St. Ignatius 24 December, 1702, 
and died at Ghent 7 September, 1734, set. 
57. 

Turner, Anthony, born I imagine at 
Dalby Parva, in Leiceslershire, where his 



Father was Minister. By the zeal of F. 
Michael Alford. he was reconciled to the 
Catholic Church with his mother and elder 
brother Edward. Both Brothers were ad- 
mitted as Alumni into the English College 
at Rome, in the year 1650. At the age of 
24 he (Anthony) entered the Novitiate of 
Watten, and advanced in the sequel so ra- 
pidly in Piety and Learning, as to become 

thesaurus absconditus lilerarum et vir- 
tutum.'" For 18 years he laboured with 
apostolic charity in the residence of Sr. 
George, until Gates' Plot burst forth, 
with all its absurdities and horrors, and F. 
Turner was marked out as a victim of Per- 
jury. This most talented religious, and 
most innocent Father, as all the world now 
believes,* suffered martyrdom at Tyburn, 30 
June, 1679, N. S. set. 50. Soc. 26. Prof. 11 
See F. M. Tanner's Brevis Relatio— Flo- 
rus A nglo-Bavaricus — Challoner s Memoirs . 

Turner, Edward, elder brother of the 
above mentioned Anthony, but joined the 
Society a few years later, and was the faith- 
ful mirror of his zeal and virtues. Appre- 
hended in Leicestershire also for Oates' 
conspiracy, he was conveyed to a London 
Prison. It is sometimes asserted that he 
died 19.29 March, IQ81, in Newgate : hxxt 
Mr Gerard Dowdal his fellow prisoner, tes- 
tified that he had never been confined in 
Newgate; but that " on the aforesaid day 
he died in the Gate-house, in the Jailors* 
apartments, where he was sick, not able to 
digest his meat." This fact Mr. G, Dowdal 
stated to one of the Fathers S. J. 16 April, 
1691. 

Turner, Francis, of Oxfordshire : ad- 
mitted at the ape of 21. After serving the 
English Mission for 15 years, he died 23 
March, 1659, set. 45. 

Turner, John, of Oxfordshire, was ad= 
mitted at the age of 19, and Professed 20 
August, 1640: he died at Antwerp 10 Oo» 
tober, 168], set. 78. 

Another father of this name who was ad»^ 
mitted an Alumnus of the English College 
at Rome, in 1659 ; died in the College of 
the Immaculate Conception of the B. V. JVL 
6 March, 1672. " Fir magncB virtutis et 
prcBclaris animi dotibus ornatus.'' He 
often passed by the name of Thomas Weedon 
alias Turner^ 

Turner, Joseph, admitted 3 December, 
1632; formed a Spiritual Coadjutor tea 
years later; This lover of the brotheihood 
died at Liege 25 February, 1650, of a long 
and painful disease, which he endured with 
the most edifying patience and resignation. 

Turner, Peter. In the Catholicon of 
April, 1818, is given an interesting account 
of St. Chad's Relicks, written by this Fa- 
ther, I Oct. 1652. He had long been em- 
ployed in the Staffordshire Mission, and 
died there 27 May, 1655. 

•How true is the Remark of Cobbett. Time is 
sure to bn'ng revenge : he is sure to vindicate and 
avenge insulted and calumniated truth ! 



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Turner, Richard. His true name was 
Murphy, was born in England 23 July, 
1716; after studying Humanities at St. 
Omer, began his Noviceship at Watten in 
the 18th year of his age, and was Professed 
2 February, 1752 whilst serving the Mis- 
sion of Stella Hall, in Northumberland. 
For ihe last twenty years of his life this 
worthy Father resided at Salisbury. He 
was buried on the East side of the Cathedral 
Cloister of that city, with this inscription : — 
+ 

To the Memory of 
The Rev. Richard Turner, 
Who died on the 14th of May, 1794, 
Aged 77 years. 
R. I. P. 
Turner, Robert, admitted 9 October, 
1701 J Professed 2 February, 1719. For a 
time he was stationed at Hooton, then at 
Calilay, near Alnwick; but died in Sussex 
10 December, (N. S.) 1734, aged 56. 

Turner, Thomas, see John Turner^ 
(alias Weedon,) 

♦Turner, WiLLrAM.— This pious Scho- 
lastic died at Paris 26 August, 1712, set. 31, 
Soc. 9. 

TuRViLLE, Charles, I balieve of the fa- 
mily of Husband's Bosworth, in Leicester- 
shire, born 10 March, 1681 ; admitted in 
1700; Professed 3 February, 1718. For 
many years he was employed in the College 
of St. Ignatius, but was recalled from the 
Mission to be Rector of Ghent. He began 
that office 30 September, 1739. At the ex- 
piration of his triennial government, he re- 
moved to Watten, where he died beloved 
and regretted, 11 January, 1757. 

TuRviLLE, Henky, admitted 13 April, 
1693. The Annual Letters of 1705, shew 
that he was then Professor of Philosophy at 
Liege, and v/as distinguished for his zeal for 
souls. He died prematurely at Ghent, 25 
March, 1714, set. 40. 

•TuRPETT, AuGusTiN, died in England, 
12 December, 1637. 

Tyfpe, de Lambert, of Liege. This 
Father, eminent for piety, charity and zeal, 
usually resided in the English College, in 
his native city. In his old age, the vene- 
able man was paralyzed in his limbs. On 
22 May, 1672, about two hours after re- 
ceiving the holy Communion, his room 
caught fire, and he was stifled by the smoke, 
c6t. 70. Soc. 40. 

Tyrea, Joseph, born 12 May, 1734 ; 
joined the Society at the age of 19 ; was 
Professed in 1771. After serving Holywell 
for about 30 years, he was found dead in 
his bed, 22 December, 1798. 

Tyrer, Robert, of Lancashire ; admit- 
ted in 1816, made his scholastic vows 8 
September, 1818; taught Mathematics and 
natural Philosophy at Stonyhurst. In 1824 
was sent to Paris to study Theology ; but 
died at Dole 23 November, 1826, aet. 28. 

•Tyry, John Joseph. — This Lay-brother 
was born at Liege in 1615, was admitted at 
3 E. 



the age of 26 ; the last time I meet with him 
is in 1655. 

TwiSDEN, John, (alias Bonkam) died at 
Liege 4 June, 1651. 

*VANnENDORP, EvERARD. This FlemiEh 
Lay- brother died at Ghent 4 September, 
1721, set. 43. Rel. 17. 

*Vast, Andrew, died at Liege 2 Feb- 
ruary, 1712, set. 40, Rel. 12. 

Vaughan, Thomas, of a Family in Mon- 
mouthshire, that continued immoveable in 
the Faith amidst perpetual persecution. In 
the 27th year of his age, F. Thomas embra- 
ced the Institute of St. Ignatius ; and was 
admitted to the Profession of the Four solemn 
Vows, 3 December, 1643. For many years 
was employed in the English Mission. He 
died in the residence of St. John, 23 March, 
1675, set. 69, Rel. 42, Prof. 38, 

Vaughan. Richard, admitted at Watten, 
after studying Humanities at St. Omer, 7 
September, 1690 ; was Professed in the 
Order 2 February, 1708. For several years 
was Professor of Mathematics and of Hebrew 
at Liege, as also Procurator of the College. 
On 27 August, 1725, he was declared Rec- 
tor of the House of Probation at Ghent, and 
died in that office 13 October, 1727, aet. 53. 

Vaughan, William, entered the Noviti- 
ate 20 January, 1672 : died in England 9 
January, 16(^7, aet. 41. He is said to have 
been born in Brecknockshire, and to have 
been admitted into the English College at 
Rome, 1668. 

Vavassor,* Walter, of Yorkshire ; af- 
ter finishing the study of Rhetoric at St. 
Omer, entered Watten 7 September, 1681 : 
was formed a Spiritual Coadjutor 16 Feb- 
ruary, l692o After many years of Mission- 
ary labor, he died, I think at Preston, ac- 
cording to the Provincial's book 10 April, 
(the Necrology says 14 May,) 1740, set. 76. 

Vavassor, William. — In the Journal 
formerly kept at Watten, I read 

" 1665, March 20, came Sir John Warner, 
and Mr. Vavassor, to enter into the Society. 

March 24, Mr, Vavassor, now called 
Thwinge, admitted into the Society." 

This F, Vavassor is mentioned in Lord 
StaflTord's trial. It appears that he quitted 
England, where innocence had ceased to be 
a protection during the triumph of Oates' 
and Dugdale's perjuries, and died in peace 
at Nieuport, 23 April, 1683. 

*Verdeheval, Leonard. — This good 
Lay-brother was admitted 30 July, 1706: 
died at Ghent 15 November, 1730, aet. 47. 

♦Veusore, John. — This Lay-brother 
died at Watten 11 July, 1692. 

ViLLEBs, JoHH, of Lincolnshire : died in 

♦Several of the Vavassor Family distinguished 
themselves in the English College al Rome. Jo^n 
was thence sent to Rheims to teach Theology in 
1586 : but died there 6 July, 1591, xt 31. Thomas, 
after six years, or thereabouts, spent at Rome, was 
directed to collectmonies for the English community 
at Rheims, bat was murdered bv his guide near Uari 
In the Spring of 1587— A/<?nry left Rome forEngland, 
12 July, 1620, after which I lose sight of him, 



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Maryland in the year 1665, at the early age 
of 30. 

Vice, or Wick, John. We learn from 
p. 19 ofF. More's Hist, that this eminent 
Scholar and Professor had studied at Oxford 
— that after spending 25 years, most usefully 
in the Order, he departed this life at Ingol- 
stadt, in September, 1588, a month after his 
promotion to the rank of a Professed Father. 

ViscoNTi, Hermes Mary. — All that I 
can glean concerning this Member of the 
English Province, is contained in the fol- 
lowing extracts from the Journal formerly 
kept at Watten : 

"13th of October, 1680.— Ft Visconti 
came hither to make his third year. 

March 21, 1G81.— F. Viscooti exhorted. 

May 30. 1692.— F. Visconti, Rector of 
Gant, hither a horseback." 

And from a letter of F. John Warner, 
the Provincial, addressed from Ghent, to 
the General, F. Charles Noyelle, 2 April, 
1683, " Visum est plerisque, informa- 
tiones ad Gradum de P. Hermefe MariA 
Visconti anno preeterito missas, svfficere ; 
cum dilatafuerit ei Prof essio, quod illi 
CBtas deesset, quam explevit die 19 Martii 
preeterito, Habet testimonium bonum ab 
omnibus : et Virest dilectus Deo ei homi- 
nibus." 

I have seen a letter of this Father, bear- 
ing date 28 July, 1693, and signed " Hermes 
Visconti,'* 

The date of F. Visconti's decease I look 
for in vain. 

Vbanken, John, born 8 May, 1718 : 
admitted in 1740. 

♦Wadsworth, Thomas, of Lancashire. 
Admitted 7 September, 1712 ; died at Liege 
16 July, 1719, aetatis 26. 

Waites, James, of Yorkshire ; after 26 
years of indefatigable labor, chiefly I be- 
lieve in the College of St. Aloysius, where 
he was Rector for thrse years, this good Fa- 
ther was summoned by the Great Master of 
the vineyard, to receive his recompence, 14 
November, 1679, at. 69, Rel. 40, Prof. 22. 
The Annual Letters characterise him as 
*' Vir apprime religiosus, futurorum pro- 
vidus, ab amore paupertatis et animarum 
selo commendatissimus 

♦Wake, Charles. This highly gifted 
and most promising youth, finished his Hu- 
manities at Stonyhurst with singular eclat. 
His subsequent defension of the course of 
Philosophy, and the higher branches of 
Mathematics, added lustre to his fame. 
Whilst studying Theology, he was attacked 
with pulmonary disease, and to the regret 
of his Superiors and fellow Students, and of 
no one more than mi/sci/ (who from Syntax 
to Theology, was his fellow Student, and 
could appreciate his superiority of genius 
and religious spirit) was obliged to leave 
the College for Worksop, his native place, 
28 July, 1801, in the vain hope of bene- 
fiting his health. His death, I April, 1802, 



aged 19 years and 8 months, was truly 
precious in the sight of God, R, I. P.* 

Wakeman, .Joseph, youngest son of Ed- 
ward Wakeman, of Beckford, Esq., by his 
wife Mary, (Cotton) and brother of that 
truly injured character, Sir Geo. Wakeman, 
M. D. I find him Socius to the Provincial, 
F. James Blake, in the beginning of the 
last century. He died at Watten 8 De- 
cember, 1720, and often passed by the name 
of Edwards, 

Wakeman, Thomas, (vere Jeffery) 
joined the Society 7 September, 1721 ; he 
died at Watten 8 October, 1730, 1 think at 
Liege. 

Waldegkave, Francis, was long a Mis- 
sionary in the College of St. Aloysius, 
where, 1 take it, he died, 28 November, 
1701. In the Annual Letters of 1685, is an 
interesting account of his being restored to 
health, in little less than a miraculous man- 
ner. Another curious fact is there recorded 

Cum apparitor es cubiculum ips'us in- 
vasissent, avfugit Pater, relicta Pyxide 
sacrd et vusculo argenteo cum oleo infir- 
morumin loco cubiculi proputalo : explo- 
ratores tamen proinde ac cceci, nihil ho-* 
rum attigerunt ; eorum autem in fugd 
memor, custodies animarum in Purga- 
torio enixe Pater commendaverat„''^ 

During the national delirium occasioned 
by Gales' Plot— a Plot built upon the fabri- 
cation of abandoned wretches, committing 
the most revolting perjury — this Father 
was rescued from imminent danger by the 
manifest interposition of Heaven in his fa- 
vor. Three Bigots had conspired to way- 
lay him. He had gone on a visit of charity 
to a sick person, and they had planted 
themselves, one in each of the three road* 
by which he was necessarily to return that 
night. One of the Assassins perceiving the 

*A few days before he expired he wrote" currente 
calamo'' this' letter to his brother, William, theaia 
the East Indies. 

Frinsquaiu ad tt pervenarint haB ullimae roesr 
literae, timeo, Charissime Gulielme, ne longum mihi 
iter faciendum sit, in longinquam iliara regioaem, 
cujus nova regna ingreditur nunqnam reversuras 
viator. Tu quidem mare magnum trajecisti, et, re- 
lictis Europae finibus, novas Orientalis mundi attigisti 
plagas Eheu ! vero, quam parva, quam nullius plan* 
momenti, haec vitas tuas rationis mutatio videtur mi- 
hi morituro, dum magnam illam omnium rerum 
mutationem semel neque itemm subeundam fixis 
ociilis contemplor ! Ego quoque Orientem peto : 
nova enim mihi oritur telJus.occidit vetus haec, cujus 
nimium amatas delicias non sine dolore periturSs 
video. Mille autem Deo, Optimo, Maximo, gratias 
debeo atque quotidle reddo, quod de his mihi mini- 
ma sit cura, maxima vero de aeternitate solicitude. 
Quam sordet, Gulielme. hujus mundi figuramorienti 
Christiano ; cui in extremis diebus illuxit innata 
spes immortalitatis, maturiore firmata fide, et ar- 
dentissima perfecta charitate. — De his satis, super- 
que, garrulus enarravi, Tu solum obsecro has co- 
gitationes alta mente reconde, has evolve, has 
meditare utsalvusfias; etmoriturus ea experiaris 
quae experiuntur electi Dei. — Vive memor mortis, 
neque mei immemor: hoc ultimum jure peto; cum 
nee in vita, nec in morte immemor fui tui. Commen- 
do te, Charissime, Deo ac Sanctis ejus ; " sis inco- 
lumis, sis beatus." haec mea quotidiana oratio : Tu 
vicissim ora ftro me, etfirma fide tene, me et vivere 
et mori piissima tibi vinctum amicitia. 

C. W. 



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Father approaching at a slow pace on 
horseback unsuspicious of danger, raised 
his bludgeon with the full intention of fel- 
ling him to the ground ; but his arm re- 
mained powerless, and the raan without 
motion. The good Father proceeded quiet- 
ly and safely on his journey, uor would he 
have been apprised of his narrow escape, if 
the heretic himself had not divulged the 
fact, and ascribed his preservation to Jesu- 
itical witchcraft. 

Walkedon, John, sometimes called 
Walker, admitted 7 September, 1682 : died 
at St. Omer, I believe in the office of Pre- 
fect of the Sodality, 8 November, 1718, at. 
55. 

*Walker, George, of Lancashire. This 
Temporal Coadjutor, after rendering great 
services to his Brethren as Infirmarian and 
Apothecary, died of consumption at Liege, 
16 October, 1680, ael. 40, Rel. 15. 

Walker, John : his true name was 
Lambert : admitted into the English Col- 
lege at Rome, 6 October, 1625 ; he quitted 
for the English Mission, 17 April, 1631, 
and died therein within a twelvemonth : 
Magnain morbo edidit palientice ar- 
gumenta, summo delibutus gaudio, quod 
Societatis Candidatus moreretur," 

Walker, Joseph, born in Stalfordshire : 
admitted into the Order at the age of 20 ; 
ten years later was sent to the Mission, 
which he cultivated with zeal until his pious 
death, 3 March, 1673, set. 53. 

Walker, Peter, perhaps elder brother 
of Joseph W. was born in Staffordshire in 
1613 ; at the age of 22 joined the Society, 
In the return made by the Provincial in 
165 5, F. Peter is stated to have been then 
employed as a Missionary for the last eleven 
years. Probably he is the same as F; 
Peter Giiford. 

Walker Peter, see Westby P. 

Wallis, Frakcis, born in Surry, in 
1589 ; enrolled himself among the children 
•of St. Ignatius at the age of 24 ; was pro- 
fessed in the Order 19 April, 1626. F. 
John Clark, Rector of the College at Liege, 
in his letter to the General, 2 March, 1656, 
«tates that F. Wallis had died in the Col- 
l«ge, on the 28lh of the preceding month, 
after a short illness not exceeding three 
-days — that he had formerly been Rector of 
Liege CoUeg e — that on quilting office, he 
had proceeded to England, where he la- 
boured for some years, and twice suffered 
incarceration for the faith — that he had re- 
turned to Liege about 8 or 10 years back 
with a broken constitution, and incapable of 
holding any Collegiate office. He was a 
very humble raan, and remarkable for his 
filial devotion to the B, V. Mary. 

Wallis, John, died in England, 14 Feb- 
ruary, 1725. Q, Was he born in 1685, 
and admitted 4 February, 1713 ? 

Wai.mesley, Christopher, admitted 21 
July, 1708, set. 24. He was of the respect- 
able family of Westwood, in Lancashire, 



which has furnished many valuable mem- 
bers to religion. On 15 August, 1718, his 
merits obtained his promotion to the rank 
of a Professed Father. For several years 
hetaughtTheology at Liege College, where 
he died 22 October, 1734. 

Walmesley, Thomas, born in Lan- 
cashire, 19 July, 1716, O.S. After finish- 
ing the study of Rhetoric at St. Omer, 
reached Watten, 7 September, 1737, as 
a candidate of tlie Society ; was made a 
Spiritual Coadjutor in 1748. This venerable 
Missionary after serving Stockheld Park 
for sometime, retired to, and eventually died 
at Rixton, in his native county, 5 Jan- 
uary, 1792, eet. 76. 

Walmesley, William, born in Lan- 
cashire, 1 June, 1712, according to the Pro- 
vincial's Book ; admitted in 1732 j was 
formed a Spiritual Coadjutor eleven years 
after ; died at Worcester, 22 July, 1769, 
eet. 57. 

Walpole, Christopher, of Norfolk, and 
younger brother to F. Henry Walpole, the 
Martyr. This Alumnus of Cambridge 
University was converted by F. John 
Gerard. In 1592, the young Convert 
entered the English College at Rome : and 
in the course of the said year, viz., 27 Sep- 
tember, joined the Society. Sent into Spain, 
he died at Valladolid College, where he 
was Prefect of Spirit in the year 1606, at. 
38, as r*". Gerard says " cum dolore om» 
nium et detrimento patricB," See also p. 
220 of More's Hist, who gives him the cha- 
racter oi ^* spirilualium verum et sanctee 
Solitudinis perquatn studiosus.'' 

Walpole, Edward, of Norfolk, converted 
by his relative F. Henry Walpole the Mar- 
tyr ; he entered the English College at Rome, 
in 1590, to qualify himself by habits of vir- 
tue and solid learning, to become a fit in- 
strument for the conversion ofhis neighbours. 
For the love of Christ he sacrificed a patri- 
monial estate of at least ^£"800, value per 
annum in those days: joined the Society in 
1594 ; and for full 40 years most diligently 
cultivated the English Mission, where he 
died according to F. More, 5 March, 1637, 
eet. 78, Prof, 9. The Reader of this will ba 
gratified by turning to pages 218-19 of F. 
More's Hist. 

N.B. The brother of Edward, a pious 
layman and a special fjiend of F. John Ge- 
rard, was the Translator of the" Life of 
St. Ignatius''—'* the Dialogues of St, 
Gregory"—" Jerome Platus on the hap- 
piness of the Religious State'' and some 
others. 

Walpole, Henry, of Norfolk : joined 
the Society at Rome, 4 February, 1584. 
Embarking at Dunkirk for the English Mis- 
sion with his brother Thomas Cwho soon af- 
ter conformed, and I believe was a military 
man) after a voyage of at least ten days, 
landed at Flamboro' Head, 4 December, 
1593: was arrested that very night at Kil- 
1am, and conveyed to York. On 25 Febru- 



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ary following, was escorted to London, and 
thrown into the Tower. In his Cell he was 
put to the torture 14 different times, and 
lost the use of his fingers. F. Gerard within 
three years later was conducted a prisoner 
into the very same cell, and describes his 
sense of comfort and joy to occupy a cham- 
ber that was consecrated by the virtues and 
sufferings of tliis great and devout Martyr, 
To detail the instances of F. Walpole's 
glowing zeal, and seraphic love — to enume- 
rate his hardships and privations — and to 
descant on the brutal barbarity of his tor- 
mentors, would require a volume. — We re- 
fer our readers to the 5th Book of More's 
Hist.— to his life by F. Matthias Tanner, 
and to the Memoirs of Missionary Priests 
by Dr. Challoner. Remanded to York, this 
Christian Hero suffered death on Monday 
17 April, 1595, set. 36, Soc. 11. 

F. Gerard says of him " In P. Campiani 
laudem egregia carmina Anglice tunc Lai- 
cus conscripsit, in quibus ostendit se et 
alios mullos illius Martyris sanguine esse 
calefactos, et ad consilia Chrisli sequenda 
aminatos." This Poem consisted of 4 son- 
nets. The first began thus. 

** Why doe I use my Paper ^ Ink and 
Penne." 

The 2nd—" What Iron heart, Src" 
The Srd— *' Is righteous Lot"'? 
The 4th.— «' 0 God, from sacred, Src" 
They are printed in a small book of about 
50 pp. intitled " A true Report of the Mar- 
tyrdome of Mr. Campian, written by a 
Catholic Priest.^' No place or year men- 
tioned in the title. The Epistle to the 
Reader seems to be from the pen of F. Per- 
sons. 

Walpole, Michael, brother of the mar- 
tyred Henry W. for some time acted as a 
Temporal Coadjutor to F. John Gerard. 
Accompanying his relative Edward Wal- 
pole to Rome in 1590, he entered the Kng- 
lish College there ; but joined the Socie- 
ty in 1 593. The prudent and learned Father 
was chosen to succeed his Brother F. 
Richard Walpole, as Prefect of Studies in 
the College of Valladolid ; and subsequently 
to be Superior of the Mission in England, 
vic^ F. Robert Jones. Retiring to Spain, 
he died at Seville in the year 1620, set. 51. 
He had been admitted to the Profession of 
the Four Vows of the Society at London, 
eleven years before his death. 

We have from his able pen. 

1. *^ A treatise on the Subjection of 
Princes to God and the Church." 4to St. 
Omer, 1608. 

2. " Five Books of Philosophical Com' 
fort with marginal Notes." Translated 
from the Latin of Boetius. 8vo, London, 
1609, pp. 144. 

3. " Admonitions to the English Catho- 
lics, concerning the edict of King James." 
4to St. Oilier, 1610. 

4- " Anti-Christ extant, against George 
Downham." 2 Vols* 4to. St. Omer, 1613.4, 



He calls himself Michael Christopherson. 
In the Epistle Dedicatory to King James, 
he treats of the system of persecution prac- 
tised against Catholics, " It is too notorious 
to the world, what Catholics suffer for their 
conscience in your Majesty's dominions- 
How many things lye hid, which would as- 
tonish and amaze the world, if they were 
layd open to the view thereof ? What pry- 
ing into men's secret actions ? How many 
are beaten and often tormented even to 
death? — in private houses without any 
trial? I might add such other particulars, 
as the Rodds kept in store, by some of no 
small account for young persons under 
twenty years of age, whom they use like 
Schollers, thinking it not to be against their 
gravity, to whipp them privately with their 
own hands." 

1 his work '■'Anli- Christ e:r<aM#," against 
Dr. Downham, who had written a work to 
prove the Pope to be the man of Sin, was 
reprinted in 1632. 

F. Michael Walpole, also published a 
translation from the Latin of F. P. Uiba- 
deneira the " Life of St. Ignatius of Loy- 
ola,'' in 1616, St. Omer, a 12mo. book. 
It has gone through several editions. 

Several of this Father's MS. Letters are 
subscribed *' Martinus Becanus.'' 

Walpole, Richard, brother to F.Henry, 
Christopher and Michael aforesaid, was ad- 
mitted into the English College at Rome, in 
1585. On the foundation of the seminary 
at Seville, in 1592, he was sent with others 
to commence that establishment, and 20 
February, 1593, he and another Priest, 
Henjgr Floyd, publicly defended Conclu- 
sionM ex universA Theologii decerptas 
cum maximd omnium approbatione.'' F. 
Persons, in giving this account, subjoins 
that F. Pvichard Walpole entered the So- 
ciety of Jesus three years later. F. R. 
Walpole was indeed an eminent divine, and 
displayed his powers in his " Answer to 
Matthew Sutcliffe's challenge.'' 8vo. Ant- 
werp, 1605, as he had done two years before 
in his confutation of Sallifi, a Protestant 
Minister, with the initials O. E. 

Our readers must know, that this F. was 
accused by Squires, of devising the ab- 
surd Plot of poisoning Queen Elizabeth's 
saddle. When he heard of the accusation 
he treated it with contempt; but from a zea- 
lous love of truth against forgery, he was 
induced to publish a pamphlet intitled " The 
Discoverie and Confutation of a Tra- 
gical Fiction devysed and played by Ed, 
Squyer, yeoman, soldiar, hanged at Ty- 
burne 23 November, 1598." 

Squires with his last breath proclaimed 
the Father's innocence. After filling the 
office of Rector at Seville and Valladolid, 
F, Walpole died in the last mentioned city 
prematurely in 1607, »t. 42. See p. 363, 
Vol. II, Biblioiheca Hispana. 

Walsh, Edward, of Irish extraction,, 
but born in France, 24 January, 1739 : em- 



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braced the Inslitute 7 September, 1756 — 
taught Humanities for a short time at St. 
Oiner and Bruges. Oa 20 July, 1767, was 
admitted to the degree of Master of Arts> in 
the University of Pont a Mousson : was ex- 
amined fo r his degree in the Order at Nanci, 
by the special permission of Ricci, the last 
General ; and past his examination with 
entire satisfaction, as I collect from the letter 
ofF. Andre Fijan, dated 21 June, 1769. 
For very many years F. Walsh was the 
incumbent at Durham : he was an amiable, 
polite, and clever gentleman, but of a rov- 
ing and restless disposition, even in advan- 
ced life. At length, 22 October, 1822, set. 
83, he died at his house in Durham, very 
peaceably ; and much regretted by a nu- 
merous acquaintance. 

F. Walsh published a sermon delivered 
to his flock, on the occasion of King George 
the Third's recovery, in 1789, and dedicated 
by permission to ttie Right Honourable 
William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
(4to. London, 1789, pp. 17^ It is a well 
meant but meagre peiforraance. He refers 
in p. 13, to his former discourse " On the 
propriety and necessity of taking an Oath 
of Allegiance.'^ Of this publication we 
have not seen a copy ; but for the Author's 
credit, we trust it possessed more intrinsic 
merit than its successor. 

Walsh, John, born in 1-700 : admitted 
at the age of 20 : Professed at Pontoise 2 
February, 1738. This zealous Father was 
serving the Mission at Gateshead, when the 
Duke of Cumberland passed through the 
place in January, 1746. His Chapel was 
burnt to the ground on that occasion; and 
he narrowly effected his own escape. When 
tranquillity was restored, F. Walsh settled 
himself at Newcastle, where I am lold, he 
died 26 May, 1773, and was interred in St. 
Nicholas Churchyard. 

Walsingham, Francis, born in Northum- 
berland. We must refer the reader to the 
9ih book of F. More's Hist, of the English 
Province, for the account of the wonderful 
Conversion of this Protestant Deacon. Con- 
vinced of the truth, his sole ambition was to 
become an instrument in the hands of God 
for the conversion ofothers. With this view 
he took the earliest opportunity of proceed- 
ing to Rome, to visit F. Persons, who ad- 
mitted him into the English College there in 
1606, by the name of John Fennell. Three 
years later Mr. Walsh joined the Society. 
He was then, according to F.More, (p. 404. 
Hist.) 37 years of age ; but more probably 
according to F. Southwell, (p. 264, Bibli- 
otheca,) but 33. In due time he was sent 
to the English Mission, which he cultivated 
with indefatigablezeal and abundant success. 
He was truly the Father of the Poor. On 
1 July, 1647, Bet, 71, this Model of Priests 
went to receive his crown from the Prince 
of Shepherds. 

Probably in the immortal work which 
passes lender his name, " ^ Search made 
3 F. 



into the matters of Religion" and thus 
dedicated to King James I. (4to. St. Omer, 
1609, pp.512,) he was assisted by F. Per- 
sons, then Rector of the English College at 
Rome, where Walsingham was then study- 
ing, and whence he went that very year to 
enter the Society : — 

" It is now almost ten years, dread Sove- 
reign, since making recourse unto your Ma- 
jesty for comfort of my conscience in certain 
doubts and perplexities of mind, which, by 
reading a Catholic book, I had conceived ; I 
was remitted by the clemency of your Ma- 
jesty unto ray Lord of Canterbury that then 
was, with ordertogive me satisfaction. And 
forsorauch as many things have passed in 
this affair since that time, wherewith I pre- 
suppose your princely Majesty hath not been 
acquainted, nor doth know of the small sa- 
tisfaction which I have received, I thought 
it a point of my loyal duly, and not ungrate- 
ful to your royal benignity, to yield some 
particular account what hath been done in 
the business, and what success it hath had; 
hoping that your Highness will not be of- 
fended that, after due search and painful in- 
quisition made on my behalf, and finding 
that which here in this book is set down, t 
took the resolution which I jndged to be 
most secure for my soul's health and ever- 
lasting life in the world to come. 

" Almighty God knoweth, in whose pre- 
sence I speak, that if by any search 1 could 
have found out in all this time but any one 
sure ground on the Protestant's behalf, 
whereon to rest ray salvation with any pro- 
bable security, I should never have yielded 
to any change, all worldly reasons under . 
heaven persuading me to the contrary, as 
friends, kindred, country, advancement, for- 
mer education, and the rest ; but I confess, 
that not finding this, the consideration of 
eternity struck deeply into me, hope and 
fear of endless future life did work effectu- 
ally with me. For having descried so great 
unsinceiity in so many your Majesty's chief 
and principal learned ministers, as in this 
search I have discovered, and hereu pon con- 
sidered with myself how undoubtedly true 
it is that God's most holy truth and sacred 
verity of Christian religion hath no necessity 
(but abhorreth rather) to be founded, defen- 
ded, or supported by such sinister and con- 
cised means, I began to distrust and suspect 
that it was not God's truth which was thus 
maintained, nor the saving verity which 
with these men I had learned, 

" Wherefore most humbly, on my knees, 
I beseech your Royal Majesty to pardon me 
this my resolution, whereunto 1 protest, 
upon my soul and conscience, that no earthly 
motive drew me,butonly ray love and obedi- 
ence to him that is King of all kings, who 
saith and threateneth, that whosoever loveth 
father or mother more than him (wherein 
no doubt but kings and princes are also in-- 
eluded as fathers of their subjects,) he is 
not worthy of him. And, therefore, my trust 



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and supplication is, that for obeying and 
following this ray Heavenly King (in the 
truth of Catholic religion discovered unto 
me,) I may not incur the displeasure of you, 
my earthly king, for whose prosperous life 
and happy reign to eternal felicity I shall be 
a daily suitor unto his Divine Majesty, 
** Your Majesty's most humble and devoted 
subject, 

Francis Walsingham.'' 
F. Walsinghara appears also to have been 
the Author of a pious Treatise consisting of 
32 octavo pages. The MS. is in the Library 
of the Convent at Newhall, Essex ; but 
"whether it was ever sent to Press, I cannot 
discover. The title is 

" The Evangdique Pearle, or a Treatis 
of Mentall Praver whereby it is made easey 
to all ages, sexes and capacityes. The dedi- 
cation is as foUow^s 

To the Venerable Lady Abbesse of the 
English Benedictine Dames, established" in 
Pontoise, Rt. Rev. Madame. 

"It is usually a practice in case of presents 
to desire the person they are made unto 
nottolooke upon the guift ; but the hart 
of the giver ; but I on the cleane contrary 
beseech you to judge of the hart of the giver 
by the price and usefuUnesse of what he 
gives you, which I doubt not, when well ex- 
amined, will prove he that sends it, is un- 
questionably one of your humblest and most 
entirely devoted Servants, 

Wal&inghara S. J ." 
A 2nd Edition of the former admirable 
work appeared in 1615: 4to, pp. 604. We 
• have certainly from his pen 
" Some reasons for embracing the Catho- 
lic Faith.'' l6mo. London, 1618. 

A Biographical sketch of this truly good 
and learned Jesuit, appeared in the Cath. 
Miscellany for December, 1824, but with 
much disregard of Dates. 

Walters, Thomas, born in Warwick- 
shire, in 16 19: admitted at the age of 21 : 
died 3 April, 1647. 

Walton, John, of Lancashire ; at the 
age of 20, gave himself to God, to serve him 
in the Society of Jesus ; was sent to the 
Mission in 1652, where he proved himself to 
be ** gnauus et utilis operarius." He died 
in London, 30 December, 1677, set. 55. He 
was the Author of 

** A Brief Answer to the many Calumnies 
of Dr» Henry More, in his pretended an- 
tidote against Idolatry ; shewing that no 
prudent person can, with any rational 
ground, be deterred from returning to the 
Communion of St. Peter's Chair by any 
of the Doctor's best and strongest eviden- 
ees to the contrary." The Book was prin- 
ted in London, as F, Southwell affirms, in 
1672. It is a small octavo of 103 pages. 
Q. Was he the Editor of the Treatise of 
*' The difference between the Temporal 
and Eternal" from the Spanish of F. John 
Eusebius Nieremberg." S. J. and written 
shortly before that holy man's death at 



Madrid,? April, 1658. aet. 68. The dedi- 
cation of this Ovo. pp. 389, A. D. 1672, is 
to Catharine, Queen of England. 

Waltok James, was born 10 June, 1736, 
entered the Novitiate in 1757 : after a long' 
Missionary career in Maryland. He died 
there in 1803. 

♦Walton, Roger, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted 7 September, 1681. He had hardly 
finished his Noviceship and made his vows, 
when he died at Watten, 24 September, 
1683, aet. 23. 

Walton, Thomas, born 5 August, 1740, 
admitted with James W. above-mentioned 
in 1757. I find him employed in iho Lincoln- 
shire Mission, 14 years later. He died at 
Irnham, in 1797. 

Walton, William, of Lancashire, ad- 
mitted in 1671, Bet. 20 : succeeded F. 
Edward Petre as Rector of St. Omer's Col- 
lege in 1697. At the end of four years go- 
vernment, proceeded to the English Mission, 
where he died, II September, 1706. 

Wambeck, Van, Adrian. I read in the 
Annual Letters of 1677, that this Father, 
after filling the office of Procurator at Wat- 
ten for ten years, had just been sent to 
Liege " ad studia Theologice perficienda.'* 
He died at Ghent, 20 January, i 687. 

Wappeler, William. This worthy 
Uncle of F. Herman Kemper, was born in 
Westphalia, 22 January, 1711 : joined the 
Society, 18 October, 1728; and according 
to the Provincial's Book, was admitted to 
the Profession of the Four Vows, 6 July, 
1749, not 1746, as stated in one of the 
Catalogues. After many years of labor in 
the American Mission, and also, if I am in- 
formed correctly, at Liverpool, he retired to 
Ghent, and subsequently to Bruges, where 
he finished his course in September, 1781» 
In the life of St. Thomas of Hereford, (con- 
taining pp. 166) written by F. Constantino 
Suysken, the Boliandist, I. Vol. October^ 
A. D. 1765, he inserts a letter of this F» 
Wappeler, on the Kelick of St. Thomas^ 
dated St. Omer's College, 24 June, 1755. 

_ Waecop, Thomas. F. More, p. 24, Hist, 
gives the account of the conversion of this 
young man at Rheims. Proceeding to 
Rome, he was admitted into the English 
College there, in 1583. Soon after recei- 
ving Priest's Orders, he became a Novice- 
S. J. at Messina, on Easter day, 1587. 
God rewarded the Sacrifice he made of him- 
self: for on completing his Noviceship, he 
was ordered to Spain, but died at Alicant, 19 
October, 1589, " the same day that he landed 
there" as I find by F. Persons's letter to F. 
Cresswell, bearing date from Toledo, 10 
December, that year. 

Wahd, George: This able Divine (but 
who was too hasty and incautious in sub- 
scribing to the propositions of a mixed na- 
ture, respecting allegiance to the Common 
Wealth) lived for several years as Chaplain 
to the Countess of Newport. He was re- 
called to Liege in 1647: but returned to 



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England within two years, where he ended 
his days 21 June, 1654. 

Ward, Jchx, bora 10 February, 1709 : 
admitted at the age of 20 ; died in England, 
4 April. 1756, 

Ware, George, of the diocese of Ro- 
chester. F. Polancus, in the name of the 
second General of the Society, F. James 
Laynez, by letter dated Trent, 21 Sept. 
1562, recommended this excellent youth for 
his admission into the Order, to the Cora- 
missary, St. Francis Borgia. Dr. Allen 
also took a great interest in the welfare of 
this deserving young man. That he was 
going to Olrautz in I 579, for his studies, is 
evident from F. Carapian's letter of 26 J an- 
uary, that year. He died at Prague, in the 
course of the year 1582. Compare pp. 12 
and 32 of F. More's Hist. 

Warford, (alias Warneford,) Wil. 
LiAM, of Bristol: quitting Rheims, he was 
adnuitted into the English College at Rome, 
in October, 1583 : but in the year 1594 
joined the Society. T find by his letter da- 
ted Amsterdam, 15 May, 1591, to F. Per- 
sons, that he had quitted Spain to proceed 
to the English Mission, on the 1st day of 
the preceding Month, and had escaped seve- 
ral dangers. About the year 1597, he wrote 
an account of several English Martyrs, with 
whom he had been more or less acquainted. 
For a short time was Penitentiary at Rome, 
which he quitted 18 August, 1599, to return 
to Spain. He died at Valladolid, 3 Novem- 
ber, 1608, aet. 53, Rel. 14. Under the name 
of George Doulye, Priest, he published an 
English Treatise intitled " A brief e instruc- 
tion by way of Dialogues, concerning the 
principall poyntes of Christian Religion ." 
12mo Seville, 1600— Louvaine, 1604. 

Two Posthumous works of his, under the 
name of George Douley, were printed at 
St. Omer, one " ^ Treatise on Penance" 
1633, 16rao. 

The other '* A method of examining the 
Conscience for a General Confession," 
1637, 12mo. 

Waring, William, whose true name 
was Barrow, a native of Lancashire, en tered 
the Society in 1632, and Professed 21 No- 
vember, 1646. After 35 years diligent 
cultivationof the vineyard — after discharging 
the office of Procurator of the Province for 
seven years, and whilst the actual Rector of 
London, an attempt was made by Oates and 
his Myrmidons, to arrest him on Michael- 
mas night, at the same time that the Pro- 
vincial F. Harcourt, (alias Whitbread) was 
taken : but timely admonished of the danger, 
he escaped at the moment, and by circular, 
advised the local Superiors to provide for 
their own and their subjects' safety, and to 
consider all letters addressed to them on 
the plot, as spurious and forgeries. He 
had an opportunity offered him of retiring 
abroad; but his anxiety to render temper al 
and spiritual assistance to his friends and 
brethren in distress, made him indifferent 



to hi3 own security. At length he was be-- 
trayed by a female servant and thrown into 
piison. A Jury influenced by party, pre- 
judice, and passion, and the epidemic horror 
of imaginary danger, brought him in guilty 
of Oates' conspiiacy, and he suffered death 
at Tyburn, 30 June, 1679, aet. 70. See the 
Brevis Relatio ; also Dr. Challoner's faithful 
Memoirs. 

* Waringham, (alias Warington^) 
Francis. This Lay-brother was born in 
Artois, in 1615: admitted in 1643: was 
living at Watten in 1655. He died there 
10 September, 1668. 

Warner, Christopher, of Norfolk : at 
the age of 27 enrolled himself among the 
Children of St. Ignatius, and was admitted 
to the Profession of the Four Vows 6 Au- 
gust, 1637. Aftera long Missionary career, 
he died in England I December, 1664, aet. 
66. 

•Warner, Crescentius, of Warwick- 
shite. The best account of this holy Tem- 
poral Coadjutor, is given in a letter dated 
Ghent, 25 January, 1682, by the Provincial 
F.John Warner, "Die octavd labentis^ 
ante 8 vesperlinam, Leodii ad meliorem 
vitam, ut pie credimus, transiil Crescent 
tins Warner, anno cetatis suce Q5, Socie- 
atis initcB 4i\, gradus suscepti Coadjutoris 
formati 30. Vir fuit semper pacijicus, 
sorte MarthcB contentus, laborideditus,ad 
omnia Coadjutorum officio indifferens, 
ad minimum Super iorum suorum nutum 
promptus. Missionem Marilandicam pe- 
tierat et impetraverat ; sed cumaliquam- 
diufrustrd in Anglii naves illic transitu- 
ras expectasset, Moderatorum suorum 
jussu in Belgium reversus inchoatum re- 
ligioscBvitcecui sumabsolvit. Toto extremi 
morbi tempore {qui et prolixus et molestus 
fuit) magnosfuit adstantibus cedifcationi : 
numquam conqueri auditus est, quantum- 
vis magnos dolores sentiretf in quibus pa* 
ternam Dei manum agnoscebat. Ad ex~ 
tremum usque spiritum sibi prcesens 
mortem se non timere, sed optare videba- 
tur : in Dei bonitate et Christi Jesu meri- 
tis spem reponens beatce JEternitatis mox 
secuturce^ cupiebat dissolvi et esse cum 
Christ o. Sanctis Ecclesice Sacrameniis 
rite munitus, ad extremam cum hoste 
luctam, animam Creatori placidissime 
reddidit:^ 

I suspect that he was uncle to the Pro- 
vincial, F. John Warner*. 

Warner, .John, of Warwickshire : after 
teaching Philosophy and Divinity in the 
English College at Douay, and publishing 
under the name of Jonas Tharaon, the re« 
futation of the Errors of Thomas White, 
in a 4to Vol. intitled "VindicicB Censuroe 
Duacena'* 1601, he embraced the pious In- 
stitute of St. Ignatius, towards the end of 
December, 1663. For four years he was 
Professor of Theology at Liege : was then 
sent to the English Mission, whence he 
was recalled to be Rector of Liege, in 



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1678. On 4 December, the year following, 
he was declared successor to the martyred 
Provincial F.Whitbread, f alias Uar court.) 
He assisted in that capacity at the 12th 
General Congregation of the Society at 
Rome, which began its Sessions 21 June, 
1682, and concluded 6 September, that 
year. On this occasion hs supplied to F. 
Matthias Tanner copious materials for his 
**Qrevi8 Rdatio" a work so often referred 
loin these pages. This fact is distinctly 
stated by F. Henry Sheldon, to the General 
Charles de la Noyelle in the year 1700, 
■where speaking of F. M. Tanner's literary 
labors, he says **adjuhis maxime a P. 
Joanne Warner Provinciale Anglice, cum 
timul Cungregationi Xll Romce interes- 
sent.'* At the expiration of his triennial 
Government the Ex Provincial was named 
Rector of St. Oraer's College. Towards 
the end of December, 1684, a fire broke 
out in the night which consumed the great- 
er part of the College ; but as the Annual 
Letters state nemo adolescenlium qui is- 
tic non exiguo numero supra 180 litteris 
operam dant, in sumynd consternatione 
ac perturbatione, detrimentum quidpiam 
ah improvisd Jlammd passus est quod sin- 
gulari Deiparce, cui illi devctissimi sunt, 
Patrocinio adscribitur.'' The Rector 
exerted himself wonderfully in irs Resto- 
ration : he had the comfort and delight 
of witnessing its rapid resurrection, like the 
Phoenix from its ashis — in every respect 
more commodious and splendid than before 
**novumjam Collegium mullo splendidius, 
muUoque commodius est excitatum." 
Ann Litt. 

In the course of the year 1686, King 
James II. selected F. Warner for his Con- 
fessor: and he could not have chosen a 
man of more integrity, moderation and 
prudence, and more averse to political in- 
trigue. When the Revolution burst into a 
conflagration, F.Warner was exposed to 
imminent danger. He was twice a Pri- 
soner, Isi at Gravesend, then at Maidstone ; 
and would have been consigned to the 
Tower, if anobleman had notraanaged under 
a forged Pass, to convey him safely abroad. 
Rejoining the King inFrance,he afterwards 
accompanied his Majesty to Ireland, and 
lloally to St. Germain, where he died 2 No- 
vember, 1692, aet. 64. maximumque sui 
desiderium et Serenissimo Regi et toti 
Aula reliquit," 

Whilst a Jesuit, this learned Divine pub- 
lished a Treatise entitled Stillingjleet 
still against Stilling fleet, or the exami- 
nation of Dr. Stillingjleet against Dr. S. 
examined." By I. W. 8vo. 1675. pp. 279. 

2. '* A Revision of Dr. George Mor- 
leVs Judgment in matters of Religion, or 
an answer to several Treatises written by 
him upon several occasions, concerning 
the Church tfRome, and most of the Doc- 
trines controverted betwixt her and the 
Church of England, To which is annex t 



a Ti'eatise on Pagan Idolatry.'' 4to. 
1683, pp. 286. 

From p. 129, to the end of the work is in 
Latin. 

S. " Ecclesiee Primitivce Clericus.*' 
4to. 1686, pp. 233. 

A luminous and valuable work. Whilst 
it inspires in Priests a love of their holy vo- 
cation, it encourages peace, kindness and 
concord amongst all ranks of the Clergy, Se- 
cular and Regular. " Reddat nobis Domi- 
nus omnibus labium electum, ut invocemus 
omnes in nomine Dui et serviamus in Hu- 
mero Una.*' — Sophoniae, iii. 9. 

His last work " A Defence of the Doc- 
trine and Holy Rites of the Roman Catho- 
lic Church, from the Calumnies and Cavils 
of Dr. Burnett's Mystery of Iniquity u»- 
veiled." The 2nd Edition, with a Post- 
cript to Dr. R. Cudworth, appeared in 1688, 
London, 8vo. pp. 325. 

Warren, William, was admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1651 : occurs as Chaplain and Confessor 
to the poor Claves of Gravelines, in p 278- 
334, of Lady Warner's Life. In a paper 
containing some memorandums made by a 
Nun of that Convent more than a century 
ago, I read " 1682— Father William War- 
ren, a Roman Priest (of whom R. F. Barton 
said, " he was a man who never sinned in 
Adam *') was 26 when he came. He had 
buried the community that was living when he 
came to be Confessarius, excepting one Reli- 
gious. Of 82 Religious, who had been 
clothed, there remained living 58 when he 
dyed, He was 70 years old." 

Warrilow, William, born 13 July, 
1738: at the age of 22, after finishing his 
Philosophical studies in the English College 
at Douay, he was a Candidate for admission 
into the Society, and entered the Novitiate at 
Watten 7 September, 1760. When he had 
taught Philosophy at Liege for three years^ he 
was sent to Ellingham Mission, and on the 
death of F. John Walsh, became his suc- 
cessor at N«wcastle upon Tyne, where he 
remained the incumbent until his death, 13 
November, 1807. He was interred in St. 
John's Cemetery. His talents in the Pul- 
pit were much admired. Mrs. Siddons, after 
hearing him, said, if Mr. W. had taken to 
the stage, instead of the Priesthood, be 
would have realised a splendid fortune. 

*Waters, Ignatius. This Lay-brother 
was admitted 20 November, 1680 : died at 
Liege 13 January, 1721, set. 62. 

Waters, John, admitted 11 March, 1690 
died at St. Omer 8 December, 1694, set. 26. 

WaiertoN, Charles, of Walton Hall, 
Yorkshire: born 11 November, 1744: ad- 
mitted at the age of 18; was teaching the 
little school at Bruges in 1771; died 5 
August, 1773, being drowned in bathing at 
Blackenburgh, near Bruges. 

Waterton, Francis, born in July, 
1726 ; admitted in 1744. I have been told 
that he quitted and took to the Medical line. 
—Query ? 



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Waterton, Thomas, eldest son of 
Charles W. of Walton Hall, by his wife 
Anne Gerard, and uncle to F. Charles 
Waterton, was born 4 June, 1701 : admitted 
in 1721 ; Professed in England 2 February, 
1739. For many years was Missionary in 
the Bishoprick of Durham. He died 13 or 
16 August, 1766. 

Webb, Edward, of Suffolk, was admitted 
into the English College at Rome in 1602 : 
joined the Society at Louvain 11 January, 
1609. He was much esteemed for sanctity 
of life. Three years before his death he 
was appointed Procurator of tlie Mission, 
and died in that office at Rome, 28 February, 
1622, 8et. 47. He was buried in the Church 
of the English College there in the same 
vault with F. Thos. Owen. 

Webb, George, admitted 9 October, 
1672, aet. 19. In 1695, I meet with him as 
Rector, at Ghent. For several years later 
he was employed in the College of St. Igna- 
tius. I think that he died its Rector, in 
the course of the year 1709 ; for in the An- 
nual T-etters of the year following I read 
'* P. Thomas Parker, Rector Col. S. Ig* 
natii eyregie fungitur omni muneris sui 
parte, uti etfecerat ejus prcedecessor P. 
Georgius Webb." 

Webb, Michael, of London : admitted 
in 1642, died in England 2 September, 
1665, eet. 42. 

Webb, Thomas, of Gloucestershire. In 
the Provincial return of 1655, he is stated 
to be then 63 years of age, of which period 
he had spent 39 in the Mission, and 35 in 
the Society. He died in England 9 March, 
1658. 

Another F. Thomas Webb, had been ad- 
mitted in 1658, an Alumnus of the English 
College at Rome, before he joined the So- 
ciety. 

*Weld, Edward, second son of Thomas 
Weld, of Lullworth, Esq., the Founder of 
S tonyhurst College. Whilst studying Di- 
vinity at the said College, this innocent and 
promising youth was carried off by a putrid 
fever 17 January, 1796, and was inter- 
red at Mitton, in the Shireburn Vault. His 
Father placed a Tablet to his memory in 
the College Church, with the following ap- 
propriate inscription from the pen of the 
deceased's Friend and Tutor, Rev. C. 
Plowden : — 

t 

Moiuorise et quieti 
Ed ward I Weld 
Juvenls optitni etsingularis exempli 
Qui sub hujus CoUegii inltiis 
Magno Amoris ardore 
Sacrse Religion! se totum addixit. 
Vita Innocens, Moribus ingenuus. Proposlto sanctus, 

Vixit anno3 XX, mensem I. 
Decessit XVI Kal. Feb. An. M. DCC. LXXXX. VI. 
Thomas Pater. 
Filio bene mereriti contra votum feci 
Ave, puor pientissime. et vale in pace. 
Quid querar ? immitem Pietati baud parcere Mortem? 
En tanta; merces Mors Pietatis erat, 

3g. 



Weld, John, younger brother of Edward, 
and born at Lullworth Castle 15 June, 
1780. On the death of his elder brother, 
he stept into his place as a candidate for 
the Ecclesiastical state in 1796. After 
edifying the College of Stonyhurst as a 
Junior, and as a Novice, and giving general 
satisfaction as a Prefect, to which office he 
was first appointed 28 April, 1801, he was 
declared Minister, and then President or 
Rector of Stonyhurst College. He died 
holding this dignity 7 April, 1816. Our 
mutual friend, the Rev. Chs. Brooke, has 
honoured his memory with the following 
Epitaph in the College Church:— 
t 

I. H. S. 

Quieti et Memories 
Joannis, Thorn. F. Weld, S. J. 
Domo Lulworth in Agro Dorsettensi 
Hujus CoUegii Rectoris 
Qui 

Pietatc, Innocentid, Modestid 
Spectandus 
Cams domi Forisque 
Qmcm vixisset Ann. XXXVI tanlum, 
Magistratu ac Vitd defunctus est lubens 
VII Eid, Apr. An. MDCCCXVI. 
Maria Stanley Weld 
Filio Pientissimo /ac. cur. 
Cum lacrimis 
In Pace 
P 
>^ 

We may say of him "In the midst of 
life, he consumed like Incense upon the 
Altar, burning bright, and diffusing fra- 
grance, till not a remnant could be seen." 

Weld, Wm. Humphry, second son of 
Humphry Weld, of Chidiock, Esq. by his 
wife, thg Hon. Christina (Clifford) born in 
Bridport 9 July, 1814. From infancy he 
was a child of benediction, and as he ad- 
vanced in years, the desire of his heart was 
to manifest in his life the virtues of his 
Patron St. Aloysius. On the feast of this 
saintly model he made his first confession 
and communion, and again on the Saint's 
Festival he pronounced his Religious Vows 
in the Society of Jesus, Burning with zeal 
for Foreign Missions, he sailed with some 
of his Brethren in the Plantagenet bound 
for Calcutta, on 15 June, 1839, and reached 
his destination on 27 September following. 
In that city he laboured incessantly in 
teaching in the College, in visiting the 
Hospitals and instructing the poor. By 
his urbanity of manners and disinterested 
virtues, and literary attainments, he suc- 
ceeded in acquiring the esteem and respect 
of all parties. His death was the reward 
of Charity; for he died in consequence of 
sickness, contracted in attending the Hos- 
pital of Calcutta, 29 March, 1844. 

Weetmam, Clement, boru at Pipe Hall, 
Staffordshire, in 1781. After studying at 
Sedgley Park, he was sent to Stonyhurst in 
the Autumn of 1796. He went through all 



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his Classes with a fair share of credit. For 
some years he filled Ihe office of Prefect, 
and by his firmness, tempered with mild- 
ness, gave general satisfaction. In August, 
1806, he was directed to take upon himself 
the Grafton Mission, void by the retirement 
of the Rev. James Leslie. Having regularly 
corresponded with this my fellow student, 
and bosom friend, I am well acquainted 
with the many difficulties he had to encoun- 
ter, from the perverse temper and unprinci- 
pled conduct of a Steward, and from the 
indecision of his Patron, the late Earl of 
Shrewsbury ; but be succeeded in conquer- 
ing them all and had every prospect of en- 
joying the fruit of his meritorious labors, 
when he caught a violent cold in the spring 
of 1812, which by neglect in the beginning, 
from over confidence in his hardy constitu- 
tion, terminated in consumption. He died 
at Worcester, in the mid career of useful- 
ness, 19 March, 1813, set. 32, and his re- 
mains were deposited in St. Oswald's Ce- 
raetry. 

Wells, Charles, of Bramridge, of Co. 
of Hants, born 14 March, 1702 ; admitted 
at the age of 18, and eighteen years later, 
whilst in England, was promoted to the 
rank of a Professed Father. On 16 August, 
1753, was declared Rector of Ghent, and 
died in office 1 April, 1757. When F. 
Thorpe, then at Rome, heard of his death, 
he wrote thus to his friend the Rev. John 
Jenison, *' the loss of so worthy a member 
as F. Wells, is very afflicting to all us ex- 
iles here : for we are very sensible of how 
great an advantage such gentlemen are to 
the Province," 

Wells, Gilbert, born 22 November, 
1714 ; admitted 18 October, 1731 ; died 
according to the Necrology, in Wilts 
(■where he had long been a Missionary,) 
October 17, A. D. 1777. 

Weldon, John. — He was the Author of 
'* The Divine Pedagogue" (Svo. London, 
1692, pp. 412) dedicated to Henry, 3rd 
Lord Arundell, Baron of Wardour ; but I 
can learn no particulars of the writer. 

There was a Priest of this name at Raffin 
in Ireland, who published a work entitled 
*' The Second Nativity of Jesus the ac- 
complishment of the First." Svo. Antwerp, 
1686, pp. 432. 

Weldon, or Welton, James, born in 
Northumberland 14 June, 1716: began his 
Noviceship as I find by the Provincial's 
book) 13 June, 1739. I cannot follow him 
through subsequent life ; but the list in the 
Directory fixes his death in London, to 10 
December, 1802, set. 86. 

Weldon, Thomas,— There were two of 
this name. The first was truly called Fen- 
rviclc Weldon; but took the nam* of Thomas 
Weldon : was born 17 July, 1705 : entered 
the Society in 1723: was Professed in 
1741 : died 3 December, 1 762, He is 
sometimes called fVilUam Hunger. 



The other Thomas Weldon, who suc- 
ceeded the Right Hon. and Rev. F. Moly- 
neux, at Scholes, near Prescot, died there 
26 April, 1786, set. 75, and was buried at 
Windleshaw. 

West, Francis, born in Herts : at the 
age of 20, was received into the Order ; 
and admitted to the Religious Profession 
29 September, 1641. After being Peniten- 
tiary at Loretto, he was sent to the English 
Mission, and died there eleven years later, 
viz., 14 October, 1658. set. 52. 

•West, Peter, of Devonshire. — This 
Temporal Coadjutor, was admitted in 1637 : 
rendered himself very useful by his skill in 
medicine : died in England 29 January, 
1656, set. 73. 

Westby, Peter, (alias Walker) born 
20 May, 1727: admitted at the age of 22 : 
Professed 2 February, 1767 : succeeded 
the Rev. F. T. Weldon at Scholes ; but 
died there two years later, viz., 14 Novem- 
ber, 1788, as his gravestone at Windleshaw 
testifies. 

Westby, Thomas, died in England 18 
February, 1735-6, set, 32. Soc. 11. 

Weston, John, falias Wright,) a native 
of Suffolk, The Annual Letters of 1650 
state, that he had died about the month of 
July, 1649, in the residence of St. George — 
that he was admitted at Liege into the So- 
ciety, and after the two years Noviceship, 
proceeded to the Worcestershire Mission, 
which he continued to serve for 26 years, 
until bis death, set. 60. He had been ad- 
mitted to the rank of a Professed Father, 
6 July, 1632, " Feruni omnes virumfuisse 
religioscB integritatis optimique exempli" 

Weston, John, born at Cbudleigh, 4 
August, 17?3: educated at Stony hurst and 
Clongowes : ordained in the Church of the 
latter College by Archbishop Murray, Sub- 
dean 21 Sept. 1820 ; Deacon 22 Sept.lS20p 
and Priest on the day following : said his 
first Mass 1 October that year. A twelve- 
month later, his Superiorsappointed him to 
the Mission of South Hill, near Chorley, 
where for seven years he labored with inde- 
fatigable zeal. He was then traiisferred 
to Stot^kheld Park; but on 9 Nov. 1833, 
was intrusted with the charge of the Con- 
gregation at Lowe House, near St. Helens. 
Here he consummated his course, in the way 
he had long and fervently prayed to do, by 
dying a victim of charity in attending tlie 
sick.) 3 January, 1837, and was buried at 
Windleshaw. 

The accompanying letter to his Rev. 
Brother Thomas, from the pen of a friend 
who has since followed him to a premature 
grave, will edify and comfort the pious 
reader : 

Lowe House, Jan. 8d. 
Rev. Fr. in Xt. 
Your excellent Brother expired this 
afternoon at 2f. He retained his senses 
to the last, dying the death of the just. 
May ray end be like untc his. People of 



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every religious denomination sincerely 
regret his loss. No man was ever more 
respected in this town, and no one deserves 
to be more regretted — I never left his bed- 
side, except when unavoidable duties called 
me away, and I can say, that never a syl- 
lable escaped his lips which betrayed the 
least sign of impatience j indeed he never 
asked for any drink to cool his parched 
mouth, but always took whatever was of- 
fered hioc. Almost his last words were, " I 
am going to enjoy God for ever, for ever, 
for ever/' — During the last hour of his life, 
though his power of speech was gone, I 
could see that his lips were moving in 
prayer — may my soul die the death of the 
Just. — Yours, &c, 

Chs. Irvine. 

Weston, William. — For a full Bio- 
graphical account of this extraordinary man 
we must refer our readers to the 4th Book 
of F. More's Hist, and to Tanner's Vol. of 
the Confessors of the S. J ; but especially 
to F. "Weston's Auto-biography compiled 
by order of his Superiors. 

He was born at Maidstone ; was admit- 
ted into the Order at Rome, 6 November, 
1575; consummate in wisdom and piety, 
he was ordered, in 15S4*, to repair to En- 
gland. Sailing from Dieppe, he reached 
the coast of Norfolk in September that 
year, in the company of his socius Ralph 
Emerson, and a lay Gentleman, Mr, Henry 
Hubert, and was appointed successor to F. 
Jasper Hey wood, (as superior of his Bre- 
thren in England) who bad been committed 
a Prisoner to the Tower of London. Great 
were the fruits of his zeal, seconded by the 
holiness of his life, and engaging manners. 
Amongst his Conquests to God and the 
Church, was Philip Earl of Arundell. But 
it pleased the Almighty to exercise the vir- 
tue of his servant in ibe ordeal of tribu- 
lation and suffering. For seventeen long 
years he was a prisoner for Christ;-V he had 
also much to endure from the ingratitude 
and malevolence of false Brethren, especi- 
ally in Wisbick Castle. Discharged at the 
accession of King James the Isl," this man 
of God, and illustrious Confessor of the 
Faith, Cbeloved and admired of his enemies, 
says F. Garnolt,) who had nearly lost his 
sight through the rigour of his confinement, 
left London for Rome 13 May, 1603 : after 
some stay in the holy city, he proceeded to 
Spain to take charge of St. Alban's College 
at Valladolid — and there he ended his days, 
in the highest opinion for eminent San- 
citity, 9 April, 1615, set. 65. His vene- 
rable skull has recently been brought to 
Slonyhurst, 15 March, 184)3. 

* More, p. 141 incorrectfy states 1583, as the 
date of his arrival in England. 

tWhilst in the Olinck Prison he was in daily ex- 
pectation of Maityrdom: and indeed this was the 
general belief of himself and his friends, and he 
says " hlc lilteras ad ninrtyrium cxhortatorias ab 
Patre Robeito Southwello et Johanne Coriielio 
(utroquc jam i Societate Martyre) accepi. 



♦Wharton, Francis. — This Scholastic* 
born 9 November, 1729 : admitted in 1749: 
died at Liege 31 March, 175S. 

Wheble, James, born in the Parish of 
Tisbury, Wilts, 4 December, 1725 : admit- 
ted by the name of Gifford, at Watten, 7 
September, 1743 ; was Professed 2 Febru- 
ary, 1761. Mr. C. Butler, (p. 308, Vol. II. 
Hist. Memoirs London, 1819) stiles this 
Rev, Father *' a distinguished Preacher.'' 
Henry, the 8th Lord Arundell, selected him 
for his private Chaplain ; his Lordship was 
wise and fortunate in his choice, for F. W. 
was solidly virtuous, an excellent scholar — 
possessed a powerful and extensive intellect, 
and was eminently prudent. Dying at 
Wardour, after a long illness, he was inter- 
red near the entrance door of the Chapel, 
aad the grave-stone is thus inscribed, 
t 

D. O. M. 

Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least 
you my friends ; for the hand of the 
Lord hath touched me. .Job xix. 
To the Memory of the Rev. Mr. 

James Wheble, Chaplain for 
Twenty-four years to the Right 
Honorable Lord Arundell, who 
After a long and painful illness, 
which he bore with the greatest 
patience and resignation to the 
Will of God, departed this life 
The 29th of January, 1788, ^t. 63. 
Requiescat in Face. 
Blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord, 
they shall rest from their labors : for 
their woiks follow them. — Apoc. xiv. 13, 
The Lord is my light and ray salvation 
Whom shall 1 fear ? 1 hope to see the 
good things of the Lord in the land of 
the living — Ps, xxvi. 
F. Wheble translated a Pastoral charge 
of Massillon into English, and addressed it 
to the Catholic Clergy of Great Britain and 
Ireland, 8vo. pp. 43: printed by J. Mar- 
raaduke, London, 1784. 

WiiETENHALL, Henuy, bom, I think in 
Kent, 31 August, 1694; admitted 7 Sep- 
tember, 1713: was Professed 15 August, 
1732, in Maryland, where he was a Mis- 
sionary for several years. For some time 
was Chaplain at Lullvvorth. He died in 
London 27 May, 1745. 

White, Andrew, born in London. At 
the age of 28, and on 1 Feb. 1607, was ad- 
mitted into the Novitiate of St. John's at 
Louvain,j and made his simple Vows there 2 
February, 1609. His Profession in the 
Society took place 15 June, 1619. Pos- 
sessed of transcendant talents, he was ap- 
pointed to the office of Prefect of Studies, 
and to the Professorship of Scripture, Scho- 
lastic Theology and Hebrew, King Charles 
the first having granted, in June, 1632, the 
Province of Maryland to Sir George Calvert, 
the 1st Lord Baltimore, this pious Noble- 
man, as well as his son Cecil, (who had 
married Ann Aruudell) applied to the En- 



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glish Provincial, F. Ricbard Blount, and 
to Mutius Vitelleschi, the 6th General, 
S. J, for some of his English subjects, to 
attend the Catholic Planters and settlers, 
and to instruct and convert the native 
Indians. The design was approved : and 
F. Andrew White was directed to prepare 
for that Mission. Like a giant, he exulted 
to run his course : he arrived safe, in March 
1634, and his successful zeal intitled him 
to the glorious title of the " Apostle of Ma- 
ryland." On 6 July, 1640, he baptized 
Chiloraacan, King of Pescatoway, his wifs 
and son, with great solemnity. In FF. John 
Altam, John Brock, Philip Fisher, John 
Gravener, Roger Rigby, and some others, 
■whose names are written in the book of life, 
be met with efficient Coadjutors. Eternal 
Gratitude can never repay the obligations 
which the Mission of Maryland owes to the 
disinterested zeal and charity of the English 
Province of the Society. 

After ten years of accumulated labors 
and services to the Colony, F. White was 
seized by some of the English Invaders from 
Virginia, the avowed enemies of Civil and 
Religious liberty, and carried off a prisoner 
to London. At length he was sentenced to 
banishment. Thirsting for the salvation of 
his dear Marylandians , he sought every 
opportunity of returning secretly tcf that 
Mission ; but every attempt proving in- 
effectual, he was content to devote his re- 
maining energies to the advantage of his 
native County. In bis old age, even till 
the end, he continued his custom of fasting 
on bread and water twice a week. Whilst 
a prisoner, he was reminded by hia keeper, 
to moderate his austerities, and to reserve 
his strength for his appearance at Tyburn. 

Cui P. Andreas f mihi vero ipsum Je- 
junium abunde virium subministrat ad 
quidlibet Christi Domini met causd per- 
ferendum'' This truly great and good 
man died peaceably in London, not 27 
September, 1655. (as Southwell relates, p. 
60, Biblioth.) but 27 December, 1656, O, 
S. or 6 January, 1657, N.S; The Pro- 
vincial Lists o f 1642, and of 1655, vary as 
to his age. The Annual Letters of 1656, 
make him an Octogenarian. Southwell des- 
cribes him as " Prope Octogenarius:" 
from the comparison of various documents, 
I believe he was in his 78tli year, at the 
lime of his death. He was the author of a 
Grammar, Dictionary and Catechism, in 
the Indian Language, and of his Voyage, 
with a History of Maryland." » 
Mr. Thos. Kennedy, a Presbyterian Gen- 
tleman, and a Member of the House of As- 
sembly in Maryland, has published a Speech 
in which he asserts that a Jesuit was the 
author of the First Bill for Liberty of 
Conscience in Maryland. 

Q. Was this Jesuit F. Andrew White ? 
He may have suggested such wise policy to 
Lord Baltimore. 
White^ Edward, left Rome for France 



in the Company of F. Edward Knott, 6 
April, 1622 : died in England in the course 
of the year 1640. 

White, Henry. — ^His name was Brun- 
chard; was admitted in lt?79 : died at 
Lie^e 13 November, 1693, set. 33. 

White, Johk, born in February, 1744 : 
admitted 20 January, 1763 : died at Ham- 
mersmith, 27 September, 1771, at the early 
age of 27. Had he not been a pupil of 
Dame Alice, of Fernyhaigh, in Lancashire ? 
See p. 483, Cath. Mag. 1832. 

White, Robert, of Northumberland : he 
was admitted at Watten in 1641, and Pro- 
fessed of the Four Vows 9 February, 1659. 
Sent to the English Mission *' 24 circitu 
annas ad multor um salutem simul et sola- 
tium laboravit." — An. Lit. He died in the 
College of St. Ignatius, 25 September, 1677, 
ffit. 56. 

WatTE, William, is said to have died in 
England 26 February, 1688. 

Whitbread^ Thomas, see Harcourty 
Thomas. 

Whitfield, Cuthbert.— His real name 
was Henry Lawson, Towards the end of 
December, 1678, after fourteen years of bad 
health, be died at York, of Consumption, in 
the 50th year of his age, and 22nd of Re- 
ligion. He was a convert : and is described 
as " Vir magnce prudently et integritatis, 
animarum salutis perquam studiosus." 

Whitfield, Hugh, of the County of 
Durham. I read in the Annual Letters of 
1654, that 22 April, that year, he was be- 
trayed by a false brotlier whom he had re- 
conciled to the Church. The Father had 
just finished Mass, and taken off the Vest- 
ments, when he was seized at Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, with about two Dozen of his 
flock. All were «et at liberty except the 
Father, who with great difficulty was suf- 
fered to be ont on bail. Two Securities for 
his appearance, were found for him, in 
£200. each. On this occasion Mr. Ralph 
Clavering displayed the highest magna- 
nimity and generosity. I report the exact 
words in the Annual Letters, " Rodolphus 
Clavering nongeneremagis, quam pietatCf 
constautid et magna rerum usu ac pruden - 
tid nobilis, qui inter alia, " Indignos 
enim vero nos CathoUco, inquit^^ nomincy 
si dum impensis parcimus, Dei Sacerdo- 
tem capite oppugnari permittimus'" Eo- 
dem animata spiritu, pari divitiarum 
contemtione, et in Dni vinecB cultores in-' 
censa alia ejusdem viri vox : namque in 
familiari aliquando congressione cum 
Calviniance perfdice Buccinatore ScotOf 
capitali sanctce Pidei hoste^ cum in ser* 
monem de impendente turn maxime Ortko- 
doxorumcapitibus procelld dilapsi essentj 
nescio quid injicienteScoto^ atquipecuniis, 
nos, inquitj arbitratu vestro emungere 
poteritis, census et annuos redditus in 
fiscum avertercj etiam avitis fundis et 
possessionibus precipites agere, id veri 
nulla unqiiam arte consequemini, ut Pas- 



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torum nos commercio prohibeatis: iterum 
Sacerdotum subsidioprivari nec possumus 
nec vero twlumus.'' 

After the Father's escape I lose sight 
of hira. 

Whitfield,Thomas, born in the County 
of Durham, according to the Provincial Re- 
turn of 1655, in the year, 1615, but accor- 
ding to F. Southwell (p. 770, Biblioth) 
three years earlier : admitted at Watten in 
1630. This learned and pious Missionary 
commenced his ministry in Northampton- 
shire ; but for very many years Avas stationed 
in the residence of St. Stanislaus; and I 
suspect finished his course in Devonshire lO 
May, 1686. F. Southwell commends his 
entitled "Meditations on the Marks of the 
true Church of Christ." 8vo. London, 
1655. 

Whitgreave, .Tames, (grandson of the 
heroic and loyal Thomas Whitgreave. Esq., 
who died 14 July, 1702, set. 84.) born 14 
March, 1698 ; admitted in 1715. This 
Spiritual Coadjutor, after serving the Ma- 
ryland Mission, returned to Mosely, in 
Staffordshire, where he died Superior of his 
Brethren, in the College of St. Chad, 26 
July, 1750, N. S. and was buried at Bush- 
bury. 

Whitgreave, Thomas, elder brother of 
James W. born 8 February, 1696, joined 
the Society in 1718 : made a Spiritual Co- 
adjutor at Oxford, 2 February, 1734 : died 
SO November, 1757. 

Whitley, Richard. He is described in 
the Annual Letters as " vir grandceus et 
emeritce Senectutis : verus Israelita, in 
quo nan erat dolus.'' After many years of 
indefatigable labor in Wales, the venerable 
man was moved to London, where he 
breathed out his innocent soul, 13 February, 
1651. 

Whitmore, Richaud. 1 suspect is the 
same as Richard Wigraore, admitted an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome in 
1641 ;— joined the Society — died in En- 
gland, 28 April, 1649. 

Whittingham, Edward, was a Prisoner 
for the Faith with P. J. Fisher, p. 382, 
More's Hist. 

* Whittingham, Paul, was entered an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome, 
in 1606, died there il July, 1611, aet. 22, 
after being aggregated to the Society. 

'Whittingham, William. This most 
amiable Father was one of the unfortunate 
persons that perished by the falling in of 
the floor at Hunsdon Hall, Black Friars, 
London, 26 October, 1623. (See Drury, 
Robert,) For many years he had suffered 
imprisonment in Newgate for the Catholic 
Faith. During the last year of his life, he 
had the happiness of reconciling 150 persons 
to the Church. He was the meekest of men : 
and was usually stiled *' The Father of the 
Poor." See p. 451, More^ 

Widdrikgton, Anthont, was placed 
in the Summer of 1674, at Loretto, as Peni- 

3h. 



tentiary : died at Ghent, in April or May* 
1682. 

What relation was he to Sir Edward 
Widdrington, Bart, whose Portrait, (as laid 
out in a Franciscan Habit,) after Death, is 
still at Lullworth with this Inscription ? 

" Vera effigies illustrissitni Dni Dni 
Edwardi Widdrington, Equitis et Baron- 
etti, cetatis suce 67. Ohiit anno 1671, 13 
Junii," 

Was he not made a Baronet 8 August , 

161<2? 

WiDDRrNGTON, Henry, (of the highly 
respectable family long settled at Stella Hall, 
Northumberland) joined the Society in 
1687 : was Professed 9 May, 1705. The 
Annual Letters of 1710, proclaim him to be 

singular i pr or sus laude dignus." His 
native County was the theatre of his Mis- 
sionary exertions ; and he was Superior of 
his Brethren in the Residence of St, John 
the Evangelist. He died, I believe at 
Calilay, near Alnwick, 16 Nov. (O. S.) 
1729, set. 61. 

Widdrington, Robert. I cannot dis- 
cover the date of his admission. He was 
Professed however 2 February, 1697. For 
some time was Missionary at Biddlestone 
This venerable man died at Durham, 26 
January, 1742. I have been told that Ro- 
bert and Henry W. were the purchasers of 
the Premises in Old Elvet, Durham, which 
were occupied by their Religious Brethren, 
until their late sale in 1827 > This F. Ro- 
bert, I think, is the F. Widdrington, a Jesuit 
eminent for his piety, who assisted James 
Drummond, Duk« of Perth, in the business 
of his conversion. See his Grace's letter, 
p. 204 : Part 27 of London and Dublin Or- 
thodox Journal. 

WiGNAL, Francis: after studying Hu- 
manities at St. Omer, he entered the Noviti- 
ate 7 September, 1697: was Professed 4 
May, 1715. He died in the Lincolnshire 
Mission, 19 December, (O. S.) 1728, set. 
48. 

WiLKiNs, John, died in England 30 
December, 1651. 

• WiLKiNS, James, This Temporal 
Coadjutor was admitted in 1704 ; and died 
at Antwerp, 19 January, 1714, set, 29. 

Wilkinson, Charles, was certainly 
Minister at St. Omer's College in 1655 : 
was then 33 years old, and had spent 12 ia 
the Order. 

Wilkinson, Henry, born in Yorkshire. 
At the age of 22, joined the Society, and 
was Professed 20 January, l633. He was 
serving the Mission in Col. Im. Concep. 
when for refusing the Oath of Allegiance, 
he was committed to prison in 1640. This 
Venerable Father died in England, 23 Feb- 
ruary, 1673, set. 76. 

* Wilkinson, John. This fortunate 
finder of the ear of corn, on which F. Henry 
Garnet's Portrait was so exquisitely de- 
picted, died at St. Omer's in 1606. See 
the interesting account of him in the 7th 



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Book of F. Here's Hist of the English Pro- 
vince. 

Wilkinson , Thomas, of Lancashire ; ad- 
mitted 20 September, 1667 : was thrown 
into Morpeth jail at the explosion of Oates' 
Plot: died 12 January, 1681, set. 4S. 

* WiLLAuT, Nicholas. Admitted 20 
June, 1676. This useful Lay-brother died 
in Maryland, 22 years later, set. 50. 

Williams, Edwabd, is said to have 
died in England, during the course of the 
year 1640. 

Williams, Francis : was certainly Rec- 
tor of Watien from 1672, to 1681. The 
Reader may see an Epitaph which he com- 
posed for Lady M'arner in p. 265 of her 
Life. He died at Liege, 13 February, 
1681. 

The following Elogium, of the Life of 
Rev. Father Francis Williams, of the 
Soe. of Jesus, is abridged from a M.S^ at 
New'hall Essex, 

Our English Prov. (at the present much 
afflicted, and in a manner languishing under 
a severe persecution, much impaired by the 
late loss of many worthy subjects, consider- 
able both for virlue and learning,) received 
on 13 Feb. 1681, a very sensible damage by 
the death of Rev. F. Francis Williams, a 
person most plentifully endowed with all 
the gifts of grace and nature — his under- 
standing and will were in an admirable 
manner refined by all natural and superna- 
tural ornaments. It would be a hard mat- 
ter to nominate the sereral particulars which 
he comprehended, but far more difficult to 
imagine any thing of which he was igno- 
rant — hence it is that, whoever conversed 
with him, usually broke out in their exclama- 
tions, O ! Stupendous wit, and happy 
memory! there is no art nor science in 
which F. W. is not eminent, he did not only 
speak knowingly of Divinity, Philosophy, 
Mathematics, sacred and prophane History, 
Canon and Civil Law, Physic, Music &c. 
but was even able to teach the most profound 
matters of these arts — Whilst he was Mas- 
ter of Novices at Watten, the best Doctor 
being sent for thither from St. Omers, an- 
swered, ** my going is not necessary — your 
Rector being more skilful in my art than I 
myself— I have also heard divers excellent 
musicians owned to hare learned many 
things from him. Besides he had a singular 
prudence in governing souls and directing 
them to God, and in despatching any busi- 
ness — neither were the ornaments of his 
will less admirable : he possessed in a per- 
fect degree all his virtues becoming a reli- 
gious man, a m ost fervent zeal of God's 
honour, an ardent Charity towards his 
neighbour, a paternal or rather a maternal 
tenderness and care of his subjects, a great 
contempt of all human things, but chiefly of 
himself^an amiable fortitude, relying wholly 
upon God —wherefore several grave under- 
•standing persons, very knowing in divers 
Piovinces, do not without reason afHrm, 



they do not believe the Society can shew a 
man more absolutely complete in all kinds. 

F. Francis Williams, alias William 
Crimmes, was born in Cheshire, and bred an 
Heretic. How he spent his youth we are ig- 
norant. Being come to riper years he stu- 
died in the University of Cambridge, after 
which about the age of 30 years, on account 
of business, he sailed for Holland, but the 
vessel, was forced into Dunkirk— arriving at 
10 in the morning, he repaired to theChurch, 
where he found several women some de- 
voutly knocking their breasts, others saying 
their beads before the Image of the B. V., 
others attentive to the holy Mass ; the sin- 
cerity of these godly women much moved 
him »nd inclined him to a better opinion of 
our Religion. He departed hence for Hol- 
land, where he meets with F. George Keynes, 
by whose pious discourses and good exam- 
ple, he was moved to a change of bis religious 
Faith and manner of life. This work was 
perfected by F. Henry Silisdon, a most holy 
and prudent man, having been long master 
of Novices — To him he made a general Con- 
fession and after the Spiritual Exercises for 
8 or 10 days,wherein he made resolutions of 
highest perfection^ and changed into another 
man or rather angel ; he was no sooner con- 
verted that he conceived a vehement desire of 
serving God in all perfection, and earnestly 
sought admission into the Society, of J. — F. 
Prov. (F. Richard Barton,) judged a lon- 
ger trial necessary — he is therefore sent to 
Liege to study his Philosophy at our Col- 
lege, where for 3 years he gives himself 
wholly to piety and to his studies — In 
the year 1659, 26 March, he publickly 
defended his Philosophy with the greatest 
applause — hence he goes to Wat ten, and 
was admitted a Novice 9 April, following, 
being 37 years old — he performed the pans 
of a good Novice in perfection. — After 2 
years' Novitiate, he is sent to Liege to 
study his Divinity, which he publickly de- 
fended with general applause in the 3rd year 
of his Probation, from the 3rd year he was 
sent to Liege, where he taught 3 years of 
Philosophy and 2 of Divinity. He was 
also some years Confessor in our College, 
and Director to the Nuns, in which capacity 
he was esteemed a Saint by all, and as one 
particularly illuminated by God for the di- 
rection of souls. That great light of Divinity 
Rev. Father Terill, reverenced him as his 
Master and his Authority to overcome his 
scruples— hence it is not to be wondered 
that he was judged fit by superiors to govern 
the Novices, — here he had occasion of com- 
municating to others those flames of divine 
love, with which he himself sweetly burned 
&c. spending a great part of the night be- 
fore the B. Sacrament.— During the siege 
of St. Omer's, Watten being full of Soldiers, 
he was almost continually in prayer, so that 
the very soldiers reverenced him and obeyed 
him exactly, leaving off whatever they had 
begun for the least word from him ; he meri- 



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led that commendation which is general to 
all good superiors in the Society, that he 
never dismissed any one in tiouble, or 
without giving them comfort, — most kind 
and moderate to strangers. Having for 8 
years supported this heavy burden of spi- 
ritual and temporal cares, he was sent to 
Liege, where he arrived 4 December, and 
was made Prefect of Studies, and Master of 
Scripture and Controversy— but alas! the 
distemper ha had contracted by the cold in- 
conveniences of so long a journey, in tho 
sharpest lime of a very severe winter, still 
increased — he was obliged to go to the In- 
firmary 8 February,— the day following, 
though very ill, yet out of zeal would needs 
say a Mass, which he having finished, not 
without much difficulty, took his bed, out of 
which he was never after able to rise. On 13 
February, he made a general Confession, 
after which, with great reverence, received 
his Viaticum and Extr. Unct. in the pre- 
sence of many bewailing the loss of do 
good a parent. He spent the remainder of 
his time in acts of love, and tiiough the 
enemy of mankind was not wanting to 
suggest to hira divers imaginations, yet he 
easily rejected them ; at length on 13 Feb. 
1681, at 2^ in the night, he quietly departed 
this life. 

Another of this name, admitted in 1702, 
wag admitted a'Professed Father, 15 August, 
1720: eight years later occurs as Chap- 
lain at InceBiundell, where he died 13 May, 
1738,861. 67, and was buried at Harkirke. 

Williams, Henry, born in Yorkshire, 
in 1597; admitted at the age of 22; Pro- 
fessed 20 January, 1633 ; died in England, 
3 October, 1687, at the advanced age of 90. 

Williams, John. I meet with two of 
this name. The Senior was born 18 Sep- 
tember, 1691 : admitted in 1712: Professed 
2 February, 1730: was Superior for a time 
in the residence of St. Winifrid : died I 
think at Holywell, 23 September, 1701, 
aet. 70. 

The Junior, born 27 November, 1730 ; 
joined the Society 1750 : ordained Priest at 
Liege, 1 1 July, 1756. I think he died in 
Monmouthshire, 30 November, 1793. 

Another account states, (which I have 
now reason to believe is more correct) that 
F. John Williams died 14 February, 1801, 
at Little Malvere, where he had been living 
a.t least for a quarter of a Century. 

Williams, Joseph, whose true family 
name was Gittings, born 11 October, 1744: 
admitted in 1799. Replacing the unfoitu- 
nate Charles Wharton, at Worcester, in 
1783, he continued his zealous services in 
that City until his happy death on Lady-day, 
1797, and was interred in St. Oswald's there. 

WiiLiAMS, Peter. I meet with two 
members so called. The Senior born 4 Au- 
gust, 1689 : admitted in 1710; Professed in 
1728, died at Ingatestone Hall, 22 March, 
1755. 

The Junior was born in Flintshire, 12 



November, 1717: was admitted in 1736. 
1 have collected nothing further than the 
date of his death, viz., 26 November, 1753, 
at Ince Blundell, and that his remains were 
the last of 131 persons that had been buried 
at Harkirke Cemetery, which is now planted 
over. 

Williams, Richard, of Essex ; was 
certainly admitted in 1654 set. 20. 

Williams, Robert. I think was elder 
brother of Richard W. was admitted I think 
at the same time, set. 24: was Priest at 
Stafford, and there committed to jail, at the 
explosion of Gates' Plot. 

Williams, Thomas. This learned Father 
had studied at Oxford, as I find by a note 
of F. Persons. He died at Olmutz or Vi- 
enna, in 1611, about the age of 70, having 
passed 47 years in the Society. See p. 20, 
More's Hist, N.B. A brother Thomas W. 
who had recently made his Simple Vows 
(1614) is much commended by F. Gerard. 

Williamson, Edward, born in Lanca- 
shire : joined the Order in 1617 : was Pro- 
fesssed 6 August, 1628 : after serving the 
Mission 21 years, he retired to Liege: but 
ended his days at St. Omer's ('ollege, 19 
March, 1649, eel, 72. 

Williamson, George, born 81 July,' 
1685 : entered the Novitiate in 1718; eleven 
years later was ranked among the Spiritual 
Coadjutors : died in England, 14 January, 
1741. 

Williamson, Richard, of Lincolnshire. 
The Catalogue of 1652, shews that he was 
then 36 years of age, of which he had spent 
16 in the Society, and five in the English 
Mission — and that he had been admitted to 
his religious Profession, 19 September, 
1641, The Necrology has omitted the 
date of his death. 

♦WiLLOLGHBY, Hbnry, of Yorkshire. 
This good Lay-brother died at Watten, 7 
August, 1651, set. 64. Soc. 29. 

Wilson, Chahles, was admitted a Spi- 
ritual Coadjutor 23 January, 1698. He 
lived chiefly at Watlen, where he died, 20 
August, 1730. 

♦Wilson, Andrew. The pious Reader 
will be excited to fervor, by reading F, 
More's account of this devout Scholastic in 
the Uth book of his invaluable Hist, of 
the English Province, and will envy his 
edifying and most happy death, 15 January, 
1634. N. S. £et. 24. See also pp. 38 9 of the 
Florus- Anglo- JBavaricus. 

Wilson, John, died at St. Omer, II 
November, 1666. 

Q. Who was the pious Priest John 
Wilson, formerly F. Persons' Secretary, 
and the Superintendant of his Press at St. 
Omer ? Ses p. 248, More. Did he pub- 
lish the"£nglish Martyrologo" in 8vo 1608? 

•Wilson, Joseph, admitted 80 July, 
1697 : died in Maryland, in 1702, eet. 87. 

Wilson, Ralph, born 10 Sept. 1743 : 
admitted at the age of 20. This Scholastic 



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died within seven years later at Lincoln, 
viz, 3 February, 1770. 

Wilson, Simon. He was a Secular 
Priest and nephew to the immortal Benefac- 
tor, or Second Founder of St. Omer's Col- 
lege. At his earnest intreaty, the General 
Thyrsus Gonzales, consented to his admis- 
sion into the Society. The ceremony was 
performed 13 July, 1692. Mr, Wilson 
was then 63 years old. He died at Watten, 
7 March, 1695. 

I much regret that I cannot throw light 
on the Biography of his worthy Uncle, 

Wilson, Thomas, of Wilts. Admitted 
at the age of 21 ; Professed 21 November, 
1653; taught Greek, Hebrew, and Moral 
Divinity at Liege. After 20 years of Mis- 
sionary labor, he died in the College of the 
Holy Apostles, 6 May, 1672, set. 69. 

Q. Was he not the translator into En- 
glish of Pere Maimbourg^s peaceable Me- 
thod of the reuniting Protestants and 
Catholics in matters of Faith" dedicated 
to the Honourable William Petre, of Stan- 
ford Rivers, Essex ? 8vo. Paris, 1671, pp. 
171. 

Wilson, William, of Norfolk. This 
worthy Father, after filling the oflBce of 
Prefect at St. Omer, and Minister at Wat- 
ten, was sent to the English Mission, where 
he laboured for 24 years .successively until 
his death, viz, 14 January, 1679, set 64, 
Kel. 44, " cumbon& omnium satisf actionem 
et uberi animarumfructu." An. Lilt. 

Winter, Charles, I believe was a 
Fleming : was admitted 20 June, 1723. 
This Reverend Father died at Ghent, 12 Oc. 
tober, 1730, at the early age of 31. 

WiNTEB, William. I am told his real 
name was Morgan. 1 cannot ascertain 
the date of his admission ; but he was cer- 
tainly Jiving in London, in 1701, and 1704, 
where he died, U February, 1710. 

Wise, George, was admitted at Ghent, 
2 July, 1670, eet. 27. The next time that I 
meet with him, is in the Annual Letters of 
1674, where he occurs as Chaplain to the 
English Troops in the environs of Ghent. 
By his zealous industry, he had reconciled 
within a few months ten of the Soldiers to 
the Catholic Faith. I find him again in 
England, in the Autumn of 1694, wlien he 
was suddenly apprehended, but after a few 
days confinement, was discharged on his 
own recognizances to appear before the 
Court, when duly summoned. He died at 
Watten, set. 16, 31 October, 1704. 

*Wiseman, John, born in Yorkshire, 
6 October, 1708: joined the Society I Feb- 
ruary, 1734. He persevered in his useful 
services to his Brethren, as a Lay-brother, 
until his pious death at Liege, 20 May, 
1763. 

Wiseman, . Two brothers of 

this name, as 1 learn from F. Hen. Garnett's 
letter to the General C. Aquaviva, dated 
London, 15 July 1598, were members of 
the Society, Their incomparable Mother 



Mrs, Jane Wiseman, had been sentenced to 
death for harbouring and relieving the Revd. 
John James 0. S. F, who was executed 3 
days before the date of this letter. 

WiTHiE, Edward, born 14 April, 1689. 
entered the Novitiate 7 September, 1707; 
was Professed 2 February, 1725. After 
teaching the Belles Lettres at St. Omer, he 
was sent to the English Mission. For a 
short time he was stationed at Wardour, 
until succeeded by the Rev. Joseph Wright, 
On 10 February, 1752, he was declared. 
Rector of his Brethren in the College of St; 
Ignatius, whom he governed until 1759, 
when he was appointed Rector of Liege 
College. He continued to preside until 
December, 1764. The venerable Father 
finished his course at Liege, 22 November, 
1769, set. 8J. 

•WoEDTS, Peter. One Catalogue fixes 
his birth 3 September, 1699: the Provin- 
cial's book, which I believe to be better 
authority, places it to 14 August, 1709: 
both agree as to the date of Admission into 
the Society, 7 September, 1732. He died 
at Liege, 12 March, 1773. 

Wolfall, John. I can learn no par- 
ticulars of bira, but that he was admitted in 
1702, lo the Noviceship — 18 years later to 
his Religious Profession j and that he died 
at Ghent, 9 July, 1742. 

Wolfe, Francis, was admitted 13 No- 
vember, 1668. For many years served the 
English Mission; and died 2 March, 1720, 
at the good old age of 73. 

♦Wood, John, alias Southcofe Hill, He 
is sometimes called *' Be Sylvd." This 
good Lay-brother was a native of Devon- 
shire. He di«d at Liege, 27 April, 1663, 
aBt.77. Rel.5l. 

Wood, William, was admitted at Wat- 
ten, 7 September, 1689, set. 18: after which 
I can pursue him no longer. 

Woodford, Gabriel, born in Bedford- 
shire, in 1608: at the age of 21 commenced 
his career as a Novice : was Professed in 
the Order 21 June, 1645 : died at Liege, 12 
July, 1663. 

Woodford, Henry, is said to have died 
at St. Omer. 

Woods, Edwahd, admitted 7 September, 
1683, set. 20; was Professed in England, 
13 February, 1701. 1 think he passed oc- 
casionally by the the name of Smith. 

Woodward, Humphry, born in England, 
admitted into the Society at Rome, in 1577, 
For several years was Professor of Scripture 
at Milan, where he died, 30 November, 
1587, set. 1^5 " mira vir eriiditione et 
scientid colendi Dei." His MS. Commen- 
tary on the Psalms, has been highly com- 
mended by Possevinus and Menochius. See 
p. 24 More's Hist. p. 354. Southwell's Bib- 
liotheca, &c, 

Worsley, Edward, born in Lancashire 
in 1604, admitted at the age of 22, and Pro- 
fessed 29 September, 1641. For many years 
taught Philosophy and Theology at Liege, 



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of which College he became Rector from 
1658 to 1662. F. W. must ever rank 
among the ablest Controveriists of this, or 
any other country, as the following works 
will prove. 

1. Truth will oui," in answer to Dr. 
Jeremy Taylor's, Dissuasive from, Po- 
pery.'* 4to. London, pp. 217, printed in 
1665. " Tacito suo et Typographi no- 
mine." 

2. *' Prolestancy without Principles, 
or Sectaries unhappy fall from infalli- 
bility to Fancy." 4to. Antwerp. 1668, pp. 
627 ; with a few notes upon Mr. Poole's 
Apper^ix against Capt. Everard, pp. 44. 

3. " Reason and Religion^ or the cer- 
tain Rule of Faith, where the Infallibi- 
lity of the Roman Catholic Church is as- 
serted.'%to Antwerp, 1671. pp.681. 

4. " The Infallibility of the Roman 
Catholic Churchy and her Miracles defend- 
ed against Dr. Stilling fleet's Cavils." 
2 Vols, 8vo. printed at Antwerp in 1674, 
the first Vol. contains 260 pp. ; the 9nd 88. 
The Author in this 2nd vol. maintains the 
fact of the miraculous translation of the 
house of Loretto. 

F. W. died at Antwerp 2 September 

1676. A posthumous work of his appeared 
intitled Ant i- Goliath^ oran Epistle to 
Mr. Bevint^ containing some Refections 
upon his Saul and Samuel a t Endor." 8vo. 
1678, pp. 59. 

WoRSLEY, John, admitted 9 October, 

1677, aet, 19. This young Missionary was 
seized at Berwick at the explosion of the 
revolution, on no other account, but being 
a Priest and a Jesuit. For 19 months he 
was confined in a subterraneous and very 
damp dungeon : and during this lengthened 
imprisonment was never once permitted to 
enjoy the intercourse of a brother clergyman. 
Every sentiment of humanity appears to 
have been rooted out of the breast of his 
keepers, but like St. Ignatius the Martyr, 
under similar treatment, he rejoiced in his 
sufferings and privations, and regarded his 
chains as invaluable ornaments and jewels. 
Removed at length to the court of King's 
Bench, London, he was fully acquitted. In 
a letter of F.John Clare, (Provincial) to 
the General Thyrsus Gonzales, dated 15 
January, 1690, I find that this removal to 
London was attended with considerable 
difficulty and expence. " P. Joannes 
Worsleeus, qui jam d duohus annis, dum 
rediret ad Dominum Fitz-James, filium 
Regis nostri naturalem, captus et incur- 
ceratus est, jamque non sine magnA diffi- 
cultate et expensis ipsum Londinum duxi- 
muSy ut ibi judicetur." 

On recovering his liberty I think F. John 
Worsley repaired to St. Germaine but 1 
cannot learn the date of his death. 

Worsley, Laurence, of Somersetshire : 
born in 1613 : at the age of 20 joined the 
Society : was sent to the English Mission 
in 1643 ; died in Yorkshire 29 May, 1676. 

3 I. 



The Annual Letters describe him as 
*' Vir magnce pietatis ac zeli, quique 
multorum annerum, quibus in Anglid. 
versatus est, indefesso labore et singulari 
industrid in Sacramentorum administra^ 
tionCj concionibus, exhortationibus et 
Catechismis, quamplurimos Christo luc- 
rifecit, etmagno solatio Catholicisfuit.'* 

WonsLEY, Thomas, was actually born 
at Louvain : at the age of 18 embraced the 
Institute of St. Ignatius : and was admit- 
ted to the religious profession 8 December, 
1629. On the death of F. William Bald- 
win, Rector of St. Omer's College, in 1632, 
F. Thomas Worsley was appointed his 
successor. When his triennial government 
expired, he was ordered to the English 
Mission, where he distinguished himself by 
his zeal and charity, especially to his fel- 
low-prisoners, after his own apprehension ; 
In their conversion he was very successful. 
That he was Confessor in the latter part of 
his life to the poor Clares at Gravelines, is 
evident from the Life of Lady Warner. He 
died at Liege 8 February, 1671, ae . 74. 

WoRTHiNGTON, JoHN. I meet with two 
of this name. — The 1st was nephew to Dr. 
Worthington, the third President of Douay 
College, and was a relation to Cardinal 
Allen, its founder, and was born in Blen- 
8CO in Lancashire. He began his higher 
studies at Seville, but came to the English 
College at Rome in 1697, to finish the 
course of Divinity, Ordained Priest, he 
joined the Society at Rome, 27 October, 
1698, and went through his Noviceship at 
St. Andrews. In 1604 he came from Val- 
ladolid College, where he had been Minis- 
ter to the English Mission. Primus 
fuit qui in Provincid Lancastrensi fixit 
sedem.'' He was also the first Rector of 
the College of St. Aloysius. The reader 
will be charmed with his letter in the 6th 
Book of More's History. This noble cham- 
pion and Confessor died *' in vinculis," 25 
January, 1653, ffit. 70. See also Tanner 
Vol. I. p 149. 

The 2nd born in Lancashire 24 April, 
1713 : admitted in 1735 : died in the Lan- 
cashire Mission, soon after the Suppression 
of the Society. 

Worthington,LauRence, brother of the 
1st, or elder John, just mentioned, joined the 
Society in Spain, A.D. 1599. When he had 
taught Philosophy at Corduba and Seville for 
eight years he landed in England, in 1619. 
After 3 years' labor he was apprehended 
and committed to the Gate House, West- 
minister, whence he wrote that most inter- 
esting letter, 3 October, 1616, to his Supe- 
rior F. Thomas Owens, at Rome, preserved 
in pages 282-3-4-5, of More's Hist. 

He had been a prisoner for three years, 
viz., 1618, when he was sentenced to 
banishment •, and proceeded to give the 
benefit of his talents to several Colleges 
abroad. At length, worn out with labour, 
he died in Lorraine 19 October, 1635, ac- 



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cording to Southwell, p, 456, but Qiore pro- 
bably, according to More, p. 285, in 1637. 
He left his translation into English of 
Francis Coster's ^'Meditations on the Life 
and Passion of Christ." Douay, 1616. 

WoRTHiNGTON, Thomas. 1 meet with 
two of this name. The Senior was uncle 
to FF. John and Lawrence already men- 
tioned. Every lover of truth must regret 
that Dodd has very unfaithfully represented 
his history, p. 391-2., Vol. II. Church 
History. He was a man of irreproachable 
integrity, a solid Divioe, and a considerable 
Benefactor to Douay College, of which he 
was the third President. Besides, he had 
been a glorious Confessor of the Catholic 
Faith. This most worthy man, retiring 
from the Government of Douay College 
solicited, after some time, for admission 
into the Society. The Provincial F. Ri- 
chard Blount, granted his request, asF. 
More affirms, p. 285 Hist., but this venera- 
ble divine was called up by Jesus Christ, 
to his reward, about the sixth month of his 
Noviceship, and in the year 1626. He 
died at Biddies, or Bidulph, in Stafford- 
shire. For an account of his numerous and 
learned works, see p 770 of Southwell's 
Bibliotheca: also Dodd, p. 392, of 2 Vol. 
Hist. ; but strange to say, both omit his 
work entitled " Whyte dyed Black.'' a 4to 
Vol. of 183 pp. ; written against Dr. John 
White. See also p. 61, Vol. II. Athence 
Oxon. 

The Junior of this name died in England 
30 January, 1670. 

Another Thomas is staled to have died 
at Wigan in 1777. 

♦WORTHINGTON, WiLLIAM, is Said tO 

have died in Spain in 1604 ; but this cannot 
be, for I have seen a letter to F. Persons, 
dated Douay, 27 August, 1608, imploring 
him to obtain " his admittance into the 
companie of your most blessed Societie of 
Jesus." 

Weight, Charles, born 27 October, 
1752 : after studying Humanities at Bru- 
ges under the Rev. Charles Plowden, he 
expressed his determination to join the 
Society. With the consent of his Father, 
the respected banker in London, he entered 
the Novitiate at Ghent, 7 September, 1769. 
Whilst pursuing his higher Studies at Liege 
he was involved in the hurricane that pros- 
trated and scattered his beloved brethren 
in the Society. Possessing great talents, 
a very retentive memory, and innate tact 
for business, this pious Priest devoted him- 
self to the managemen*. of the temporalities 
of the Academy at Liege, and of the Col" 
lege of Stonyhurst. He began his charge 
of the concerns in very difficult times : the 
emigration to Stonyhurst must have added 
to the embarassment ; but Almighty God 
blest the exertions of this faithful and pru- 
dent servant, and hehad the comfort to wit- 
ness the affairs ol the Province and of the 
College brought into a good train, and even 



into a state of prosperity. Feeling himself 
unequal to the fatigues of office, he had 
contemplated retiring to Poitico, with his 
friend F. John Hughes, there to renew his 
vows in the Order, and to prepare himself 
for Eternity. Man proposes, and God dis- 
poses : for this Rev. Father, to the regret 
of his friends and the public, died suddenly 
in the Inn at Whalley, near Stonyhurst, 13 
October, 1827. The remains of the lament- 
ed deceased, were deposited near those of 
the Rev. John Weld, In the Stonyhurst 
Chapel, with the following Epitaph from 
the pen of the Rev. Charles Brooke ; — 
Quieti Eeternae 
Karoli Wright Sacerdotis 
Qui rem famiJiarem bujus CoUegii curavit 
Annos XXXXIIl 
Solers. Frugi. Religiosus. 
Exeunte An. ^tatis LXXVl abreptus est subito, 
III Id Octob. An. MDCCCXXVII 
Ilium Socii. Famuli. Egeni, Lacrimis 
Antonius Fratris F. Monumento 
Decoraverunt. 
R. I. P. 

Wright, Christopher. — I can glean 
nothing more of him, than that he succeeded 
F. Joris as Confessor to the Theresian 
Nuns at Canford, in Dorsetshire, and that 
he died there 18 or 19 March, 1799. 

Wright, Edward, born 4 March, 
1752 : admitted in 1768 : came to the Mis- 
sion in the summer of 1777 at Winsley j 
after some time was settled at Holywell.* 
This polite scholar died there, after renew- 
ing his Vows in the Society, 9 April, 1826, 
eet. 74. 

Wright, George. We have seen his 
letter dated 16 September, 1630, detailing 
the Emperor Ferdinand's intention, to found 
a College at Osnaburgh, on the plan of the 
one at St. Omer's. On 27 August that 
year, his Majesty had directed the Prince 
Bishop of Osnaburgh, to give up possession 
of the Monastery ol Sahir with its rents 
and property to the Provincial of the En- 
glish Jesuits for that purpose, and 12 Sept» 
instructed his Embassador at Rome, to ob- 
tain the papal Confirmation of the Grant. 

Weight, Henry, of Essex, and son I 
believe of John Wright of Kelvedon, by 
his wife Anne Sulyard, died at Ghent 11 
May, 1669, set. 55, Rel. 31. 

Wright, Henrv, brother of the present 
Wm. Lawson of Brough, Esq., was born at 
Myddleton Tyars, in Yorkshire, 27 January, 
1799 : studied at Stonyhurst, t admitted into 

*ln the Annual Letters of 1690. mention is made 
of " Antiquum et perpulchrum Sacellum in Pago 
qui diciiur Holywell" — that the right of its Patro- 
nage after due examination of evidence by the 
Judges of the land, was awarded to the Queen of 
James !I. and that her Majesty granted it to the 
English Jesuits, and that it had been used for Courts 
of Session, &c. " Rex Jacobus cum ad Fontem, il- 
ium, Devotionis causa adiret, cui hoc Sacellum 
imminet, dedit Patri qui UUc habiiahai 140 circUer 
scuta ad ilium ornandum el sacris usibus aptandum, 
quod et factum est cum magna Pietatis incremenio. 
Sedjam (1690 _) iterum prioribus usibus est restitu- 
tum." 

t Perhaps we may attribute to the united prayers- 
ofthese 2 Brothers the happy death of Dr, Lawson, 



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the Novitiate at Hodder7 September, 1816: 
ordained Priest at Rome by the Patriarch 
of Constantinople, 11 July, 1828: for a 
short time served the Holywell Mission, but 
3 November, 1824, was fixed at Bury St. 
Edmunds. Here his gentlemanly manners 
and diligence in his pastoral office, obtained 
for him the respect and esteem of the public ; 
in this career of usefulness, he was attacked 
with a pulmonary complaint. For the per- 
servation of his valuable health, the tender 
charity of his Superiors relieved him from 
all missionary labours, and in June, 1832, 
removed him to London, and thence to 
Worcester, where he experienced every 
soothing attention from his religious Breth- 
ren. Duringhls severe and lingering illness, 
the good Father manifested the most solid 
virtue ; and at length Almighty God, 15 
April, 1835, crowned the merits of his ser- 
vant by the death of the righteous. 

Wright, Joseph, was admitted 31 
March, 1720 ; eleven years later was ranked 
amongst the Spiritual Coadjutors. I find 
that he was a Missionary at Wardour and 
Southend, for some time. He died in En- 
gland 14 March, 17G0, aet. 61. 

W RIGHT, Matthew, admitted 18 Feb- 
ruary, 1668 ; was rector of Watten from 
1694 to 1698 : occurs Prefect of Studies at 
St. Omer's College in 1704 ; for the Four 
last years of his life was Rector of Ghent, 
but actually died at Dunkirk, 22 August, 
1711, aet, 64, 

W RIGHT, Peter. — The life of this illus- 
trious convert and Martyr, has been ably 
written by F. Edward Courtenay, (i2mo. 
Antwerp, 1651, pp. 121, with afine portrait 
(by C. Galle.) " brilliant even to dazzling" 
as Dr. DibJin describes it, A copy of this 
interesting Book sold in Mr. Bindley's sale 
for £12. 12. We can also recommend to 
our readers his Biography in Tanner's So- 
«ietas Patiens, p. 141, and in Bishop Chal- 
loner's Memoirs. F. Wright had been 



In a letter written from Brough Hall, 11 March, 
1S32, I read thus " Dr. Lawson expired yesterday 
morning. It is a source of the most heartfelt satis- 
faction to us that during his illness he became sin- 
cerely penitent, received all the Rites of the Church, 
and during the last 8 days of his existence seemed 
solely and unremittingly wrapt up in preparing 
himself 10 appear before his Creator. A kind Pro- 
vidence allowed him the full enjoyment of his men- 
tal faculties to the last. He fully availed himself 
of this mercy, and his conduct has given the greatest 
edification. For 2 days after his last attack of 
paralatic seizure (and he had several attacks during 
the last 2 years) he positively and obstinately re- 
fused every spiritual aid — rejected the personal 
offers of assistance from clergymen, and seemed to 
defy every attempt to induce him to make his peace 
with God. When inlreaties and solicitations were 
abandoned as useless, the grace of God effected 
that, which human means were totally unable to 
accomplish. The change was noless sudden than 
sincere— from that moment every thought was di- 
rected to Heaven, and scarcely a word was uttered 
by him, except to solicit this attendants to pray 
with him. He survived this change 8 days, and 
died in these pious sentiments without a groan or 
struggle," 



Chaplain in the Marquis of Winchester's 
family, and also in the Gage family, and 
was specially maligned, as Sir Henry 
Gage's Priest. He was condemned on the 
testimony of Thomas Gage, the Apostate 
Friar, author of the New Survey of the 
West indies. Folio, 1648, brother to the 
Gallant Commander of Oxford, Sir Henry 
Gage, to Dr. George Gage, an eminent 
Divine, and as worthy as he was learned, 
and to Rev. John Gage, O. S. F, 

Q. Who was Philip Gage, the unfortu- 
nate informer in Gate's Forgery ? 

F. Wright suffered at Tyburn in the pre« 
sence of above 20,000 persons, on Whit- 
Monday, 19 May, 1651, aet. 47, Soc. 22. 
For ths details of the incorrupt state of his 
body at Liege College, in 1781. see p. 63 
of Talbot's " FazYfe and Doctrine of the 
Roman Catholic Churchy" Dublin, 1813 ; 
but the learned writer had probably never 
seen the Annual Letters of the English 
Province of 1651, which expressly say 
that the Martyr's " caput venenerabile et 
membra dissecta unguentis delibuta, 
apud nos sunt ?" The body was kept, it 
seems, at St. Omer, until 1762, when 1 be- 
lieve it was conveyed to the College Sacris- 
ty, Liege. In the Library of Stonyhurst 
College is a MS, collection of F. Wright's 
Sermons for the course of a year, 62 in 
number, averaging about 13 pages each, 

Wright, Philip, certainly died at 
Watten, 5 November, 1737. 

Wright, Stephen, of Essex, entered 
the English College at Rome, in 1641 ; 
after three years he was sent to the Mission 
where he joined the Socieiy in 1652 : and 
was made a Spiritual Coadjutor in 1664. 
He died in England, say the Annual Let- 
ters, SO August, 1680,861.60. " Vir hu- 
milis, pius, quietus et charitate excellens , 
Wright, Thomas, (alias EdwardGreen) 
admitted at Watten 7 September, 1668, aet. 
22. The Journal formerly kept at Watten 
announces his appointment to the Rector- 
ship of that house, thus " 1694, April 10, 
F. Wright declared Rector at night." 
After passing through this office, he was 
employed in the College of St. Ignatius. I 
cannot fix the date of his death. 

Wright, William, of Yorkshire : ad- 
mitted 8 December, 1581, Professed in 
1602, and distinguished himself in the 
Chair of Philosophy and Divinity at Gratz 
and Vienna. Returning to England, late 
in the year 1G06, he was appointed Chap- 
lain to the Gage Family ; but was soon ap- 
prehended and consigned to a Prison, 
which v.as shortly after nearly emptied of 
its tenants by the Jail Fever. By means 
of friends he was enabled to succeed in 
escaping from confinement at the end of 
three months : and procuring an Asylum in 
Leicestershire, he laboured for 30 years 
with mdefatigable zeal and charity. Though 
suflferlng from much bodily infirmity, he was 
always cheerful and contented: and though 



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regarded as an Oracle of Learning, his 
great delight was to teach children the first 
rudiments of Religion. He died 18 Janu- 
ary, 1639, set. 79. The following works of 
his were printed at St. Omer, with the 
Initials, W. W. or W.G. 

1. A Treatise against John White, 4to. 
1613. 

2. A Treatise against N, E. a MiniS' 
terj 4to. 1622. 

3. A Treatise against N. K. a Minis- 
ter, 4to. 1633. 

4. A letter to a person of Honor, or 
the Evil Spirit of Protestants. 4to. 1622. 

Bartoli, 14 ch. 6. Book, Inghliterra, 
mentions a Treatise written in a week, 
against the Arch-priest Blackwell, which 
caused an extraordinary sensation in the 
Public mind, on the question of the Oath 
of Allegiance. 

His translations from the Latin, are 
some Treatises of Martin Becanus, on 
Controversy, 8vo. 1612. 1619. 

/*\ James Gordon's Controversies. Svo. 
1614. 

Lessius's Treatise on the Choice of Re- 
ligion, 8to. 1619. 

His translations from the Spanish are 
•* Persecution against the Caiholike Chris- 
tians in Japonia," begun in the year 
1614. Svo. 1619. 

A Treatise on Penance, often reprinted. 

We refer the reader to the account of 
this most learned, humble, and devout Fa- 
ther, p. 363, to p. 366, of F. More's Hist. 

Wrightf William, alias Conwayt see 
Conway, 

•Yates, Francis, of Warwickshire : 
admitted in 1634 ; he died at Ghent, 18 
July, 1679, set. 73. " Vir erat humilis, 
devotus, amans laboris et qui multa Co- 
adjutorum ministeria variis in domibus 
laudabiliter exereuerat.'' An. Lit. 

Yates, John. This venerable Priest 
" Septuagenario major," whilst a Priso- 
ner for the faith was admitted " in articulo 
mortis,"* A, D. 1624t I bilieve he had 

*Wa3 not this the Translator of the Introduction 
to a devout life in 1613. 12mo. pp. 695. It is dedi- 
cated to Miss Ann Roper, daughter to Sir William 
Roper, of Well hall in Eltham, and great grand 
daughter " to that excelUot true Statesman, and 



entered into the English College at Home, 
to finish his Divinity, in 1691). 

Yates, Thomas. P. Persons, in notes 
for his own life, begun in the autumn of 
1698, says " in 1374, 1 went to see Louvain , 
in the company of a godly man, Mr. Tho- 
mas Yates, afterwards of the Society, and 
now in Brazil," &c. 

Yelvebton, Charles, of a good Family 
in Norfolk, was admitted at Louvain, 27 
July, 1608, set. 33. 

York, William. All that I can learn 
of hina is from p. 378, More's History, viz., 
that he was one of the 12 J esuits banished 
in 1618. 

♦Young, Francis, of Norfolk, occurs 
Temporal Coadjutor at Liege, in the Cata- 
logue of 1655 : was then 50 years of age ; 
of which he had spent 15 in the Society. 

Young, Francis, of Worcestershire ; 
quitting the University of Oxford, he en- 
tered an Alumnus of the English College 
at Rome, in 1598: at the age of 33, and 
27 July, 1608, was admitted into the So- 
ciety at Louvain. After some years of 
active service in the Mission, he was ap- 
prehended and committed to the Gatehouse, 
Westminster ; but he consoled himself in 
eaptiyity, by the opportunities he enjoyed 
of contributing to the spiritual succor of 
his neighbour. He was discharged with 
his colleague in bends F. Laurence Wor- 
thington, who so justly appreciated his 
merits (p. 284, More.) Reluming to En- 
gland, F. Young continued his Apostoli- 
cal labors until bis happy death, 30 March, 
1633,861. 68. He was the Translator into 
English of Cardinal Bellarmine's Treatise 
" De ascensione mentis in Deum.^' London, 
Svo. 1614. His letter to the General Ma- 
tins Vitelleschi, 8 January, 1616, from his 
Prison at Westminster, is truly admirable . 

Young, Notley, of Maryland: educated 
at Liege, and began a course of teaching 
Humanities there, which he continued for a 
short time at Stonyhurst, Returning to 
America, he died in the District of Colum- 
bia, in 1819. 



learned Counsellor, England's Honour, Faithe^s 
zealous Champion, and Christ's constant Martyr. 
Sir Thomas Moore." 



Collections^ Illustrating the Biography^ Sfc. 
IRISH MEMBERS, S. J, 

" Grata Deo Pietas, horainum merainisse bonorum." 



Archbold, KrcHARD, born in Ireland 
17 August, 1713, entered the Society, 

15 October, 1731 : was employed for a con- 
siderable time in the Maryland JMission, 
where he made the Profession of the 4 Vows 
22 July, 1740. Three years later I meet 
him in the Midland District of England. 
This unfortunate man, to secure the posses- 
sion of an estate, publicly apostatised in 
St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, on Sunday 

16 March, 1755. But he does not appear 
to have exercised any ecclesiastical function 
for the remainder of his life. 

Archdeacon, Richakd, was born in 
Kilkenny in 1619. He was admitted into 
the Society of Jesui at Mechlin, at the age 
of 23, and io due time was enrolled among 
the professed Fathers of the Order. After 
teaching Humanities for six years, and Phi- 
losophy, Moral Divinity, and Scripture for 
a very long period, chiefly at Louvain and 
Antwerp, he died in the last mentioned 
city, about the year 1690, according to 
Harris (p. 263, Writers of Ireland,) We 
have from the pen of this Rev. Father : — 

4. " A Treatise on Miracles," written 
in English and Irish, 8vo. Louvain, 1667. 
In the Annual Letters of Ireland of 1673, 
mention is made of a book, queiti de S. Xa- 
verii miraculis edidit Anylice P. Richar- 
dus Archdekin. 

2. Theologia Tripartita Universa.'' 
8vo. Louvain, 1671. During the Author's 
life this useful work was frequently re- 
printed. 



3. " Vitee et Miraculorum S. Patricii 
Epitome." 8vo. Louvain, 1671, I am un- 
able to describe the book : but a copy at 
the sale of Mr. Bradish's Library, in the 
summer of 1829, was disposed of by Jones, 
Trinity street, Dublin, for eight Guineas. 

Archer, Edward. — I find by his letter, 
dated London, 27 November, 1640, that by 
favor of the Venetian Embassador, he had 
s afely arrived in England. In the report 
of Pere Verdier, (the Visitor of the Irish 
Mission, S. J.) dated 24 June, 1649, I 
find F. Edward Archer was then Superior 
of his brethren at Ross, County of Wex- 
ford, and commendable for his religious 
merits. When or where he died I hav9 
searched for in vain. 

Archer, James. — In page 301, History 
of British Costume (Library of Entertain- 
ing Knowledge,) is a delineation of O'More, 
an Irish Chieftain, and Archer, a Jesuit 
retained by him, both copied from a map of 
the taking of the Earl of Ormond in 1600, 
ihe Rev. Father is dressed in a black man- 
tle, and wears the high crowned hat of the 
time. 

I read in a Report or Memorial of Irish 
Affairs, addressed by Captain Hugh Mos- 
tian to Lewis Mansoni, the Papal Nuncio 
for Ireland, towards the latter end of Q. 
Elizabeth's reign, " Umts Pater Arche- 
rus major fuit illis (Hibernis) consola- 
tioy qnam potuit esse magna milittim co- 
pia. Testis sum illius prtesentiam tan^ 
turn pro/uisse, ut vix aliud tantum : ad 

3 K. 



232 



ipsius enim Nutum uniuntur et tenentuvj 
cor da hominum, non solum in territorio 
Bderhaven et Provincice Australis ; sed 
et in majori parte totius RegniJ' " Fa- 
ther Archer alone was a greater comfort to 
his Irish countrymen ihan even a consider- 
able reinforcement of troops. I am a wit- 
ness, that his presence was almost more 
serviceable to the cause than any thing 
else : for at his nod the hearts of men were 
united and bound together, not only in the 
district of Beeihaven and Munster, but in 
the greater part of the «hole kingdom." 

A few of F.Archer's letters have been 
fortunately preserved. The first is dated 
from the Camp, 10 Aug., 1598. He states 
the difficulty of all Epistolary communica- 
tion — the intense anxiety and diligence of 
the Government to apprehend him; inso. 
much, that he was obliged to live generally 
in the woods and secret places " ila ut in 
sylvis et latebris ut plurimum degam," 
Still he never ceased from exercising the 
functions of his ministry — he had received 
two thousand general Confessions— he had 
instructed and confirmed many in the Faith, 
and reconciled several to the Catholic 
Church — that there was every prospect of 
an abundant harvest of souls, if he had some 
fellow- labourers ; and that the gentry in 
the North and South parts of the island were 
most desirous of a supply. It seems that 
he had been ordered to Ireland to procure 
assistance for the Irish Seminary at Sala- 
manca, " in subsidium Seminarii Hyb e- 
norum^'' and tha* he had succeeded in 
sending over several youths with funds for 
their education. In conclusion he says 
that he was intending to proceed by the first 
opportunity to Spain from the North of 
Ireland. Iter in llispaniam cogito prima 
occasione ex Septentrionali parte. 

N. B. 1 find by a letter of F. Richard 
Fields dated Dublin, 20 July, 1600, that 
he as Superior of the Irish Mission, had 
made F. J. Archer the actual bearer of that 
very letter to Rome. He recommends to 
hira Mr. Robert Lalour, qui se s&cium Hi- 
neris adjunxit Patri Jacobo (Archer.) 

The second letter is dated, Compostella, 
26 February, 1606. It proves his active 
industry in procuring donations for the pur- 
pose of educating his countrymen, as also 
his zeal for the conversion of souls. He 
had just reconciled to God and his Church 
three English merchants. 

Tha third letter to F. George Duras, the 
Assistant for Germany, is dated Madrid. 4 
■August, 1607. He was then living at 
Court, " Ego in aula versor" and had 
been successful in collecting Subscriptions. 

The fourth letter is to F. Duras, from 
Madrid, 29 September, 1607, and is only 
subscribed by F. Archer, who, from illness, 
*^ proB dolore pectoris," was obliged to 
employ a Secretary. He recommends the 
erection of an Irish Novitiate in Belgium. 
After treating of the business of the Irish 



Mission, he mentions '* the conversion of 
three Scotchmen at Madrid: one was so 
desperate a Puritan, as often to declare 
that not all the Doctors of the World 
should ever withdraw him from his sect and 
opinion. Truth, however, had conquered ; 
from a lion he became a lamb, and has cho- 
sen the life of a Capuchin Friar. I have 
others in hand in the suit of the English 
Ambassador, whom I will endeavour to 
reform." 

Further particulars of this Rev. Father I 
have not been able to collect. 

AsHTON, John, was born in Ireland 3 
May, 1742 ; was admitted in 1759: was 
chiefly employed in the Maryland Mission, 
where death terminated his zealous labors 
4 February, 1815, eet. 73. 

Austin, John, was born in Dublin 12 
April, 1717, and joined the Order in Cham- 
paigne, 27 November, 1735. Afier com- 
pleting the higher Studies, he was employed 
in teaching Humanities for several years. 
In 1750, he reached his native city, and ob- 
tained a reputation far talents in the pulpit. 
On 2 February, 1754, he was admitted to 
his religious Profession. 

This good Father, d} ing on Michaelmas 
day, 1784, was buried in St. Kevins 
Church-yard, Dublin. A plain stone monu- 
ment, of pyramidal form, stands over his 
grave; and the following inscription is 
read on the West and South Panels of the 
Pedestal. On the opposite sides there is 
the English Translation. 

Viro Reverendo 
Johanni Austin 
Dubiiniensi 

Societatis Jesu, dumfuit, Sacerdoti 
In Vinea Domini per annos 36, 
PiOj Docto, Indefesso Operario, 
Qui 

III Calendas Octobris, A. D. 1784 
j^latis anno sexto et sexagesimo 
Vitam 

Apostolicis confectam laboribus 
Cum morte 
In conspectu Domini pretiosS 
Commutavit 



Cippum Hunc 
Ministri fideiis Rtligio non immemor^ 
VI Idus Decembris, A, D. 1786 
Flens Posuit. 
Divites admonuit 
Pauperes sublevavit 
Juventntem erudivif 
Orphanis loco Parentis fuit 
De omni Homin um genere 
Prcectare meruit 
Omnibus omnia foetus 
Ut 

Omnes Christo lucrifoceret. 
Baker, Bernard, (vere Bramhall Ball,} 
was born in Ireland 16 August, 1698, was 
admitted into the Society at the age of 23,. 
and was raised to the rank of a Professed^ 



233 



Father, 2 Februarv, 1739. After teaching 
Humanities Bnd Philosophy, he was seat to 
London, and was appointed Rector of his 
Brethren in the College of St. Ignatius, an 
office which he filled till December, 1762. 
He died in London 27 July, 1772 ; another 
account says, incorrectly, February, 1773, 
as this death-bill proves : — 

MISEREMINL 
l7i Misstonibus PP. Anglorum Societatis 
JESU in Anylid. diem obiit extremum 
Dilectus nobis inChristo,P. Bernardus 
Baker, Mensis Julii, die 27, Anno cetatis 
74, Reliyionis 51, reparatce salutis 1772. 
Pro eujus animce refrigerio, Preces vest- 
ras ex charitate postulamus, 

Reqidescat in pace. 

Barnewall, Edward. This Father 
was Penitentiary at Loretto late in 1614. 
His Superior, F. Christopher Holiwood, 
recommended to the General, Claudius 
Aquaviva, to call him to Rome as Agent 
for the Irish Mission, as he had a good 
opinion of his zeal and distinction. 

Barnewall, John. I find by F, 
Richard Baton's letter from Bordeaux, 13 
January, 1615, that F. Barnewall was then 
detained in that city by illness, and unfit to 
proceed to the Mission, where his services 
were much wanted. But seven years later 
I find him called to Ireland. 

Barnwall, Patkick, was born at Bre- 
more, in the County of Dublin, 10 October, 
1709, and embraced the Institute of St. 
Ignatius, at Coimbra, 9 November, 1726. 
He began to serve the Irish Mission in 
1741, and was raised to the rank of a Pro- 
fessed Father in 1750. For several years 
he was stationed at Preston in Lancashire, 
where he opened St. Mary's Chapel, about 
the year 1760, and died there shortly after ; 
viz., 1 February, 1762, 

Baron, Nicholas, was born at Fethard, 
Munster, 16 January, 1720, and entered 
the Society ia the Province of Seville, 5 
January, 1741. Nine years later he was 
sent to the Irish Mission, where Clonmel 
was the field of his labours for some time. 
He survived the suppression of the Society 
and died at Cork.* and was buried at Up 
Shandon, 

BARaow, John. In aletter of F.Thorpe, 
dated Rome, 22 February, 1774, I find 
mention of a young Irish Jesuit of the 
name of liarron, of the Roman Province, 
who had just been placed in the Scotch Col- 
lege at Rome to teach Poetry and Rhetoric." 

At the death of F. Paul Power, Parish 
Priest of St. Patrick's, Waterford, he suc- 
ceeded him in that living in 1795, and con- 

♦ A pardonable inattentioa to the keeping of 
Records and Registers arose in turbulent times, 
when the Discovery might prove fatal to the Pos- 
sessor, or the parties therein mentioned ; but the 
terror of Penal Statutes long survived their force 
and operation, and unfortunately the habit of neg- 
lect became generally inveterate. Hence the im- 
portance 'of preserving fragments and traditions, 
lest they perisk. 



tinned to administer that charge until his 
death three years later, viz, 13 September, 
1798, aet. 49. 

Bath, James. He was in the Castille 
Province in 1686, as I find in a letter of 
20 February, 1686, and was applied for to 
serve the Irish Mission. 

Bath, John. — This Father was living in 
Drogheda, when the Town was stormed by 
the Cromwellian Forces. His house was 
given up to plunder, and the good Jesuit, 
with his Brother, a worthy Secular Clergy- 
man, was conducted into the Market place, 
and both were deliberately shot by the 
Soldiers, 16 August, 1649. See Mat. Tan- 
ner's Lives, pp. 138-9. 

Bath, Robert. In 1624, he had been 
settled for about two years at Drogheda, 
where he instituted the Sodality of the B. 
Virgin Mary. lie was thrice sent to Rome 
for the good of the Irish Mission. Worn 
out with age and infirmity, he died at Kil- 
kenny, 15 June, 1649, set, 68, Rel. 46. 

Bath, William, a native of Dublin. 
After studying at Oxford he grew weary 
of heresy, and retiring to the Continent en^ 
tered the Novitiate at Tournay, in 1596. 
When he had finished his studies at Padua, 
he was ordered to Spain, and appointed 
Rector of the College of his Countrymen at 
Salamanca. To the regret of all who knew 
his merits, he was prematurely taken oflf by 
illness at Madrid, 17 June, 1614, aet. 48. 
He has left :— 

1. " An introduction to the Arte of 
Music*' 4to. liondon, 1584. 

2. Janua Linguarum.^* 4to. Salaman- 
ca, 1611. 

3. " A Spanish Treatise on the Sacra- 
ment of Penance." N.B. This was edit- 
ed at Milan by F. Jos. Cresswell, in 1614. 

4. " Instructions on the Mysteries of 
Faith, in English and Spanish,*' F. 
More in p, 112 of his Hist. Prov. Angl. has 
inserted a letter of F.W. Bath in praise 
of F. Person's Christian Directory." 

•Bennett, Michael, a Temporal Coad- 
jutor who died 6 October. 1829. 

Berrill, Peter, was born at Leinster, 
29 October, 1712, and entered the Society 
at Palermo, 23 December, 1732. Sixteen 
years later he returned to his native Country 
as a Missionary, and was admitted to the 
solemn profession of the Four Vows, 2 
February, 1754. The year after I find him 
an assistant to a Parish Priest in Kildare. 

Betagh, Thomas, born at Kells. This 
very Rev. Father and Vicar General of the 
Archdiocess of Dublin, entered into his rest 
in the Irish Metropolis, 16 Feb. 181 1, 8et.73. 
The vast attendance of Citizens and Clergy 
at his Funeral Obsequies at St. Michan was 
a public testimony to his worth and chari* 
ty. His monument was to be seen in the Old 
Chapel, Rosemary Lane, and now in the New 
Chapel of SS. Michael and John, Lower Ex- 
change Street, Dublin, on the Epistle side of 
the Altar. The inscription is as follows ; — 



2S4 



" Glory to God, most good, most great^ 
"This Marble, 
Christian Brother, presents to your view, the likesess of 
The Very Rev. THOMAS BETAGH, S.J. 
(Vicar-General of the Archdiocess of Dublin,) 

AND DURING MORE THAN TwENTY YbARS 

the excellent and most vigilant Pastor of this parish, 
who glowing with Charity towards God and his Neighbour, 
WAS ever indefatigable in his Ministry, 
teaching, preaching, and exerting all his powers 
TO confirm the true Christian in 'the faith once delivered to the Saints,* 

AND to bring back THE STRAYING INTO THE WAYS OF SaLVATION. 

His CHIEF delight and happiness it was 
to instruct the young, especially the Needy and the Orphan, 
IN Religion, Piety, and Learning, 

AND to forward AND CHERISH THEM WITH AFFECTION TRULY PATERNAL. 
His ZE4L FOR the salvation of souls continued TO burn with undiminished ARDOUR. 

until the last moment of his life, 
when worn down by lingering illness, and incessant labours, 
this good and faithful servant delivered up his soul to god 
in the year of his age, 73, and of our redemption, 1811. 
May he rest in peace. 

To this MOST DESERVING MaN, THE OrNAMEXT OF IIIS PRIESTHOOD AND HIS 

Country, 

The Clergy and People of Dublin who attended his Funeral, 
with most mournful solemnity and unexampled concourse, 
have erected this monument as a lasting memorial of their love and 

gratitude." 



N.B. Brocas has engraved the Portrait 
of this Apostolical Father, whose name is 
still synonymous in Dublin, with Learning, 
Piety, Zeal, and Piiilanlhropy.* 

Birmingham, John. In 1649, this Rev. 
Father was an Octogenarian, and in high 
repute for sanctity, ** vir plane Sanctus." 
Incapable of active service, he was then 
Uviug with his family in the Co. Galway. 

Birmingham, Nicholas. Hesometimes 
passed by the name of Darcy. He was 
born 26 November, 1721, and entered the 
Order at Bordeaux, al the age of 19. After 
finishing his studies and teaching Humani- 
ties for six years, he was sent to the Mis- 

• In the Freeman's Jouraal of 17 October, 1815, 
13 the following description of the Monument . 
" DR. BETAGH's MONUMENT. 

" The Monument erected to the Memory of the 
late Rev. Dr. Betagh, in the Chapel of St. Michael 
and St. John, was on Sunday opeued for public in- 
spection. It was executed by Turnerelli, of Lon- 
don, who is, we understand, a native of Ireland. 
The composition of this elegant piece of Sculpture, 
consists of two figures in beautiful statuary mar- 
ble ; the one a female, representing religion in a 
pensive attitude, with the usual symbol of redemp- 
tion, the cross ; the other, an orphan, whom reli- 
gion seems to protect, and who is resting on an urn 
that stands between them. The Boy's countenance 
is expressive of that sorrow, natural to the impres- 
sion on the mind, when a benevolent protector no 
longer exists. So far the group is connected ; but 
the Medallion of the deceased, attached to the Py- 
ramid of black marble, appears at the top, and this 
rests on a plinth, supported by fluted pilasters, with 
the inscription title in the centre. Much simplicity 
of character pervades the whole of this specimen of 
art, at the same time the recollection of departed 
worth, and its grateful tribute, are well sustained 
by the chaste power of the chisel. And every per- 
son of taste will rejoice, that the calm delights of 
science are not totally extinguished in this country. 



sion, and in that capacity was employed i'^ 
Galway. But his course was short ; fo"" 
eight years Jater — viz, 30 June, 1758, he 
was called to receive the reward of his la- 
bours. 

BouRGOYNE, William, All that I dis- 
cover of this Father is that he was born in 
1618 ; that in 1649, he was teaching Gram- 
mar at Waterford, and that he deserved the 
Character of " vir prudenlice vere Beli^ 
gioscB." 

BoYTON, William, We know little 
more of this Father than that he was bar- 
barously murdered by the Parliamentary 
troops, at the talking of Cashell, 13 Sept. 
1647. 

Brennan, Thomas, of Dublin, was born 
20 December, 1708, and entered the Roman 
Province of the Society, 1 January, 1725. 
Returning to Ireland after completing his 
studies, and being admitted to the Profes- 
sion of the Four Vows, he was employed 
in otie of the Parishes of Dublin, for nearly 
ten years, and gained distinction as a 
Preacher. Ke was called to Rome in 1754, 
to govern the Irish Seminary in that City. 
At the expiration of his Superiority, he 
became aggregated to the English Province, 
was appointed to a Alission in Derbyshire, 
and was declared Rector of his Brethren, in 
the College of the immaculate Conception 
of Our Lady, 6 June, 1769. He was cerr 
tainly living at Bllborough in Lincolnshire 
in 1772 ; but died in Derbyshire, shortly 
after the Suppression of his Order ; but 
the exact date I cannot procure, 

Brennan, William. He left Rome in 
the Summer of 1603, and was sent to the 



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Irish Mission in 1604. It is painful to be 
unable to follow out the biography of men 
of whom the world was not worthy ; but if 
human records have perished, we are comfor- 
ted with the thought, that their names are 
written in Heaven. 

Brian, J aspbr, was a Novice at Water- 
ford, in 1648, *' bonce voluntatis J' Ha 
died af Waterford of the plague, 83 August, 
1650. 

Brien, O' Peter, was born 28 March, 
1735, and entered the Novitiate at Watten, 
7 September, 1754, after defending Philoso- 
pby with great credit. On 2 Feb., 1770, 
he was admitted to the profession of the 
Four Vows. For ten years he laboured 
in the West Indies, chiefly in Antigua, 
where he won the esteem and affection 
of all classes ; but declining health com- 
pelling him to visit England, he settled 
himself in 1800 at Newhall, Essex, where 
the venerable Father rendered his soul to 
God, in July 1807, or as another account 
informs me, 28 February, that year. 

• Brien, O' Terence, In this lay- 
brother were united superior talents, as a 
carpenter andbuilde;, with singular modes- 
ty and humility. He superintended in 
great part the erection of the beautiful 
Church of St. Francis Xavier In Dublin, and 
was thus employed till, seized with Cholera, 
he was called, 9 July, 1832, to the Taber- 
nacles not made with hands, eternal in 
Heaven. 

Brown, Ignatius. There were two Fa- 
thers of this name. The senior was born at 
Waterford in 1630, and after studying a 
course of Philosophy at Compostella, there 
enrolled himself at the age of 21, amongst 
the children of St. Ignatius. In a letter of 
F.St. Leger, dated Compostella, 16 Janu- 
ary, 1G63, I read, " Towards the beginning 
of Spring, F. Andrew Sail* and F. /^na- 

* This unfortunate man was born at Cashell, in 
1612, and at the age of 23 Joined the Society in 
the English Province. In 1642 ho was studying 
the fourth year of Theology at Liege College. Re- 
turning to Ireland, he so conducted himself as to 
be reported to the General of the Order, by Pere 
Verdler, who had met him in the course of his Visi- 
tation at Cashell, as " valde bonus et candidi ant- 
mi." When the Parliamentary supplanted the 
Royal Authority, in Ireland, and manyof the Regu- 
lar and Secular Clergy fled frojn their savage perse- 
cutors, F. Sail remained behind, and did good 
service to Religion, chiefly at Waterford. But, at 
lepgth, he was hunted out by the Priest Catchers, 
From his own letter I learn, that after saying Mass, 
he was apprehended 22 January, 1658, in the house 
ofarespectablewidow in Waterford. After thirteen 
months imprisonment, he was discharged from jail 
at the intercession of the Portuguese Embassador; 
but condemned to perpetunl exile. He reached 
JVantz in June, 1659, and was certainly there with 
P Thomas ^uiw, 24 February, 1660 Subsequently 
he went to Spain, and returned to Ireland in 1663. 
A letter olF. Nicholas Netterville, a Jesuit of su- 
perior merit, to P'r. J. P. Ollva, dated Amiens, 8 
February, 1667. satisfies me that F. Sail must 
have resisted many graces and warnings, before ho 
publicly abjured the Catholic Faith In his native 
City. 17 May, 1674. F. Stephen Rico the Superior 
In Ireland, after stating to the said General the Joy 
alTordei to the Irish Mission by the erection of the 

3 L. 



tius Brown are to leave this Province for 
the Irish Mission. Both are learned, zeal- 
ous, and duly qualified." The Annual Let- 
ters shew that he, with FF. Maurice Cor- 
nell and Robert Mead formed a glorious 
Triumvirate— that he excelled as a powerful 
and indefatigable preacher — a son of 
Thunder at Cork, at Drogheda. and other 
towns in Ireland, His zeal made him seve- 
ral enemies: he was threateneil with im- 
prisonment and exile ; l»ut he was superior 
to fear, and he steadily persevered in the 
exercise of his Apostolic functions, until 
the summer of 1673, when the state of his 
health obliged him to go to England for the 
benefit of the Hot Baths. In the early part 
of November, the same year, he proceeded 
to Paris, where by his active industry, and 
the influence of Pere Ferrier, Confessor to 
Louis XIV, and by the generosity of friends, 
especially Catharine, Queen of Charles II, 
he procured in the year following Letters 
patent for the erection of an Irish House of 
Studies at Poiclieis: and he was appointed 
its first Rector. His death happened lata 
in the year 1679, at Valkdolid, on his way 
to Madrid, where he had been appointed 
Confessor to her Majesty the Queen of Spain. 
We have from the sprighty pen of this Fa- 
ther. — 

1. The Unerring and Unerrable 
Church," (in reply to a sermon of Andrew 
Sail, preached at Christ's Church, Dublin, 
5 July, 1674,) 8vo. 1675, pp 310. 

2. An Unerrable Church or None," 
8vo. 1678, pp.342. 

3. Pax Vobis, It seems that the MS. 
had been left with the English Fathers. 
The General of the Society, Charles de 
Noyelle, l.ad heard of it, and 13 March, 
1683, gave directions to the English Provin- 
cial, F. John Keynes, to report to him an 
opinion of its merits. His answer is dated 
Ghent, 23 September, following. In sending 
the judgment of those who had examined 
" the posthumous work of F. Ignatius 
Brown, written in English, entitled Pax 
Vobis," he says ' All united in admiring 
the vein of humour that pervades the work ; 
but thought the publication inexpedient, ta- 

ijew Seminary at Poictiers, observes, that their joy 
was elouded by the fall of this Brother, ifte first in- 
stance of apostacy of an Irish Jesuit. He adds that 
F. Sail had grown weary of the vows of poverty — 
had studied self-ease— had been addicted to vain 
glory, and much too fond of popular applause. 
Heresy sliowcred on the miserable old man a pro- 
fusion of titles and Church Preferments, of all which 
death deprived him, 6 April, 1682, " Si Sal infat- 
uatumfuerit.^c. If the salt have lost its savour, 
it is good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden 
under the foot of men. Yet in Peter IValsh he 
found an Advocate, if not an Admirer. 

We may remark, that Harrii' account of this poor 
Renegade may. In many respects, be refuted by 
original documents, now extant. 

A letter to me from the learned William Talbot, 
Esq, dated Rocklands, Wexford, 12 April, 1834, 
says " The Renegade Sail, In his last moments 
called for a Catb, clergyman, but none were allowed 
to see him." 



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king all circumstances into consideration. 
F. Keynes, after reading tiie work, coin - 
cided in tlieir opinion. It has since been 
frequently printed. It was edited however 
by E. G. in 1679, the year of the Author's 
death : and a fifth edition appeared in 
1742. 

Another Pax Vobis, an epistle to the 
Three Churches, a small octavo of 141 pp. 
printed in London in 1721, is said by tlie 
Rev. Dr. Kirk, p. 80, Vol. V. Catholicon, 
to have had Dodd, the Historian, for its 
Author. 

Brown, Ignatius, tlie junior, entered 
the Society in 1677, and left Poictiers for 
the Castile Province 10 September, 1698. I 
read in a letter of F. Ant. Knowles, dated 
Ross, 6 April, 1714, " Tempore bellorum 
et perseculionis, missiin exilium in eo' 
que mortuisunt P. P. Bernardus Kiernan 
et Ignatius Brown, duo pii et inculpabiles 
viri.'* 

Brown, Stephen, was Sexagenario 
Major" in 1648, and living with his Family 
in the County of Galway. His Brother 
was a Baronet. *The Rev. Father was 
highly respected for his Religious spirit." 

Burke, Richard, nephew to Dr John 
Burke, Archbishop of Tuam, joined the 
Order in Spain, where I meet him in Jan- 
uary, 1659. On 20 January, 1670, he 
reached Dublin as Superior of his BB. in 
Ireland, then 36 in number. After 20 May, 
1679, when he was out on bail and daily ex- 
pecting banishment, I lose sight of him. 
He is described as a religions, prudent, 
affable Superior, and a general favorite. 

Burke, Thomas, was of a good family, 
and entered the Society in 1606. F.Ver- 
dier reports of him that he was an excellent 
Classic Scholar— that he had been Professor 
of Polemic Divinity, and was famed at 
Limerick, where he was settled, as a 
Preacher — and that he had reconciled many 
to the Catholic Church. After the summer 
of 1649, I can trace him no longer. 

Burke, William, was born 5 September, 
1711, and entered the Novitiate at Watten 
12 April, 1731. After teaching a course of 
Humanities at St. Omer,he was sent to 
the English Mission, where he died in the 
prime of life, 27 March, 1746. 

Butler, James, after studying Human- 
ities at Stonyhurst, he proceeded with a 
band of choice youths (who were destined 
to replant the standard of St. Ignatius in 
Ireland) to Palermo ^ where he went through 
a course of Philosophy and Divinity. In 
1814, this highly gifted young man returned 
to his native country, with tho diploma of 
Dr. of Divinity, to take a prominent part 
ia the organization of Clongowes College, 
Here his classical attainments, his varied 
learning, but, above all, the example of his 
religious virtues, insured universal esteem 
and admiration. But a pulmonary com- 
plaint was undermining his constitution : 
and to the grief of every friend of genius 



and religion, the lamp of life was extin- 
guished 22 August, 1821. Two days later, 
a train of sorrowing friends and admirers 
followed his remains to the grave in Main- 
ham Church, adjoining the demesne of 
Clongowes College. The following extract 
of a letter which I received from his Col- 
league, F. Bartholomew Esmonde, will in- 
terest and edify the. reader. 

•* The lamented F. Butler died, I may 
say, in my arms, in his twenty-ninth year, 
" dilectus Deo et hominibus," What a 
rare association of learning, piety, and 
simplicity ! the Octave of the Assumption 
of B. Virgin Mary was his last day upon 
earth. He had said Mass at Clongowes 
for the last time on the feast of theAssump- 
tion, and came up to Dublin the same day 
for change of air. In a day or two, it was 
evident that his dissolution was near at 
hand ; and as his strength declined, his 
piety seemed to increase. I shall never 
forget his last night, which I spent at his 
bed-side : it was a practical lesson how to 
die. Having demanded and received the 
last sacraments with tranquil unaffected 
piety, answering to all the Prayers, he fell 
into a slumber. At length awakening he 
gave me his hand, saying, 'Farewell, I am 
dying,' and then giving me some commis- 
sions,' he added ' I shall see Clongowes no 
more. Salute the community in my name : 
assure them of my sincerest affection.' Of 
his impending death he then spoke very 
calmly, asking me from time to time to re- 
peat a favourite Italian hymn by Blessed 
Ligouri in honour of the Virgin Mary. — 
O bella mia Speranza, 8fc. 

** This seemed to give him exquisite plea» 
sure. To my enquiry if he was quite hap- 
py, if any thing gave him pain, he an- 
swered, 'thanks to God and to the Madonna, 
I am perfectly happy and resigned.' 'But 
tell me,' I resumed, 'Dr. Father Butler, j'ou 
are younger than I am, and if restored to 
health, might do much good. Tell me then 
if the choice of life and death were left to 
you, which would you choose V He paused 
a moment, as if I had proposed a difficult 
question, then turning tome with a smile 
he said, 'If the choice were left to me I 
would make none ; but would leave it to 
God : for he knows what is best." In a few 
moments his strength was gone, and lisping 
the names of Jesus and Mary he expired. 

Who is there that does not envy such a 
death 1 

Butler, John, son of Thomas, 8th Lord 
Cahir,* by Frances, daughter of Sir Theo- 
bald Butler, was born 8 August, 1727 : em- 
braced the pious Institute of St. Ignatius in 
1745 ; and was ordained Priest at Liege in 
1753. This Rev. Father lived to inherit 
the title of Lord Cahir, and died at Here- 
ford 20 June, 1786. 

• On 22 January. 1816, Richard Baron Cahir was 
promoted to the dignity and title of Viscount Cahir 
and Earl Glengal in the County of Tipperary. 



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It is little known that this'humble Jesuit 
was postulated for Episcopacy . The facts 
are as follow : 

His kinsman, Dr. James Butler, Arch- 
bishop of Cashell, by letter dated Thurles, 
7 March, 1778, signified to him, that all the 
Prelates of Munster, except one, and many 
other Prelates of the kingdom had cast their 
eyes upon him, as the mo&t worthy person 
to fill the See of Limerick, vacant by the 
death of Dr. (Daniel) Kearney — that he 
hoped his humility would not bs alarmed : 
and that reading in their joint postulation 
the will of Almighty God, he would submit 
to the order of Providence, and resign him- 
self to a burthen which the divine grace 
would render light to him and advantageous 
to the Diocese he was invited to govern. 
To this communication F. Butler returned 
the annexed answer : 

Hereford, March 23, 1778. 
Honoured Sir, 
I received by the last Post your very 
friendly letter of the 7th insl. You will 
not easily conceive my confusion and un- 
easiness on reading its contents. How 
fl ittering soever the prospect of such an ho- 
nourable elevation may be, I should act a 
very bad part indeed if I did not decline the 
proffer of such an important station, 
thoroughly conscious of ray incapability, 
and want of every requisite quality to ex- 
ecute the duties of such an office. I there- 
fore most earnestly beg, and by every sa- 
cred motive entreat you, and the other re- 
speclable Prelates, will entirely drop all 
application to his Holiness in behalf of my 
succeeding to the See of Limerick, as I am 
determined, by most cogent reasons, to op- 
pose such a design by every respectful 
means in my power. 1 request the favor 
of you to convey in the most grateful and 
respectful manner, my sincerest thanks to 
all who have been pleased to entertain so 
favourable an opinion of me, and hope you 
will believe me to be, Hond. Sir, 

Your most 

John Butler. 

The good Archbishop, in his reply, bear- 
ing the Cashell Post mark of April 4, 1778, 
informs him that the Postulation had been 
sent to Rome — that it was " backed by the 
signatures of 3 Archbps. and 12 Bps. of Ire- 
land, by the Roman CatholicPeerage of Ire- 
land, by the united letters of the Nuncios of 
^aris and Brussels, of the First President 
of the Parliament of Paris, and of Monsieur 
de Vergennes, Ministre des affaires etran- 
geres, to Monsieur de B' rnis j and to crown 
all, by the letters of your most worthy Pre- 
late, Dr. Walraesley, in your favor." His 
Grace conjures him ** not to hesitate to 
make a sacrifice of his own private ease and 
tranquillity to promote more advantageously 
in a more exalted state, the glory of God, 
and the welfare of this poor and afflicted 
Church, and expresses a belief that, when 
the necessity of acquiesence is so manifest, 



the Rev. Father would never forgive him- 
self for the fatal consequences that would 
ensue to Religion from his refusal. The 
whole of his Grace's letter, is most earnest 
and moving ; and to conquer the Father's 
repugnance, he engaged Dr. Wm Egan, 
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to ex- 
postulate with him. He did so in the fol- 
lowing beautiful letter : — 
Honoured Sir, 
I have shared with my much esteemed 
friend, and respected Metropolitan, his 
Grace of Cashel, in the uneasiness which 
your letter gave him ; and I must beg leave, 
both from my own inclination, and at his 
earnest request, to expostulate with you 
upon the subject of it. By letters which 1 
have just received from Rome, there is no 
doubt left me of your being appointed to 
succeed in the See of Limerick, and that in 
a manner very honourable to you, and to 
us, notwithstanding a violent opposition as 
well in behalf of other Candidates, as on 
account of your particular circumstances. 
The propaganda rejected you as an Ex- 
Jesuit, — but his Holiness in attention to 
the earnest application, which the Prelates 
of this Province in particular, as well as 
others, thought it for the interest of Religion 
to make in your favor, over-ruled the deter- 
mination of the Propaganda, and nam- 
ed you, — All this seems to bespeak, that 
what we so anxiously engaged in, was 
comformable to the Will of God j He has 
been graciously pleased to bless with suc^ 
cess our endeavours ; we were influenced to 
employ them, from no other motive, than our 
persuasion, that you being of our Prelacy, 
would promote his holy service amongst us; 
the measure had the ardent wishes of all 
the respectable Catholicks of this kingdom 
for its success j I know from ray Lord 
Cahir, that this was particularly wished 
for by him, and that it was equally wished 
for by the rest of your family. I hope 
therefore, that you will not attempt to give 
the least oppostition, to what appears, from 
all these concurrent circumstances, to have 
been the disposition of heaven ; — no timid- 
ity from your supposed personal disability, 
no private attachment to a less publick 
station, no friendly connexions formed 
elsewhere, but should give way to the call 
of the Almighty, so manifestly made known 
to you on this occasion. To judge other- 
wise would be only the illusion of self-love, 
and I am so convinced of this, that I pro- 
nounce without hesitation to you, that you 
cannot with a safe conscience decline, how- 
ever reluctant you may feel yourself, to 
submit to the charge which you are called 
upon to undertake. Had the Society to which 
you once belonged still subsisted, though 
you could not have sought for an Ecclesias- 
tical Dignity, yet you must have considered 
yourself conscientiously oblidged to accept 
of one oven at the extremities of the earth, if 
you had been duly commanded ; you wouldin 



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ihat case have justly considered the com- 
mand, as the voice of God, which you 
ought not to resist ;— The voice of God 
seems to bs equally forcible upon you now ; 
you have not sought after the dignity which 
you are invited to, and if you had sought 
after it, it might be reasonably suspected 
that your vocation to it was not from God, 
— but can you. Sir, doubt a moment, but 
that your' vocation to the Episcopacy, 
which you never thought of aspiring to, 
is from God, when you are appointed to 
it by the Vicar of Christ ; when you have 
been postulated for it, by the united un- 
biassed voices of so many Prelates ? I think 
you cannot reasonably, and that you 
would judge with regard to another, es I 
do with regard to you, were you consulted 
in similar circumstances. I will own to 
you, that whilst I rejoice, and you I think 
ought to acquiesce, in our success, from the 
advantage, which at this most critical mo- 
ment for religion amongst us, your nomina- 
tion will be of to it, from your family and 
your connexions, to say nothing of your per- 
sonal qualifications, which I with pleasure 
hear well spoken of, by those who know you ; 
at the same time I say, that 1 rejoice in our 
success, from these motives, there is another 
motive, which ought to make it particularly 
acceptable to you : it is, that in you, the 
diflSculty which it might be feared, would 
have continued to prevail against those 
who had been members of the Society, 
hath been happily, and for the first time, I 
believe, in en occasion of this sort, gotten 
over. Do not then, my dear Sir, disap- 
point ray hopes : lend yourself resignedly 
and cheerfully to the designs of the Almigh- 
ty upon you ! With the same earnestness 
with which we have struggled for your 
promotion, we will give you all the assis* 
tance in our power, all the assistance that 
you can expect from our knowledge 
and experience of things here, to render 
your new dignity easy and comfortable to 
you. You may depend upon everj Friend- 
ship from our good Archbishop, from Dr. 
Butler, of Cork, from me, from us all. In 
a word ! we will have but one heart, 
but one view, to promote the glory of God 
and the peace, happiness, salvation of our 
poor people The Diocese to which you 
are appointed, is one of the moat respect- 
able in the kingdom, particularly from the 
consequence, opulence, and number of edi» 
fying Catholicks in the City of Limerick, 
which may be reckoned among the foremost 
in the British Dominions, for its elegance, 
riches, trade, and situation; it is but a 
short, and most charming ride of five and 
twenty miles from Cahir : but these last are 
bat secondary and human motives : I lay 
my main stress with you on the glory of 
God, on the salvation of souls, on the ends 
of your Ministry, on the good of Religion; 
and to these motives, surely, every advan- 
tage of birth, influence, and talents, 



with which it hath pleased God to bless 
you, should be made subservient! You 
will excuse my writing thus freely to you ; 
— besides that my station entitles me to in- 
terfere in a matter, wherein the cause ot re- 
ligion appears to me to be so essentially 
concerned— in a matter wherein I took so 
active a part, I claim a sort of a right 
with regard to you, to do it, as Bishop of 
your native Diocess, and from the sincere 
respect I have for ray Lord Cahir, and 
all his noble family. His Lordship is 
shortly expected here, at farthest some 
time in the next month, and as he will 
make England, where I suppose him to be 
actually on his way home, I hope that you 
will accompany him hither* I flatter my- 
self, that I shall have the pleasure of wel- 
coming you amongst as, at the same time 
that I will pay my respects to his lordship, 
I pray in the mean lime to be remembered 
to him, and to the Honorable Mr. Butler 
with the most respectful attention, I shall 
say no more to you, 1 need say no more to 
yout the Grace and inspiration of that 
good God, who gave you to our wishes 
will, I trust, do the rest with you. 
1 am with all affection and respect. 
Honoured Sir, 
Your most obedt. and Most humble Servt. 

Wm. Egan. 
My address, if you will honour me with 
a letter, is To 

Dr. Egan, 

Clonmel, Ireland. 
To these appeals the Rev. Father begged 
leave to expess his surprise that such a 
transaction had been carried on without 
the least previous intimation to him, adding 
" As matters stand, I must sacrifice my 
tranquillity and happiness in a private 
station, or subject myself by an opposition 
to perhaps the severest reflections. Cruel 
dilemma ! Let those then take the blame, 
who have any ways concurred in such a 
choice. All left me to do, is to submit to 
the will of others, I resign myself therefore 
into your friendly hands, on whom I depend 
fer every assistance. But please to take 
particular notice, that my submission and 
resignation are on this condition, that 
whenever the Society of Jesus be restored, 
I shall be at full and perfect liberty to re- 
enter the same, and retire again to my 
College, the seat of virtue and real hap- 
piness." 

On 25 April, the Archbishop informed 
him, that the Sac. Cong, had confirmed on 
the 29th ult. the choice of the Prelates 
" and all that is wanting to complete our 
happiness, is to see you safely arrived in 
this kingdom to take possession of the See 
you are named to. I hope you will not de- 
lay on the receipt of this. Let nothing 
alarm you • A Domino factum est istud.' 
Your submission to the Orders of Provi- 
dence will assure to you every assistance 
from heaven." 



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In May the Rev. Father left England 
for Ireland, in company with his brother 
Lord Cahir. The Archbishop, 31 May, 
addressed him a note at Cahir Castle of 
congratulation, promised to wait upon him 
as soon as possible, and announced the re- 
ceipt of a letter from Mr. Conwey, Vicar 
Capitular of Limerick, assuring him that 
he would meet with the most pleasing re- 
ception there, both from the Clergy and 
Laity — and that all ranks of People were 
most impatient for his arrival amongst 
them. 

On the 10th July, 1778, the Archbishop 
announced that the Bulls so long expected 
were arrived, and had been forwarded to 
him from Paris the preceding' week ; but 
that an indispensable journey on his part, 
had prevented him from attending to them 
before. " I need not tell you the pleasure 
it gave me to receive them, and how ear- 
nestly I wish and hope, that the use which 
is to be made of them may tend to ad- 
vance the glory of God and the good of the 
Diocess of Limerick." But the arrival of 
the Bulls served only to distress the hum- 
ble Priest, and to decide him on declining 
the proffered dignity. In a meek, most cour- 
teous and respectful letter, he cordially 
thanked the Archbishop for the distin- 
guished zeal and interest he had taken for 
his promotion ; but that he could not make 
up his mind to accept the heavy responsibi- 
lity." 1 decline the proffered honor, because 
I reaUy think myself incapable of fulfilling 
the duties of such a station in the Church." 
In the following month, F. Butler returned 
to Hereford, to the great exultation of his 
numerous and very attached acquaintance. 
We may apply to this good man the Text, 

Ante lempus finis vitse suae et sseculi 
testimonium prsebuii inconspectu Domini, et 
non accusavit illurahomo CEccli. 46 c, 22v." 
And how much happier than his Rt Revd. 
Kinsman Lord Dunboyne, Bp. of Cork, 
and afterwards Abp. of Cashel, who from 
worldly pride read his recantation in Clon« 
mel Church, 19 August, 17871 Who knows 
but that the humble prayers of this saintly 
Jesuit, may have contributed to obtain for 
this unfortunate prelate the grace of repent- 
ance, and of a happy death in May, 1800. 

Butler, Thomas, was born 20 Novem- 
ber, 1718, commenced his Noviceship at 
Watten, 7 September, 1739, and was Pro- 
fessed in the Order 2 February, 1757* 1 
am informed that he had been Minister of 
Clermont College at Paris : afterwards ha 
was in Spain, and was there involved in the 
expulsion of his Brethren, 4 April, 1767. 
F. Thomas Butler died at Eign, adjoining 
Hereford, (where the Chapel probably was, 
before the housein Bye-street was purchased) 
4 May, 1779. For a short period he had 
resided at Home Lacy, a seat of the late 
Duke of Norfolk, about five miles distant 
from Hereford. 

Byrne, Felix. He was serving in the 

3m. 



French Province in the Spring of 1712, and 
was recommended as a fit person to govern 
the College at Poictiers. 

Byrne, Milo. I find by F. Walt. 
Lavelin^s letter of 1 January, 1713, that 
this Father was preparing to quit the Col- 
lege at Poictiers for the Irish Mission. 

Callaghan, Richard, was born in 
1728. After studying for seven years in 
the English Seminary at Seville, he inlisted 
under the banner of St. Ignatius: and, I 
have been told, soon after his promotion to 
Holy Orders, was sent to the Mission in 
the Phillippine Islands, were he resided se- 
veral years, and was wounded on one occa- 
sion by the Savage Islanders, for his zealous 
labours in the Gospel. In November, 1771, 
as I ascertain from one of his letters, he re- 
turned to his native country, and, within 
two years, had to weep over the dissolution 
of the Society of Jesus. Yet he never lost 
hopes of its revival : and, to use his own 
words, he " ever ardently wished for the 
renovation of his Profession, and without 
any change of mind in this point." At the 
first news of its restoration he hurried to re- 
join his ancient colours. To him his coun- 
try and religion must ever be deeply 
indebted for his honourable and generous 
efforts for the education of youth, and the 
re-establishment of his Brethren. The Ve- 
nerable Patriarch died at 76, Upper Church- 
street, Dublin, 15 June, 1807, and was in- 
terred in the Chapel of St. George's hill, 
but without any inscription. " Semper 
hono$ nomenqiie tuum laudesque mane- 
hunt.''^ 

Cahberry, Ignatius, was a'Novice at 
Kilkenny in 1648. 

Carew, Richard. (I suspect of the 
ancient family of Carew, of Garryvoe, in 
the Barony of Imokilly) I find that he was 
recommended for a Ccnsultor by his Su- 
perior, Francis While, in a letter dated 
Kilkenny, 19 December, 1668. 

Carolan, John. In 1649, he was living 
at Galway, eet. 64, of which period he had 
passed twenty -four years in the Society; 
but was in Priest's Orders before his ad- 
mission. The good old man was literally 
hunted to death by the Cromwellian Myr- 
midons between the years 1652 and 1656, 
Though not actually taken by his inveterate 
and savage pursuers, he died of exhaustion 
and hunger. 

Carrick, (Cornelius. I meet him at 
Madrid in August, 1607. He is mentioned 
with honor in F. Fitzsimraon's Treatise on 
the Mass, 1611. 

Carroll, Anthony, was born 16 Sep- 
tember, 1722. He began his Noviceship at 
the age twenty -two, and was numbered 
among the Professed Fathers in 17C2, 
Shortly after his promotion to the Priesthood 
at Liege in 1754, he was ordered to the 
Mission. After exerting his zeal and ta- 
lents at Shepton Mallet, at Exeter, and 
some other places, he came to an untimely 



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end in London. On 5 September, 1794, he 
was knocked down and robbed in Red Lion 
Court, Fleet-street, and carried speechless 
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he 
died at one o'clock the following morning. 
— See Gent. Magazine, 1794, p. 1555. 

His translation of some of Bourdaloue's 
Sermons, under the title of " Practical 
Divinity," was published in 4 Vols. 8vo. 
London, 1776. 

Carholl, Charles. " Eifamilia no- 
bill antiquorum Hibernorum," as Pere 
Verdier expresses it in his Report of 24 
June, 164^. He was then in Galway, aged 
40,Soc. 22. When he died I cannot dis- 
cover. 

Carroll, Daniel, narrowly escaped 
being takea 5 September, 1606. 

Carroll, James, was born 5 August, 
1717. He joined the Order in 1741, and 
died in the Maryland Mission 12 November, 
1756. 

• C4RTAN, James, a most promising 
ScboJastic, who died in Dublin i7 March, 
1832, Soc. 4. St. 22. 

Cavell, Henry, is described as " Vir 
doetissimus et animarum zelo plenus^" 
He was apprehended in Dublin, dragged 
by soldiers from his sick bed though suf- 
fering from Palsy, severely scourged " vir- 
gis primum bene ccbsus," and then put on 
board a vessel with nineteen Religious and 
Priests, and landed at Rochelle. The 
Rector of the Jesuits' College there paid 
him every charitable attention, and by great 
care and the best medical advice, gradually 
succeeded in restoring him to a state of 
convalescence. As soon as he could, the 
Bev. Father hsstened to the scene of his 
former labors ; but within a few days after 
his return, early in 1643, fell a victim to 
his zeal and charity. F. G. Dillon says in 
a letter of 3 August, 1643, that he had en- 
countered a storm on his passage back which 
lasted twenty-one days. " Sic varus 
Christi Confessor obiit," 

Cawood, Michael, of Leinster, was 
born in 1708; joined the Order at Seville 
28 January, 172t>, and came to the Irish 
Mission twelve years later. He took his 
solemn Vows on St. Patrick's Day, 1742. 
For several years he assisted a Parish Priest 
in Dublin ; but further information I have 
been unable to procure. 

Chamberlain, Michael.— 1 meet with 
two Fathers of this name. The Senior is 
mentioned iu a letter of 22 November, 
1640, as having been sent " ad regia 
eastra" about two month's before. Again 
inF. Verdier's Report, dated 24 June, 1649, 
as being then Chaplain in a nobleman's 
family — that he was a Sexagenarian— a 
man of great integrity— and that there was 
question of appointing him Master of 
Novices. 

The Junior I find engaged at the com- 
mencement of James the Second's reign, 
with F. James Kelly and F. Hugh Thaly, 



in teaching a school in Dublin. They had 
twenty Pensioners, and a respectable Cha- 
pel recently* erected in that city. He 
was living in Ireland, but in secret, during 
the persecution in the Autumn of 1698. 

Clare, Edward, of Waterford. The 
first time that he comes across me is in a 
letter of F. Holywood, dated 30 June, 1604, 
in which he says, " I left behind at Paris 
studying Theology, Mr. Edward Clare." 
For many years he was Superior of his 
Brethren at Waterford; and when F. Ver- 
dier visited him, he found him almost su- 
perannnated. I learn from F. William 
Malone's letter, dated Galway, 2 August, 
1649, tbat F. Clare, the most ancient of the 
Professed in the Mission, died at Waterford 
on the preceding 19 July, " dierum et 
meritorum plenus." 

N B.— Anthony Wood and his copyists, 
Harris and Dodd, evidently confound this 
Father with his contemporary, F. John 
Clare. Had they turned to the conclusion of 
F.John Clare's admirable work, TAeConrer- 
ted Jew, they would find that he expressly 
calls himself an English Pryest. 

Clare, Oliver, is merely mentioned by 
name in F. Verdier's report, 24 June, 1649. 

Clery, Ferdinand, was certainly in 
the Thoulouse Province in the Spring of 
1686. His services were then petitioned 
for in Ireland. Probably he came over, 
and in the Revolutionary storm was driven 
back to the Continent. 

Clinch, James. This Patriarch of his 
Brethren was born in Leinster, and embra- 
ced the rule of St. Ignatius at Lyons, 12 
April, 1696. He came to the Irish Mission 
in 1708, and made his solemn Vows, 15 
August, 1713, The last thirty years of hi« 
life he spent as Domestic Chaplain loa 
family in Co. Kildare. His death took 
place 6 August, 1757, set. 92, Soc. 61. 

*CoGAN, Edmund, of Cork ; this devout 
Irish Scholastic died at Palermo of a putrid 
fever, 14 October, 1810. 

CoLGAN, Patrick, was born in Dublin, 
16 March, 1706, and joined the Society ii> 
the Venetian Province, U January, 1725. 
He came on the Irish Mission in 1741, and 
was Professed 2 February, 1752, at Dublin, 
where he was assisting a Parish Priest. I 
meet with him three years later, after which 
he escapes my observation. 

CoLGRAVE, Andrew, a native of Ireland j 
joined the Society in 1734: was numbered 
amongst the Professed Fathers 18 years 
later: taught Philosophy in the province of 
Campania: ended his days at Spetchley, in 
Worcestershire, 19 October, 1768, set. 51. 

Collins, Dominic, (his own signature 
spells the name Collensse) was of a good 
Irish Family, After embracing the military 
life, and spending as a Captain five years in 
the French, and eight years in the Spanish 
service, he began and finished his Noviceship 

♦ Sacellum satis insigne. 



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in the Jesuit's House at Compostella. I 
learn from an original letter of F, Richard 
Field, dated Dublin, 26 February, 1603, 
that this ill-advised Lay-brother accom- 
panied a Spanish expedition, which made 
a descent on the coast of Munster — that 
when these forces capitulated to the Lord 
Lieutenant, on certain conditions, and re- 
turn^ to Spain, Dominic, full of ancient 
military ardour, remained behind and re* 
paired to a Castle (Dunboyne) — that after 
a seige of some months it Avas taken by 
storm. Dominic was thrown into prison, 
and on 3 October, 1602, when he could not 
be induced by threats or promises to re- 
nounce his religious Institute, abjure the 
Catholic Faith, and support Queen Eliza- 
l)eth's claims to his allegiance, he was exe- 
cuted at Cork ( by Mountjoy ), cum 
summa omnium cedificatione, prosequen- 
te eum lachrymis tola pcene civitate Cor- 
cagiensi." Drews incorrectly fixes his 
death 31 October, 1604. In p. 34 of Brom- 
ley's Catalogue Engraved English 
Portraits^" is mentioned a small head of 
Dominic Collins, Jesuit, who died in 1602." 

Collins, William. In a letter of F. 
Robert Nugent, Superior of the Mission in 
Ireland, dated 1 October, 1640, he recom- 
mends for admission into the Novitiate at 
Rome, William Collins, born iu Ireland 
of English parents, and a youth of great 
promise. 

Comerford, James, died in exile, as I 
find in a letter of 6 April, 1714, insignis 
pietate." 

CoNAiN, Christopher. All that lean 
collect about him is from a letter, dated 2 
August, 1629, of F. William Malone, who 
reports that the Father, about three years 
ago, on first landing in Ireland, was appre- 
hended by the enemy, that he shortly after 
slipped from their hands, and that he was 
either massacred by them in the highway, 
or was drowned in some river, asisvarious- 
ly related 

CoNALD, Maurice, had recently arrived 
from Rome in the latter part of 1G48, and 
was stationed at Ross. 

Connell, James. From his own letter 
of 22 May, 1792, I collect that this Irish 
Father " had for the last 27 years been in 
Italy." F. Thorpe, who knew him well at 
Rome, and was fully competent to judge, 
says *'F. Connell, of the Roman Province, 
possesses excellent talents. He was Mas- 
ter of Humanities in the Roman College; 
and is now (1785) Chaplain and Secretary 
to the Prelate Rinucinni ( afterwards Car- 
dinal), who, during several years, has 
treated him with singular courtesy ; he has 
serious thoughts of offering himself to the 
English Mission amongst our Brethren." 
These thoughts however were abandoned : 
he was at Rome at the death of his friend, 
F. Thorpe, 12 April, 1792, 11 years 
later I find him at Leghorn 

Connell, Maurice, " genere noUili ori» 



undus." The Annual Letters from 1671 
to 1674, shew how powerful this Father 
was in word and in work, insomuch that 
he might be called "Au/ms Insulce Thau, 
maturgus." Kerry seems to have been the 
theatre of his A{)ostolic labours. He was 
truly an eye to the blind and a foot to the 
lame, and the Father of the poor. Like his 
blessed Master he went about doing good : 
and like him he was cruelly outraged and 
persecuted. He was living in July, 1675, 
" sexagenario major J* 

CoNNY, , was Superior of the Semi- 
nary at Salamanca, in the summer of 1607. 

Connor, O' John. I meet with him in 
Champagne, in 16&6, when his services 
were demanded for the Irish Mission. There 
I find him in November, 1674, labouring 
diligently and fruitfully in a country Parish. 
His skill in the Irish language rendered his 
services particularly valuable to a poor 
population. 

Connor, O' John, born 8 Sept. 1789 : 
entered 7 Sept. 1808; taught Humanities at 
Clongowes. From the office of Minister he 
became Procurator there. " On 17 March, 
(1841,) our Procurator of Clongowes- wood 
College, met with an accident. He with a 
young Gent resident in this neighbourhood, 
were returning from Naas, a distance of 5 
miles, on the College Jaunting Car, on 
which, at the opposite side, sat the driver 
and another man. From some cause that 
cannot be ascertained, the horse ran away 
with them : all were pitched off : the car 
turned over so far as to strike our dear Fa- 
ther on the left leg, the bones of which were 
rather smashed than broken. Until Thurs- 
day, 25lh we had great hopes of a favourable 
result. Even yesterday, nothing immediate 
was apprehended : he was easy, spoke 
freely, slept last night, awoke greatly 
changed at 6, and breathed his last before 
7 this morning, 27 March. For the last 5 
or 6 years that he has been Procurator, he 
was indefatigable in his duties, of a cheer- 
ful temper, and greatly liked by all his 
Brethren and acquaintances." Extract of F. 
P. Kenney's letter to me, 27 March, 1841. 

CoNOLLY, John- This Irish Father suc- 
ceeded Rev. James Leslie at Oxford, in the 
autumn of 1812 ; but was cut off in the 
prime of life, September 6, 1818. A small 
Tablet in the Chapel states that the mortal 
remains of Rev. John William Conolly are 
deposited there — that he had been the Incum- 
bent from 1812, to 1818, and that he was 
aged 39 years at the date of his death. 

Conrad, Peter, born in Ireland, in the 
year 1622 : united himself to the Society at 
the age of 31 : shortly after I lose sight of 
him. 

Conway, John. This Professed Father 
died at Cashell, 10 August, 1632, " Vir 
vere Religiosus ct in vinea hac utilis ope- 
rarius," as his Superior, F. Robert Nu- 
gent writes of him, 10 October, (h»f year. 



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Conway, Patrick. This worthy Mis- 
sionary was stationed at Cashell, in 1649 
lie was then about 44 years of age, and of 
feeble constitution. 

Conway, Richard. F. Fitzsiraons men- 
tions him in 1611. I learn from two letters 
of Dr. Kearney, Archbishop of Cashell, 15 
July, 1616, and 30 September, 1616, that 
this confidential Agent was actively em- 
ployed in Spain in his Grace's service. The 
Father was at Madrid in October, 1624. 

CopPiNGER, John, left Ireland for France 
to enter the Society early in 1608, as I dis- 
cover in F. Holy wood's letter of 29 June, 
that year. 

Cor, Thomas, was in the Lyons Pro- 
vince in the spring of 1712, and was pro- 
posed as a fit person to be Rector of the 
national Seminary of Poictiers. He must 
have died in the course of the year 1714 ; 
for I find a letter of F. Lavallin, daied Sep- 
tember 6, 1714, thanking his Superior for 
allowing him the use of the Library belong- 
ing to the deceased F. Cor. 

Creagh, (or Crow) Peter, was 33 years 
of age in 1649, and then residing at Li- 
merick. 

Creevy, Robert, He is thus mentioned 
in F. Richard Burke's letter, dated Galway, 
4 April, 1670,— "Mr. Robert Creevy, 
Priest, aged 87, with your permission was 
admitted at Limerick to the simple vows of 
the Society, 27 February, and died on the 
day following. 

Croak, Laurence, was born in Dublin, 
10 August, 1710, and entered the Society at 
Lisbon, 17 November, 1728. In due time 
he was enrolled amongst the Professed Fa- 
thers. After teaching Humanities and 
Moral Theology, he returned to Ireland in 
1751. For some time he was Chaplain to 
Lord Trimlestown : subsequently he was 
assistant to a Parish Priest in his native 
city ; but I cannot ascertain the date of his 
decease. 

Cronin, Dermot. On finishing his 
Studies at Thoulouse, and his third year of 
Probation, he was placed at Drogheda to- 
■wards the end of the year 1671. He excel- 
led as a Preacher and Catechist, aad had 
the advantage over several of his Brethren 
by his perfect acquaintance with the Irish 
language. In a letter written by the Su- 
perior, F. Knowles, at Waterford, 25 No- 
vember, 1694, it is said that he had a charge 
of a poor country Parish, and had to wander 
about in sheepskins and goatskins," 
(Hc6. c. XI. V. 37.) on account of the ex- 
treme poverty of the Catholics. The 
Apostolic man must have died a few days 
later ; for the same Superior thus begins a 
letter, dated 17 February, 1695 : " On the 
9th of December, I wrote announcing the 
death of F. Dermot Cronin in this Mission, 
and requesting, the usual suffrages for his 
soul. " 

CuLLENAN, Hugh. This Rev. Father 
was a Chaplain to Catharine, Queen of 



Charles II. and was mainly instrumental 
by his influence with her Majesty in pro- 
curing a splendid sum towards the erection 
of the Seminary at Poictiers. For 30 years, 
as I find by his letter of 1 May, 1684, he 
had resided in London. He was so suc- 
cessful in collecting funds for that establish- 
ment as justly to merit the title of its second 
founder. To the Irish Mission also he 
proved a generous friend. The year of his 
death I cannot fix ; but F. Knowles, in his 
letter of 6 April, 1714, enumerating the 
Fathers who died in exile " tempore bel- 
lorum " mentions F. Hugh CuUenan " z«- 
signis et prcecipuus hvjus Missionis Be- 
nefactor." 

CusACK, Henry. His services for the 
Irish Mission were required in February, 
1622. 

Daly, John, When in Priest's Orders 
joined the Society and taught Philosophy 
in France. Towards the latter end of 1699, 
it seems he was allowed to accompany Pere 
Farganel to the Mission of Martinique. 

David, This Father is men- 
tioned in More's History of the English 
Province, p. 13, as accompanying the Pri- 
mate, Dr. Richard Creagh, to Ireland, in 
the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign. 
From a letter of F. Edmund Tanner, written 
11 October, 1577, I am led to believe that 
David was then living in Munster. 

I suspect this is the F. Mauricius ( Q 
Morris) mentioned p. 18, Roth's Analecta 
de rebus Catholicorum Hibernice. 

David, Bernard, studied in the Low 
Countries, and was aggregated to the 
Order in 1625. Towards the end of July, 
1642, he was sent over from Belgium to 
Earl O'Neil, in Ireland ; but certainly from 
November that year, till August following, 
was resident at Galway, where he did good 
service. Shortly after this he was sent to 
Rome on the business of the Irish Mission.* 
Ic October, 1648, he returned in company 
with the NuDcio Rinuccini. He died at 
Florence, in his journey to Rome, during 
the summer of 1648. The loss of his talents 
and services was deeply deplored by his Su- 
perior, F. William Malone, in his letter of 
16th December that year. 

Daton, (alias Downes) Richard. I 
meet with him in August, 1607. He wis 
at Bordeaux eight years later ; I meet him 
again 13 January 1615. 

Dillon, George, son of the Earl of 
Roscommon ; illustrious by birth, he was 
still more illustrious by his virtues. As s 
missionary he was a pattern of the inward 
spirit, full of zeal, meekness and charity. 
He used to insist amongst his Brethren on 

* This Father purchased a press in France for 
the use of the Fathers at Kilkenny, but this was 
taken from them by Robert Bagot, Secretary of the 
Supreme Council, in virtue of an Order dated 28 
May, 1648. Another press belonged to the Fathers 
at Waterford, to which some of the Irish Bishop* 
subscribed. 



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the necessity of i!n';i'earied labour, whilst 
the Almighty blessed them with health and 
bodily vigour, as old age was rather a pe- 
riod of suffering than of active exertion. 
Exausted with the duty of daily and nightly 
attendance on the sick at Waterford, when 
the plague raged in that city, he at length 
was numbered 4 August, 1650, amongst its 
fatal victims. He died most piously, in- 
voking with his last breath the sweet name 
of Jesus. 

Dillon, Robert, was a Novice at Kil- 
kenny in 1649. 

Dillon, Thomas, was born in 1613, and 
was educated in Spain. For many years 
he taught Philosophy and Divinity, with 
distinguished credit at Seville and Grenada. 
We learn from his friend Antonio, p. 247, 
Hispana Nova, that F. Kircher, a very 
competent judge, pronounced him to be 
*' Linguarum orientalium et abstriisioris 
doctrince Veterum Explorator eximius/' 
Whilst teaching Humanities at Cadiz, he 
published a Spanish Panegyric on the Cen- 
tenary of the Society of Jesus, 4to. Seville, 
1G40. He also arranged materials for a 
Commentary of the Books of Maccabees ; 
but delicate health, and weakness of sight, 
prevented liira from finishing thera for the 
press. After 1676 I cannot trace his bio- 
graphy. 

Dillon, William. His Father was 
born in 1619, and at the age of twenty uni- 
ted himself to the Society. He was living 
at Kilkenny in 1649. 

DiKAN, William, was born at Water - 
ford 10 June, 1778, and joined the Society 
with several others at Hodder, in 1805. 
He commenced his Theological studies at 
Stonyhurst,and finished them at Palermo in 
Sicily, where he was ordained Priest. On 
his return to Ireland, he was for several 
years Assistant to a Parish Priest in Dub- 
iin ; but eventually was employed as Pro- 
curator at Clongowes-wood College, near 
Dublin, and during a lengthened period 
discharged the duties of that office with ex- 
emplary zeal and punctuality. He breathed 
his last at Clongowes 24 May, 1836, with 
thegreatest calmness and resignation, Prof.4. 

DoNNELL, or Donnelly, Edmund, of 
Limerick. He probably joined the Order at 
Rome. Pope Gregory XIII, sent him to 
confirm and propagate Catholicity in Ire- 
oland, at the time that FF. Campian and 
Persons were proceeding on the same work 
to England. Apprehended soon after bis 
arrival, this good Jesuit was detained for 
some time in close custody at Limerick ; 
but was afterwarils removed to Cork, where 
he was hanged, drawn and quartered for the 
Faith. 30 January^ I6S1. See his Life by 
F, Tanner ; also Drews' Fasti. 

DoRAN, Edmund, of Leinster. He was 
born 6 January, I7l6, and entered the So- 
ciety at Lisbon 26 July, 1732. This Pro- 
fessed Father came to the Irish Mission in 
1760 J he was naturally of a weak constitu- 

3n. 



tion. Dublin was his usual residence, 
where it seems he died 17 April, 1758. 

DoRAN , Patrick, uncle to the late Ve- 
nerable Bishop Moylan, was a native of 
Cork ; studied at Thouiouse and Rome, 
and justly obtained the reputation of a 
learned man. Those who remember him at 
Cork, describe him as a very superior di- 
rector, gifted with great discernment, and 
enlightened piety. His irreproachable and 
saintly life endeared him to all who knew 
him. When but 44 years of age, he caught 
a fever in attending a sick person, which 
very soon proved fatal, A. D. 1771: his 
precious remains were deposited in the bu- 
rial place ot the Moylan family, in Upper 
Shardon Church. 

DowDALL, Gregory. This Father, the 
model of zeal, humility, and self-denial, du- 
ring the Siege of Ross, Co. Wexford, was 
like an angel of comfort to its inhabitants. 
When the town was taken by the Parlia- 
mentary troops, he was the only Priest that 
remained at his post ; and during the ravages 
of the plague, devoted himself to the service 
of the sick and infected. Overcome with 
exertion , he at length took the infection, and 
fell a victim of charity 9 August, 1650. As 
soon as the Superior, F. Malone, heard of 
his illness, he sent F. Stephen Gelosse to 
his assistance from Waterford, and from his 
hands the dying Father received all the 
consolations of Religion, and all the atten- 
tions of friendship. 

* Doyle, John: a very exemplary lay- 
brother, who diedatClongowes27 January 
1822, Soc. 2. 

Doyle, William, of Dublin, was born 
30 May, 1717, and entered the Society in 
Champagne, 12 July, 1734. After teaching 
Humanities for five years, and filling the 
office of Prefect in the Seminary at Poictiers 
for one year, he came to the Mission at the 
age of 33, and for several years was assis- 
tant to a. Parish Priest in Dublin. I find 
him labouring in the Lancashire Mission in 
1771. This Rev. Father died at Cowley- 
hill, near St. Helen's, 15 January, 1785, 
and was buried at Windleshaw, 

Draycott, George. This Father had 
arrived from Germany, and was stationed 
in Dublin in the winter of 1622. 

*DriVan, Patrick Aloysius, this Scho- 
lastic and raosl fervent Religious died at 
Naples in September, 1832, Soc. 10. 

DuGAN, Dantel, began his Noviceship 
at Kilkenny, which he finished at Galway. 
His master of Novices, F.John Young, 
sent him to the Province of Aquiiaine to 
complete his studies. I meet him at Ro- 
chelle in June, 1659, when all traces escape 
rae. 

DuiGuiN, John Baptist. From F.Ro- 
bert Nugent's letter, dated Ireland, 24 
April, 1642, I collect that his friend had 
died on the preceding 13 March, reliyiosce 
vitce exemplo et multorum annorum ex- 
antlalis in hac vinea laboribus insignis. 



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Egan, John, was living at Kilkenny in 
1649, aud then 55 years of age. He was 
teaching Philosophy, and was a superior 
Preacher ; but what is more, he deserved 
the character of being " truly learned and 
good, modest and humble." 

• Enright, John, born at Castletown, 
Co. Limerick in 1793, became a Novice at 
Hodder 12 November, 1817. After render- 
ing useful service to his brethren for a full 
quarter of a Century, and edifying all who 
approached him by his religious virtues and 
merits, he died of water on the chest at the 
Seminary of Stonyhurst, on the morning of 
15 December, 1843, 

EvERA-BD, James. This Rev. Father 
offered -his services for the Irish Mission 
early in 1605, but could not be spared from 
Spain until the Autumn of 1607, at the very 
time that bis brother John, an eminent law- 
yer and judge quitted the Bench rather than 
betray his Conscience, At this period, in- 
tolerance, with the denial of civil rights, 
stalked abroad through his native Country: 
the best men were seized for its vic- 
tims, and the British Constitution was the 
by-word for injustice, oppression, and per- 
secution to death, for liberty of Conscience. 
During 40 years F. Everard was reserved 
for Apostolic labour chiefly at Cashell. 
As a Preacher he ranked in the first class : 
and though of a delicate constitution, and 
generally unwell, he was ever prompt and 
eager to fulfil the duties of his ministry. 
Severe to himself, he was all condescension 
and charity to his neighbours. On Good 
Friday, 16 April, 1647, the venerable man 
was found dead on his knees. 

Eustace, Oliver, was Superior of his 
Brethren at Wexford in 1649, and is re- 
ported then to be " vir vere optimus. 
Shortly after he went to Spain ; but just 
before the restoration of Charles tjie II. he 
returned to his native Country : bad health 
however, induced him to pass some time in 
England. I find from the Annual Letters 
that he died at Dubli n in ihe course of the 
year 1671, *^ in Missione et alibi de So- 
eietate bene meritus." 

Ferrall O', Robert, son of Ambrose 
O'Ferrall, Esq. of Ballina, County Kildare; 
born 4 March, 1791 : ordained Priest 22 
September, 1832 : was attacked with 
Cholera whilst attending his colleague, F. 
John Shine, of St. Francis Xavier's Church, 
Gardiner. street, Dublin. Removed to Bel- 
lina for a change of air, his constitution 
was still unable to resist the fatal attack, 
and on Friday Morning, S August, 1834, 
this promising young Jesuit surrendered 
his innocent soul to God, Soc. 13. 

Field, Christopher. The only men- 
tion that I find of him is in a letter of his 
Superior, F. Thomas Latvndy, dated 6 
March, 1624. He appsars to have been 
then a Scholastic. 

Field, Richard. Of his early history 
I can learn nothing ; but in consequence of 



F. Holiwoods's apprehension (of whom 
more hereafter^, he was appointed Superior 
of his Missionary Brethren in Ireland. He 
had certainly reached his destination in the 
Spring of 1599. 

Some of his letters have fortunately es- 
caped the injuries of time. The first bears 
date Dublin, 1 September, 1599. He ac- 
knowledges the receipt of his letters written 
in April, and speaks in high terms of the 
successful zeal of F. Henry Fiizsimon. In 
a second letter, daied Dublin, 20 July, 
1600, he stales that the population, which 
was in arms against Queen Elizabeth's 
government, and fighting nominally for 
Religion, were far remote in their lives and 
manners from practical Christianity and 
the perfection of the Gospel ; nay, were ad- 
dicted to many gross errors and vices, and 
he calls aloud for a supply of pious and 
learned Priests to instruct and correct 
thera. He adds, that in the more civilized 
part of the Island, where he happened to 
reside, the poor ware exceedingly well af- 
fected to Religion. 

The third letter is also dated from Dub- 
lin, 25 February, 1603. It laments the in- 
terruption of epistolary intercourse — that 
now it was the fourth year since he had 
heard from Rome. He states that there 
are five Jesuits in Ireland ; viz. two in 
Munster, ?. Andrew Malony, and P. Ni- 
cholas Lynch — two in Leinster ; viz. him- 
self and his socius, F. Lenan, and F. Hen- 
ry Fitzsimou, who was still detained in 
prison. He then proceeds thus : "since 
the Queen's Privy Council have imagined 
that the war is drawing to a conflusioa, 
for the Spanish Troops were repulsed last 
year, and the forces of the Irish Chieftains 
were broken and reduced, they have ap- 
pointed upwards of sixty Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners to superintend the business 
of the Churches. They have begun with 
Dublin, and have ordered the Churches to 
be put in proper repair, and to be refitted 
with seats, &c., in a handsome style** 
They have divided the City into six pa- 
rishes, and have ernleavoured to urge the 
people by threats, and allure by promises, 
to attend the services and serraoiiS iu the 
respective parish Churches. Unable to 
prevail on the Catholics to be present, the 
fix a day in each week, when the Catho- 
lics, (whom they call Recusants), must ap- 
pear be.^ore the Commissioners. The Gea- 

• We have sometimes seen it asserted, that 
Tithes to the present Established Church in Ire- 
land were not enjoined by Statute Law, But the 
contrary is the fact For, by 27th Hen. V 111 A. D, 
1535, Tithes, offerings, and others duties of Holy 
Church are required to be paid by every of hit 
Majesty's subjects of this Realm of England, Ire 
land,\V&\es and Calais, and Marches of the same 
according to the Ecclesiastical Laws and Ordinan- 
ces ot the Church of Eng-land, and after the Lauda- 
ble usages and Customs of the Parish, or other 
place, where he dwelleth or occupieth. This is con- 
firmed by the Act of 32 Henry VIII. 1540 ; and 
again by Edward VI in 1548. 



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try are asked in the first place, and then 
tlie Common people, whether they will fre- 
quent the Churches and assist at the ser- 
mons ? The general answer is, that they 
will not enter those profane places of wor- 
ship, or listen to the false doctrines of the 
preachers : and that by the faith of their 
forefathers, and by the Catholic Religion, 
they are prohibited from communicating 
with thera in sacred things. A thousand 
injuries and calumnies are heaped upon 
them in consequence : they are called trai- 
tors, and abbettors of the Spaniards : com- 
mitments to jail are made out for disobey- 
ing the Queen's Laws ; fines of ten pounds 
are ordered for each offence or absence 
from the Church on the Lord's Day. The 
imprisonment is patiently endured ; but 
the citizens will not pay the fines, for they 
stoutly deny that they can be legally com- 
pelled to pay them. This is the condition 
of the citizens ; and their invincible fideli- 
ty has stimulated the courage of other 
Towns." He adds that the wiser sort of 
Commissioners think it unfair that a peo- 
ple inured from the cradle to the Catholic 
Religion, or as they say to Popish Ceremo- 
nies, should be punished so heavily, merely 
for Religion, " tanlum relief ionis causd^'^ 
especially in such turbulent times, and 
when a Spanish invasion may be appre- 
hended. For the Irish Chieftains are still 
levying troops, and announce with confi- 
dence that in the course of this very Spring 
they are infallibly to receive reinforcements 
from Spain. 

The precise date of F. Field's death lean- 
not recover. He was living when Dr. 
James White, Vicar Apostolic ofLismore 
and Waterfcrd, dedicated 25 July, 160-1, to 
Pope Clement the VIII. his Memorial, 
" De rebus yestis a Catholicis utriusque 
Ordinis in Regno Hibernice a morte 
ElizabcthcB, quondam Anglice Reginos,"* 
It Seems however, that he died early in 
the year 1606 ; for F. Holiwood begins 
a letter 29 June, 1608, by say in " All 
my brethren, by the blessing of God, with 
the exception of Richard, of whose death 
I have already informed you), are safe 
and well." 

Field, Thomas, born at Limerick, in 
which City his Father practised as a Phy- 
sician. The youth was admitted at Rome 
into the Society by the General Everard 
Mercurian ; having obtained the consent of 
Superiors to proceed to the Brazils, he sailed 
from Lisbon, but was seized by the English 

• He states in this Memorial that the news of 
Queen Elizabeth's death 24 March. 1603. did not 
transpire in Ireland till 9 April! On the 11th of 
April, he reconciled the Church of St. I'alrick in 
Waterfcrd, and on the next day publicly officiated 
at High Mass ; thence proceeded to reconcile the 
Cathedral Ciiurch dedicated to the Holy Trinity. 
On the 13th of April (which was Wednesday in 
Passion-week.) High Mass was celebrated in this 
Cathedral. These proceedings alarmed Sir Charles 
Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who hurried to the City 
with a considerable force to overawe tlie inhabitants. 



in the mouth of La Plata River, and nar- 
rowly escaped with his life. After a life of 
labor and self-denial and bringing forth much 
fruit, he died at the Assumption Settlement 
A.D. 1625, set. SO, prope Jubilarianus. 

FiNOLASs, Robert, was of a good family. 
This Rev. Priest, at the age of 51 joined 
the Society. He had been Chaplain to the 
Lady of General Preston, (sister to the F. 
Provincial Namur, S. J ) and accompanied 
her to the Netherlands in the Autumn of 
1650. 

* FiTZHARRis, Nicholas. Of This Stu- 
dent in Theology I read in a letter of the 
late Venerable F. Charles Plowden, dated 
17 January, 1818. " Brother Filzharris 
died lately at Clongowes, having burst a 
blood vessel. He was a youth of great 
merit : he edified Hodder in his Novitiate j 
truly living sine querela. He came to us 
from Maynooth." His death occurred 22 
December, 1817, Soc. 3. 

Fitzgerald, Michael, was born in 
Munster, 2 July. 1694, and united himself 
to the Society at Thoulouse, 12 September, 
1716. He returned to Ireland as a Mis- 
sionary in 1727, and was admitted to the 
Profession of the Four Vows, 7 May, 1732: 
After serving the Mission ten years, he was 
ordered to the Seminary at Poictiers, which 
he governed for nearly eight years, and then 
proceeded to Rome, where he was Rector of 
the Irish College for more than four years. 
He was Superior of his Brethren in Ireland 
in 1755 : but when he died I know not. 

FiTzsiMONS, Henry, was born in Dub- 
lin, in 1567, where his Father was an emi- 
nent merchant. He was matriculated at 
Hart'.s-hall, Oxford, 26 April, 1583. Nine 
years later, at the age of 25, he associated 
himself to the Society of Jesus at Douay. 
Under the instructions of the great Lessius, 
he soon was qualified for the chair of Phi- 
losophy, which he filled for several years. 
An ardent zeal for Religion urged him to 
solicit his return to his Native Country ; 
and I find that he reached Dublin late in 
the year 1597. Here he gave abundant 
evidence of commanding talents as a Preach- 
er, of a fearless spirit and unbounded charity. 
Strange to say, he ventured to have a so- 
lemn High Mass, performed with great va- 
riety of musical instruments —a sight that 
Dublin had not witnessed for Forty years 
before ; and he also instituted a Sodality or 
Confraternity in honor of the B. Virgin 
Mary. But he was at length apprehended 
and detained in prison for five years, during 
which period, at eight different limes, he 
was brought into Court ; but was always 
remanded. Soon after the Accession of 
K. James, great interest was made for his 
discharge, and after much negotiation, he 
was. hurried as an exile on board a ship 
bound to Bilboa, without being allowed to 
take leave of his friends. Before he 
loft the jail, he had reconciled many to 
the Catholic Church, and during the voy- 



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age his zeal produced the happiest effects 
among the crew and passengers. On 
14 June, 1604-, he landed at Bilboa. 
Rome, Liege , and the Low Countries ad- 
mired his devotion to the labours of his 
Ministry ; it was his pleasure and delight 
to visit the sick, to attend the infected, to 
assist prisoners and persons condemned to 
death ; but his heart panted to re-enter the 
field of hardship and danger in his beloved 
and afflicted Country ; and at last Supe- 
riors allowed him to follow his own incli- 
nations. Like the giant he exulted to 
run his course ; and the fruits of his in- 
dustrious activity every where appeared in 
the numerous conversions of heretics, and 
in the strengthening of Catholics in prac- 
tical religion. The Civil and Military 
Authorities marked him out for vengeance. 
In the winter of 1642, in the darkness of the 
night, he effected his escape from Dublin. 
Winding his way through sequestered 
woods and dells, he took up his quarters 
in a wretched cabin that he found in a Mo- 
rass, where he was safe from those who 
hunted after his blood. Though exposed 
to the pitiless storm, and suffering every 
privation, this blessed Father never lost his 
serenity and elastic gaiety, and was always 
ready to administer consolation to others. 
But this Winter campaign broke down bis 
constitution. Removed to a place of com- 
parative comfort, he was treated by his 
brethren with the most affectionate care 
and Charity ; nature however was exhaust- 
ed, and after a short illness, full of days 
and fuller of merits, he passed to never- 
ending rest, with the name of Jesus on his 
lips, 29 November, lt?43, or as another 
account has it, 1 February, 1644. "By his 
death the Roman Catholics lost a pillar of 
their Church, being esteemed a great orna- 
ment among them, and the greatest Defen- 
der of their religion, in his time." Wood's 
Athenae. Oxon, vol.11, p. 46. This eminent 
writer left to posterity 

1. " A Catholic Refutation of Mr, John 
aider's claim of Antiquity." N.B. — 
This Rider was Dean of St. Patrick, and 
subsequently appointed to the See of Killala. 

2. " Reply to Mr. Rider's Postcript." 

3. *''An Answer to certain complain' 
live Letters of afflicted Catholics for Re- 
ligion.'' 

All these were printed in a 4to. Vol. 
Rouen, 160S. 

4). " The Justif cation and Exposition 
of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse, and 
of all Rites and Ceremonies thereto be- 
longing," 4to. 1611, pp. 356. I think 
printed at Douay. 

5, " Britannomachia Ministrorum in 
plerisque et fidei fundamentisa Fidei 
Articulis dissidentium." 4to. Douay, 
pp. 356. 

6. " Catalogus Sanctorum Hibernice." 
8to. Liege, 1619, pp. 117. 

This was appended to the Hibernice sive 



Antiquioris Scotice vindicice adversus 
Thomam Dempsterum, an Svo. printed at 
Antwerp, 1621, Its Author adopted the 
initials G. F. 

Fleming, Richard, a man of great vir- 
tue and union with Almighty God. Sac- 
chinus mentions his distinct prediction at 
Paris ( 1581 ) that Claudius Aquaviva 
would be elected General of the Society, 
Hist. Soc. pars 5. 

Florence, AH that I can glean 

of this Father is, that F. Holiwood applied 
20 Juoe, 1604, to the General Aquaviva, 
for his being sent to the Irish Mission, and 
that until his arrival, F. Nicholas Lynch 
would supply in that portion of the vine- 
yard which was distined for him. This 
I discover by a previous letter 24 April 
that year, was in the North of Ireland ; 
but I doubt if he could be spared, for I find 
in a letter from Spain, written early in 1606, 
that F, Florence had at last obtained a 
Royal Decree, " ut Seminarium lliber- 
nis Vallisoleti regiis sumptibus struere- 
tur." 

Ford, James. This Professed Father, 
a native of Dublin, was living at Li.nerick, 
when Fere Verdier made his Visitation. 
He is then reported to be about 40 years 
old, but in delicate health, and employed in 
teaching Rhetorick, and also bonus et 
doctus," The next time that I meet him, 
is in a shoit statement of the condition of 
the Catholics in Ireland, between the years 
1652 and 1656, written by F. Thomas Quin, 
then Superior of the Iiish Mission. " F, 
James Ford, has erected a small dwelling 
in the midst of an extensive marsh, where 
the ground was rather firmer. Here the 
youths and children of the neighbourhood 
assemble to receive their education, and to 
be trained in the principles of faith and 
virtue."* 

Ford, William, was recommended by 
F. Ignatius Brown, 5 July, 1675, as a fit 
successor to F, Stephen Rice, in the charge 
of his brethren employed in the Irish Mis- 
sion. Further particulars I search for in 
vain : indeed at almost every step I have to 
regret the scarcity of documents, occasioned 
by the injury of the times, and the disper- 
sion of the Irish Members of the Society, 
throughout every part of ihe Continent. 

Frayn. Nicholas. This Father was 
certainly living in Ireland in the Autumn of 
1712. 

FuLLAM, John, was born in Dublin 28 
March, 1719, and entered the Novitiate, in 

* In the present day we can hardly form an idea 
of the persecutions and sufferings that the Clergy of 
Ireland had to endure. 1 have seen a letter of Dr. 
Anthony Geoghegan, Bishop of Meath, dated 26 
August, 1660, " ex loco nostri Refugii in Hibernia" 
in which he says, " Vivo iil cavernisadhuc, sicut et 
caeteri meae vocationis et status." In a previous 
letter, dated London 20 May. 1659, the good Prelate 
had said, " hue appull ante octiduum proponens 
firmiter ire in Hiberniam ad meum gregem." — Truly 
this Exemplary Clergy could say, " Propter te Dne 
mortificamur tota die," 



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the Lyons* province, 2 December, 1735. 
He came to the Mission in 1749, and was 
admitted to the Profes^on of the Four Vows 
2 Februarj , 1754. For tlie last 40 years of 
his life, I believe that he resided in his na- 
live city. He died either 7 August, 1793, 
or early in 1794. F.Peter Plunkett, in a 
letter to a friend dated 14 July that year, 
from Leghorn says, " Though I had been 
prepared for the fatal stroke by a letter from 
Dublin, announcing that my most dear and 
worthy friend, Rev. John Fulham, was past 
all hopes of recovery, notwithstanding on 
hearing the event, I felt no small share of 
uneasiness, such as was naturally to be ex- 
pected for the loss of a person, whom I had 
intimately known in Dublin, much esteemed 
and sincerely loved, and whom moreover I 
had corresponded with these twenty years 
past. I hope in God, he is now enjoying 
the reward due to his exemplary piety, to 
his strong attachment to our Holy Catholic 
religion, and to his unabated love and cod- 
cern for our common parent, the Society of 
Jesus. 

Gahan, Matthew, of Dublin; born 7 
February, 17S2 : entered the Society for the 
Irish Mission at Hodder House, 7 Septem- 
ber, 1805 : after completing his Noviceship 
there, commenced his Theology at Stony- 
hurst, and finished it at Palermo, where he 
was ordained Priest, 16 July, 1810 : In 
the November of the following year, he re- 
turned to his native Country, and for five 
years assisted as Curate in the Parishes of 
St. Michan and St, Nicholas without, in 
Dublin. In 1816, was stationed at Clon- 
gowes-Wood College, in the capacity of 
Minister, an office which he filled for six 
years, when he was ordered back to Dublin 
as Coadjutor to F. Aylmer, in the residence 
of the Society in that city. At the end of 
two years his Superiors permitted him to 
establish himself in the Isle of Man, the 
poor Catholics of which were lying like 
sheep without a Shepherd, and whom he 
had occasionally before visited and com- 
forted, and cheered with his presence. To 
their instruction, and relief, and service, he 
devoted the remainder of his life, amidst 
inconceivable discouragements, privations, 
difficulties and labors, all of which he bore 
with exemplary patience and fortitude. 
This good Father was called to the reward 
of his zeal and charity, 22 February, 1837, 
aet. 55. Prof. 4, after five days illness. He 
had built a Chapel at Douglass and Cas- 
tletown. Future generations will hail him 
as the Apostle of the Isle of Man — " supra 
modum Apostolus JnsulcB Monce." 

In truth he verified the description of a 
Parish Priest by Chaucer. 
" Butriche he was of holy thought and werk 
He was also a learned man, a Clerk 
That Criste's gospel trewely wolde preche 
His Parishners devoutly wolde he teche 
Benigne he was and wondrous diligent 
And in adverslte full patient." 

Galwey, David. In a letter of F, 

3o. 



Holiwood, written from Ireland, 30 June, 
1604, he begins by saying, "I send as the 
bearer of this, Mr. David Galwey, an 
Alumnus of our Society. I wish you to 
send him to St. Andrew's house of proba- 
tion, and to go through his Theological 
studies in the Roman College, He has been 
with me for the last year, and in our opinion 
is fit for the Society, and specially adapted 
for this Mission, because he is well ac- 
quainted with the Irish as well as the En- 
glish language. The life of a merchant 
which he followed before, makes him in the 
transaction of business more cautious and 
expeditious." In due time F. Galwey re- 
turned to his native country, and multiplied 
himself in the cause of the Missions. Ire- 
land did not present a field sufficiently ex- 
tensive for his zeal and charity. For thrice, 
in the disguise of a merchant, he visited 
Scotland, the Hebrides, and the Orkney Is- 
lands, and gained many souls to God. Se- 
vere to himself and dead to the world, he 
labored and lived but to promote the greater 
honor and glory of his Maker. This 
Apostolical Father died at Cork, of a cancer, 
22 December, 1649. 

Galwey, James. I read in a letter of 
the Superior Antony Knowles, dated 
Waterford, 21 November, 1695— "I have 
written F. James Galwey to continue in 
Belgium until I can be a better judge of 
the state of the times, as to his disposal,'* 
In consequence of the dangerous illness of 
his brother,a merchant of St. Sebastian, he 
was allowed to quit the College at Poictiers 
to visit him in the beginning of the year 
1697. Two years later, Pere Garganel, 
Superior of the Missions at Martinique, 
made application for some Irish Fathers to 
assist in that Mission and the neighbour- 
ing islands : he represented that there was 
a great number of Irish in his district^-tha 
an abundant harvest of souls was opened to 
the view, and that he and his brethren would 
cheerfully provide a maintenance for one or 
two Irish Jesuits, who would assist these 
souls, together with the French population. 
It is an historical fact, that with Cromwell's 
usurpation began the system of transporting 
the Irish, as slaves, to the West Indies : 
for a long time, says the letter, dated 16 
April, 1699, almost every year, and some- 
times often in the year, the English convey 
from Ireland shiploads of men, boys, and 
girls, partly crimped, partly carried off by 
open force, for the purpose of their slave- 
trade, and thus in process of time, an im- 
mense multitude of Irish has been scattered 
in these islands, but des-titute of spiritual 
succor. This Mission was proposed to F. 
Galwey, and how it was received the 
following letter of F. James Kelly, the 
Rector of the College of Poictiers, the 6th 
of August, 1699, will best demonstrate. 

" With the most intense delight F. 
James Galwey embraces the Mission of 
Martinique offered by your Reverence, 



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and he does so with the more confidence in 
God, as the lot has fallen upon him not in 
consequence of any expressed wish on his 
part (for though he wished it, he durst 
not apply for it ) i but now he is solely 
guided by the spirit of obedience. With 
alacrity he is getting ready for the voyage. 
F. Gargenal, who from his arrival from 
Martinique, has been on intimate terms 
with hira, is desirous of having him for 
his companion. In the meanwhile, we 
cannot but humbly request, that you will 
not give up, but merely lend F. Galwey (o 
the Martinique Mission ; for should our af- 
fairs lift up their head again in Ireland, he 
will be veiy necessary for us." 

Whether F„ Galwey ever returned, I have 
yet to learn. 

Gelosse, Stephen, born in 1617, was 
teaching poetry in Kilkenny College in 
1649, and was then reported by the vi- 
sitor, Pere Verdier, as a truly good and 
religious man, 1 believe he made his 
debut as a Minister at Waterford, whence 
he was sent to Ross to attend F. Gregory 
Dowdall in his last illness, and who died in 
his arras, 9 August, 1650. For the next 
19 years he continued to exercise his 
pastoral functions in (hat town and 
neighbourhood. No dangers that threaten- 
ed him from the Cromwellian party, who 
filled every place with blood and terror, 
could deter this genuine hero from doing 
his duty ; no weather, no pestilential fe- 
vers, no difficulties could hold him back 
from visiting the sick and the dying in 
their meanest hovels. His purse, his time, 
his services, were always at the command 
of the distressed Catholic : it was his food 
and delight to exercise the works of mercy 
corporal and spiritual. Though the ty- 
rant Cromwell had issued a proclamation 
to his troops, (and they were in the habit 
of searching the houses of respectable Ca» 
tholics, ) that should they apprehend a 
Priest in any house, the owner of such 
house should be hung up before his own 
door, and all his property be confiscated ; 
and that the captors of ihs Priest should be 
rewarded at the rate destroyers of the Wolf 
formerly received (so little value was at- 
tached to a Priest's life) ; nevertheless F. 
Gelosse managed every day to offer up the 
unbloody sacrifice of the altar : his extra- 
ordinary escape from the clutches of his 
pursuers border on the miraculous. He 
adopted every kind of disguise ; he as- 
sumed every shape and character ; he per- 
sonated a dealer of fagots, a servant, a 
thatcher, a porter, a beggar, a gardiner, 
a miller, a carpenter, a tailor with his 
sleeve stuck with needles, a milkman, a 
pedler, a seller of rabbit skins, &c. thus 
becoming all to all, in order to gain all to 
Christ. However he was four times ap- 
prehended, as he told F. Stephen Rice ; 
but his presence of mind never forsook him 
and he ingeniously contrived to extricate 



himself without much difficulty. After the 
restoration of Charles II. he set up a school 
at Ross, which took precedence of all 
others in the country, whether rank, num- 
bers, proficiency, discipline, or piety, be 
taken into consideration ; but this was bro- 
ke;! up by the persecution in 1670. He 
then removed to the vicinity of Dublin, 
where he taught about forty scholars ; and 
in August, 1673, he returiied to Ross 
to reopen his school, but at the end of three 
months was obliged, by the fanatical spirit 
abroad, to abandon this favorite pursuit. 
He was still living in the summer of 1675, 
when I regret to part company with him. 

Geraldine, George, was in Sicily, in 
August, 1615, when his services were re- 
quired for the Irish Mission. It appears 
that he was stationed in Munster ; for F, 
Robert Nugent, in his letter of I October, 
1640, after announcing the death of the ve- 
nerable F. Barnaby Kearney, requests F. 
George Geraldine to succeed the deceased 
as a Consultor, on account of his long ex- 
perience, prudence, '* et loci vicinitatem," 
I think he had been gathered to his Fathers 
before the year 1649. 

Gerot, John. His Superior F. Holi- 
wood, soon after his return to Ireland, ap- 
plied that F. Gerot might be sent over to 
him, as his services could be usefully em- 
ployed at Wexford. 

Gibbons, J^mes. This Father was ac- 
tually arrested in December, 1694, on 
landing, and conveyed to Dublin, a distance 
of 100 miles, and examined by the Privy 
Council on his reason for returning 
to Ireland. He was discharged from 
custody the following February, and was 
living 15 November, 1712. 

Glannan, Christopher, born lo May, 
1711 : entered the Society in Germany, 12 
September, 1731, and was Professed in the 
Order, 2 February, 1752. I find that ha 
came to the Irish Mission in 1741 and was 
assisting a parish Priest in Dublin 14 years 
later, when I lose sight of him. 

GoAGH, Andrew, of Clonmel, and where 
he was superior in 1640, set. 60. He had 
joined the Order late in life. 

GoAGH, Ignatius. This Father, as I 
find by the letter of his Superior, F. Patrick 
Lynch, dated Dublin, 19 March, 1693, had 
died 18 of the preceding month, set. 68, 
Soc, 48. He had spent about 15 yearsin thq. 
Mission of Holland, and 25 years in the same 
capacity in his native country. 

Gorman, Thomas, born in Munster, 29 
December, 1691 ; was admitted in the Cas- 
tile Province of the Society, 12 March, 
1714: and ten years later came to the Irish 
Mission. His services were bestowed at 
Clonraell, Limerick, and Cork, where he 
shone as a Preacher. I believe he ended 
his days at Cork, where I leave him in 
1755. 

Gradeli/, John. His true name was 
O'Neil: was born 11 May, 1716. Having 



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ended his studies at Paris, he became a can- 
didate for the Novitiate at Watten. A few 
years later his Superior sent him to the Cor- 
nish Mission, which he cultivated until his 
death, 6 January, 1160. 

GuNTER. Edward. This excellent 
Scholar finished his course of Theology in 
the English Province ; then made his third 
year of Probation in the Province of the 
Lower Rhine. He died in Dublin, in the 
course of the year 1671. 

Halloran O', Joseph, Ignatius, born 
in Limerick, in 1726. After having passed 
his course of Philosophy with singular re- 
putation under the Jesuits at Bordeaux, he 
entered their Novitiate. Appointed to the 
chair of Philosophy in that City, he had 
the merit and courage of introducing the 
Newtonian System. Promoted to the Pro- 
fessorship of Theology, he maintained his 
i ncreasing reputation, until the persecutions 
of his Order compelled him to return to 
his native Country. Accompanying Lord 
Dunboyne to Cork, he spent several years 
iu that City, where attaching himself to the 
North Chapel, he commenced Public ("ate- 
chism, was most assiduous in the Confes- 
sional, and in preparing Children for their 
first Communion. He greatly distinguished 
himself by his talents in the Pulpit and was 
universally respected as a saintly Missioner, 
as a man of elevated mind, gentlemanly 
manners, and most prepossessing in his ap- 
pearance. This is the Reverend Father al- 
luded to pp. 79-80 Vol I. " Travels of an 
Irish Gentleman in search of Religion^' 
by Thomas Moore, Esq. That he died in 
Dublin during the month of November, 
1800, is certain ; and probably was buried 
in the vault of St. Michan's Ciiurch, where 
repose the ashes of several of his B13. 

I£amlin, Bartholomew, was a Sexa- 
genarian at Wexford, in 1619, but in full 
vigour, teaching Rhetoric with great spirit, 
and meriting the reputation of an excellent 
and fearless preacher. 

Hart, Nathaniel. All that I know of 
him is from his own brief letter, dated 15 
June, 1659, which shews that he was then 
Superior of his brethren in Ireland. 

Hartegan O', Matthew. A letter of 
F. Robert Nugent dated from Ireland, 24 
April, 1642, shews, that F. Hartegan had 
just been sent over to France by the Catho- 
lic National Association, and the Bishops, 
to solicit the aid of his most Christian Ma- 
jesty. He states that Ireland presented a 
spectacle of general conflagration and 
bloodshed, and that the Catholics were 
fighting for freedom of conscience, for their 
legitimate King, and for their country, 
against the Puritans. F, Hartegan, during 
the year he spent in this negotiation, dis- 
played much ardour; but his success was 
not equal to his expectations. This may 
have been owing to the extreme illness of 
Cardinal Richlieu. Another object was then 
taken up certainly in belter keeping with his 



religious profession, I learn from his own 
letter, dated Paris, 30 March, 1643, that 
Pere Jordan Forrestier, the Procurator of 
the Provinces of France, had placed in his 
hanils 25 March, the petition of 25,000 
Irishmen, who by the persecution and 
iniquity of the times had been forced to 
expatriate themselves, and settle in St. 
Kitt's, and the adjoining isles. Their pe- 
tition had been brought over by the French 
Admiral Du Poenry, who backed their pe- 
tition for two Irish Jesuits to be sent 
over to administer the consolations of Re- 
ligion to their destitute a«d afflicted coun- 
trymen. F. Hartegan offered himself for 
this Mission, and represented his vigour of 
•onstitutiot), his knowledge of the Irish, 
English, and French languages, and his 
vehement desire of labouring in this or any 
other similar Mission. Probably his wish 
was granted, for afterwards he disappears 
altogether. 

Hennessey, James, was born in Munster, 
16 January, 1720, and became a candidate 
for the Society at Madrid, in 17,S7. Ten 
years later he came on the Irish Mission 
and was stationed at Clonmel ; but after a 
few years labor returned to Spain, where I 
find him in 1755 ; after which time he eludes 
my observation. 

Henessy, John. In p, 195, of " /far- 
ris's Writers of Ireland,'' this Father is 
described as a Jesuit of Clonmel, who 
flourished in the early part of the 18th cen- 
tury, and that he was the anonymous Edi- 
tor of a Treatise on the Primacy of Armagh. 

Hennessy, Thomas. I find in a letter of 
F. Walter Lavallin, dated from Foictiers, 
1 January, 1713, that F. Thomas Hennessy 
had sailed for Ireland " paratus ad omnia 
pericula subeunda," 

Heys. This Irish Jesuit, was in 1669, 

described by Conn, as capellano effettivo 
della Regina et Missionario legiltimo. 

HiGGiNs, John Francis, was admitted 
into the Order in Portugal, in April, 1681. 
He reached the Irish Mission in Decem- 
ber, 1694, and it seems was socius at 
Waterford to the Superior Anthony Knowies. 
After 13 December, 1697, I lose sight 
of him. 

Hlasko, Casimir. This Polish Profess- 
ed Father, and able Professor of Natural 
Philosophy and Dogmatic Theology, reach- 
ed Ireland in December, 1820, and gave 
the aid of his superior talents to the (Col- 
lege at Clongowes, where he died 27 Jan- 
uary, 1831, set. 49. 

HoLiwooD, Christopher, (often call- 
ed a Sacro Bosco*) was born in Dublin, 
in the year 1562. At the age of 22, as it 
appears by one of his letters, he embraced 
the Institute of St. Ignatius, at Dol, in 
F ranee, and in the sequel distinguished him- 
self as a Professor of Philosophy and Di- 
vinity at Padua. Ordeied to Ireland to 
preside over his brethren, he took shipping 

* lie sometimes signs himself Johannes Bushlock 



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as a merchant in January, 159D, at Dieppe, 
but was apprehended on reaching Dover, 
and committed to prison for refusing the 
Oath of Supremacy, Escorted to London 
he underwent an examination by Lord 
Cobham, Governor of the Cinque Ports, 
and was then forwarded to Secretary Sir 
Robert Cecyll. The Father told Sir Robert 
at once, that he vpas a Priest and Member 
of the Society of Jesus. ( He was in- 
duced to do so, as he was aware, many 
persons then in the kingdom were well 
acquainted with him at Padua.) The Se- 
cretary inquired the motives of his 
coming hither. He answered for the Sal- 
vation of souls. But what need have we 
of your assistance ? said the Secretary. 
Are we not Christians ? That is not at 
all suflficient, said the Father, unless you 
be Catholics. Well, replied the Secre" 
tary, as no one can help your believing 
what you think right, until God en- 
lightens your mind, you shall not suffer 
any thing for your Faith ; but if you are 
found guilty of meddling with changes and 
state affairs, I promise you, you shall not 
escape with impunity. The Father re- 
joined — Long since T have renounced the 
world : I no longer mix myself up with se- 
cular concerns, and I am unable to do so 
for they are foreign to my Institute. The 
Secretary then began to inveigh against 
the Society of Jesus : on which the Father 
boldly undeitook ils defence, and plainly 
told him, that the Society proposed nothing 
to its members which was not praisewor- 
thy ; on which the Secretary ordered him 
to be removed, and kept in close custody; 
in which state he continued for three 
months, until his relation, Lord Dunsany 
obtained for him the liberty of the prison, 
which consists in this, that he is not denied 
the liberty of receiving his friends. The 
above particulars I collect from a letter, da- 
ted Dublin, n May, 1599. 

F Henry Garnett, in a letter 19 April, 
1599, announced the apprehension of F. 
Holiwood as a recent event : and in 
his letter 22 May, 1600, says of him, 
*• he doth much comfort our friends at 
Wisbich, and was of exceeding edifica- 
tion in the Gatehouse. There is hope of 
getting bira at liberty, and sending him 
into his Country.'' Change of prison 
however was the only relief that this Irish 
Father could procure, while the tyrannical 
Elizabeth swayed the sceptre. His friends 
at length obtained his removal to Fram- 
lingham Castle, which he quitted for per- 
petual banishment, in virtue of the Procla- 
mation of James I. at his accession to the 
throne of England. I find the Father writ- 
ing from Lisle, 30 June, 1603, and from 
Douay, 16 July 1603. In the last dated let- 
ter, he states, that a short time before the 
queen's death, the Catholics in Dublin had 
experienced the storm of persecution. The 
instigalors were Terrelly the Mayor of the 



City, and Rid(r. the dean of St. Patrick's, 
and polemical antagonist of F. Henry Fitz- 
simons. Many Catholics quitted the town, 
and the leading citizens were committed to 
gaol. Baron Mountjoy was then absent in 
Connaught ; at his return the citizens pre- 
sented a raemoiial of their grievances. 
Turning to the Mayor bis Excellency said, 
" I am putting an end to warfare abroad, 
and you, Sir, are sowing the seed of wars at 
Home." It was thought that his Excel- 
lency had received information of the Queen's 
dangerous illness, with instruction to pacify 
and conciliate the public mind. 

The letter adds, that on the news of 
Queen Elizabeth's death reaching Ireland, 
in the cities of Waterford, Kilkenny, and 
Cork, and in various other places, the 
churches were seized on and restored to 
Catholic worship. Lord Mountjoy began 
to apprehend lest the greater part of the is- 
land would join in the insurrection. He had 
come to a composition fortunately with 
O'Neil,* and having collected all his forces 
from the North he hurried dovpo to the 
South to arrest the progress of discontent: 
and having succeeded in his object, sailed 
from Dublin to England. 

F. Holiwood embarked from St. Malo, 
and reached Ireland 16 March, 1604, the 
Eve of St. Patrick, ''Omen uti sperofelix," 
as he expresses it. Towards the end of 
Lent he met FF. Nicholas Lynch, Richard 
Field, Walter VVale, and Barnaby Kearney, 
brother to the Archbishop of Cashell, and 
Andrew Movony. At this time the Catho- 
lics of Ireland enjoyed a certain negative 
freedom of their religion. But this was of 
short duration. As soon as .lames thought 
himself sufficiently secure on his throne, he 
basely recalled all his promises of tolera- 
tion. t His subsequent conduct shewed 

» Did not O'Neil die at Rome, 23 September, 
1609, and was he not buried in the Church of St. 
Pietro in Montono ? 

I This hollow and rotten-hearted prince had 
been a pensioner of the Pope, and the king of 
Spain. F. William Creittoa, in a letter to F. 
Thomas Owen, dated Billom, 4 June, 1605, says 
" Our Kyng had so great fear of ye nombre of Ca- 
tholikes, ye pnissaunce of Pope and Spaine, yat he 
offered Libertie of Conscience and send mb to Rom© 
to deal for the Pope's favor and making of an Scot- 
tish Cardinal, as 1 did shaw the Kyng's letter to F. 
Parsons." In the sequel this contemptible tyrant 
considered a petition presented for Liberty of Con-, 
science as an indig-nity, and committed the petitio- 
ners to goal for VaQix presumption .' I read in a letter 
of F. Richard Blount dated 3 June, 1605, that the 
Persecution was then surpassing by many degrees 
all former times — that the prisons in the North of 
England, are full of Catholics, that the Sheriffs 
seize upon their cattle and goods and sell them be- 
fore their faces for the King's use — that his Majesty 
thinketh Papists unworthy io be tolerated in any 
Commonwealth, and but the last day drank very 
solemnly atdinner— "To the eternal damnation of a 1 
Papists ! ! !" 

In the 3rd year of his reign he made it treason to 
reconcile any person to the Church of Rome.either 
beyond the Sea or in the realm, yet he affected to 
be a Christian ! I 



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how dangerous it is for the civil and reli- 
gious rights of subjects to depend on the 
will of any man, and especially on the ca- 
price ot a drunken and voluptuous sove- 
reign, as James unquestionably was. His 
Proclamation, dated Westminster, 4 July, 
1605, was published with great solemnity 
in Dublin, 28 September, in which his Ma- 
jesty desires that no one should hope for 
his tolerating the exercise of any other 
worship, but that of the church established 
by law ; he commanded all his subjects to 
attend the Protestant Churciies oa Sundays 
and festivals— requires all Priests to with- 
draw from the realm before 10 December; 
forbids any of his subjects to harbour any 
Priest ; and renews the penal statutes of 
the late Queen against Popish Recusants 
and Popish Priests and Jesuits, 

From an interesting letter of F. Holi- 
wood, dated 10 December, 1605, I discover, 
that to strike terror amongst the Catholic 
population of Dublin, who nobly refused to 
sacrifice their religion to Mammon — the 
Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council, had 
sent to prison on the 22nd and 27th of No- 
vember, several members of the Corpora- 
lion, and some of the principal citizens. A 
deputation of gentlemen from the Counties 
of Kildare, Meath, and Louth, upon this, 
waited on his Excellency, and petitionsd 
for a suspension of the system of coercion, 
until they could be allowed to visit his Ma- 
jesty's Court, and represent their case. 
After a delay of fifteen days, his Excellency, 
iu the exercise of despotic power, threw 
some of the deputation into gaol, and 
ordered others to confine themselves to their 
houses, and neither to write to any one, nor 
speak to any person who was not part of 
the family, under the penalty of a thousand 
pounds, English money. A large body of 
troops was assembled at Dublin, and de- 
tachments were drafted off for the appre- 
hension of Priests all over the kingdom. 
F. Holiwood incloses the lists of some of 
the Prisoners. 

The following are citizens of Dublin — 

"Mr. Walter Seagrove, John Sheltou, 
James Beelowe, Thomas Penket, Kennedy, 
Stephens, Tornor, KearroU, &c. 

These and others were first commanded 
to go to church by proclamation ; again by 
special commandment ; last by command- 
ment upon the duty of allegiance, under 
the broad seal, and therefore indicted after, 
in the Stgr Chamber, fined, and committed 
for contempt. 



In the reign of his Predecessor, 5th. Eliz. it was 
made treason to maintain the spiritual authority of 
the Pope, or to refuse to maintain the Queen's su- 
premacy in all spiritual and Ecclesiastical things 
and causes, as well as in Temporal ones. It was 
Treason by Law, 23rd. Eliz. to withdraw anyone 
from' the newly started Religion to the old Religion 
of the Country — Treason for a Priest, 27th. Eliz. to 
return to set his foot again in his native land ! ! ! 
Can we be too thankful, tolive in the present times .' 

3 P. 



Noblemen and gentlemen committed for 
putting in of a petition. 

*' My Loid Viscount of Gormanston, 

My Lord of Lowth (as I heare), 

Sir Patrick Barnwall, close Prisoner, 

Sir James Dillon. 

John Finglass, 

Richard Netervil and Henry Burnell, 
committed to their bowses only by reason 
of their adge." 

But the heart is sickened with these abo- 
minable reprisals on conscience— with these 
impious attempts of a government to force 
its novel opinions on a nation, and rob a 
people of its religious freedom. The history 
of the Irish Reformation is indeed a com- 
pound of absurdity and barbarity, unprece- 
dented in the Annals of mankind ! ! ! 

To return to F. Holiwood. He contin- 
ued in very difficult times to render essen- 
tial services to his country and to religion, 
by his zeal, wisdom, charity and fortitude, 
until his pious death, 4 September, 1616. 
His pedantic and bigotted sovereign had 
expressly denounced him in his speech to 
the Parliament, 1 May, 1614, and the 
Royal Commissioners reported in 1615, 
that, " Hollywood, a Jesuit, was kept and 
harboured by Sir Christopher Plunkett." 

From the pen of this Father we have — 

1. *' Defensio Concilii Tridentini et 
Senfentice Bellarmini de auctorilate Vul- 
galcB Editionis," with an appendix. 

2. " Libellus de investiganda vera et 
visibili Christi Ecclesia." This is a 4to. 
volume printed at Antwerp, 1604. It was 
re-printed with additions at Antwerp, in an 
8vo form, 1619, under the name of John 
Gsraldini. 

3. A Latin Treatise " De Meteoris.*' 
HouLiNG, . This Father is men- 
tioned in the Preface to F. Fitzsimon's 
" Treatise on the Mass.'* 

Hurley, William, of a noble stock and 
family of the ancient Irish. In 1649, he 
was Superior of his brethren at Limerick, 
he is described as being a Professed Father, 
aged about 50, a devout and learned reli- 
gious, and eminent forcharity and humility, 

Jautap.d, Clodius, a native of France j 
but after living sometime at Clongowes, 
died there, 25 October , 1S21. 

Johnson, David. His true name was 
Maghee, He was born ia Ireland 22 Feb- 
ruary, 1737: entered ihe Novitiate at Wat- 
ten at the age of 18, and to his religious 
merits added the distinction of eminence in 
classic literature. 

In 1764, ho was appointed Chaplain to 
the Mission of Arlington in Devonshire, 
where his Patron, John Chichester, Esq. 
shewed himself unconscious and unworthy 
of the treasure he might have possessed in 
such a pastor and companion. Death re- 
lieved this meritorious Father from his 
comfortless situation, 8 November, 1768. 

Irvine, Charles, born in Dublin, 13 
October, 1801 : admitted at Rome 2 No- 



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vember, 1821 : ordaiued Priest at Stony- 
hurst 19 September, 1835: succeeded F. 
John Weston at St. Helen's, 3 January, 
1837. This zealous Father offered himself 
to Superiors for the Calcutta Mission : his 
offer was accepted ; but the sea voyage and 
climate little suited his constitution : after 
some time he was advised to leave Calcutta 
for Singapore, but died 23 June, 1843, of 
complete exhaustion from continued sea 
sickness, just a year and a week from the 
time he left England. This polite Scholar, 
and scientific Priest, for he excelled in Natu- 
ral Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry, 
had recently been elected a member of the 
Eoyal Asiastic Society. 

*Irwin, Walter. This Scholastic died 
in France, in December 1836. 

*JoNES, James. This talented natiye of 
Ireland, was sent from the College of Car- 
low to Stonyhurst in the summer of 1805. 
For the next two years 1 had the honor of 
being his master in Grammar and Syntax. 
On my quitting the College, he pursued the 
studies of Poetry and Rhetoric with the 
highest credit, but bad health would not 
permit him to join the Novitiate. Just be- 
fore hisdeath in the last week of September, 
IS09, F. Sewall received the Vows of this 
most pious and promising youth at Liver- 
pool. 

Kearney, Barnaby, was born at Cashell 
in 1565, and was brother to David, Arch- 
bishop of Cashell. He was admitted into 
the Society at Douay in the 24th year of 
h'vs age. After teaching Rhetoric and the 
G reek Language at Antwerp and Lisle, he 
■was ordered to the Irish Mission, where he 
arrived with his nephew, F. Walter Wale, 
in the summer of 1603. Both vied with each 
other in giving themselves up to the ministry 
of the Word : and both were marked out 
for the vengeance of the government. A 
troop of horse was sent by the Viceroy to 
Cork to apprehend them at the dawn, 5 
September, I60t> ; but God delivered his ser- 
vants from their malice. F. Kearney, in a 
letter dated 4 October, that year, after 
mentioning this escape, writes that he fol- 
lowed his Excellency's footsteps to Water- 
ford, and entered that City unsuspected with 
the immense concourse of the spectators, 
and was an ear and eye witness to his 
triumphant reception. His Excellency on 
arriving at the Court House, summoned be- 
fore him eleven of the most respectable 
inhabitants of Waterford, viz. Paid Sher- 
lock, who had been elected Mayor for the 
ensuing year, Nicholas Madan, Michael 
Brown, Nicholas White, James Fagan* 
Nicholas Strong, James Sherlock, Richard 
Wadding, James Walsh, Patrick White, 
Richard Boucher ; six neglected to make 

• Tlie Fagans were generous supporters of reli • 
glon. F. Fitzsimoa, in a letter dated 25 November, 
li99, mentions, " Dominus Thomas Fagan, insignit 
Benefactor nosier," as entitled to the special prayers 
and sraUtude of the Society, 



their appearance, and were heavily flasd 
and ordered to present themselves at Cork. 
The five who attended, with great spirit, 
professed that they would never swerve 
an iota from the Roman Catholic Religion, 
which they had inherited from their Fa- 
thers ; but should ever manifest loyal al- 
legiance to their Sovereign, and obedience 
to his representatives in all civil and po- 
litical matters. His Excellency marked 
his indignation at this bold expression of 
sentiment — imposed a heavy fine, and gave 
them in charge to his Secretary, until they 
should alter their opinions. Finding them 
immovably firm in their faith, he caused 
them to appear before the Lord Chief J as- 
tice, who endeavoured to gain them over 
by promises of place and emolument, and 
assured them that the Government vrould 
be satisfied, if they would but once attend 
the Protestant service. But these heroes 
well knowing that dissimulation in Religion 
was inadmissable, refused their consent, 
telling him, that they had given, and ever 
would give undeniable proofs of their civil 
allegiance ; that it could never benefit the 
king's interests for them to act against the 
dictates of conscience ; and that they could 
not believe that the King wished them to 
make such a sacrifice of principle. The 
Sheriffs James Walsh and James Brevier 
" vere duce olives in Domo Dei'' were 
then attacked ; but with no better success. 
One hundred and sixty citizens were then 
selected as likely persons to be prevailed on 
to surrender conscience to the motives of 
fear and interest; but God, who chooses 
the weak things of the world to confound 
the strong, supplied ihem with courage to 
resist every assault, and not one, God be 
praised, of the whole number, nor even ia 
the whole population of Waterford, com- 
prising many thousands of inhabitants, 
would degrade himself by an act of hypo- 
crisy and apostacy. In revenge, tyrannical 
iniquity, calling itself justice, and the gos- 
pel of the Redeemer, inflicted pecuniary 
penalties. The base attempt of the Chief 
Justice to rob the inhabitants of Ross of 
their conscientious integrity proved equally 
abortive. " The Viceroy in his progress 
towards Carrick was informed that Nicho- 
las Madan harboured in his castle of 
Whitfeld, three miles from Waterford, a 
learned English Priest, Thomas Hill, an 
Alumnus of the English College at Rome. 
Under some specious pretext, his Excellency 
proceeded in that direction with a troop of 
horse, and sent a detachment to search 
every corner of the Castle ; but they found 
nothing, and Mr. Hill, thanks be to God. is 
still safe in Ireland." The letter is dated 
from his hiding place, where his brother, 
the Archbishop of Cashell lay also concealed 
" e nostro latibulo, ubif rater modo est, 
4 Oetobri, 1606. 

F. Kearney continued during the long 
period of 37 years, and in very difficult 



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times, the diligent and faithful Steward of 
the mysteries of God. The friend of peace, 
the promoter of habits of honest industry 
and sobriety, this true patriot, deserved to 
hfiar that his efforts to advance the public 
good, and prevent the disturbance of the 
public tranquillity, were duly appreciated 
by the constituJed authorities. Even judges 
of assizes were known to declare in open 
court, that the two Jesuits, Barnahy Kear- 
ney and Walter Wale, did more to prevent 
robbery, than all the terrors of the law, 
than all the fraraers of coercive restrictions. 
I find by a letter of F. Robert Nugent, dated 
{ex Hybernia 1 Octobris, 1640) the follow- 
ing account of his death. 

*' F. Barnaby Kearney, an old man of 
75 well spent years, quitted 20 August, the 
labors of this life, as we hope, for everlasting 
rest, fortified with all the Sacraments of the 
Church. He had spent 51 years in the So- 
ciety, and 37 in the Mission, was professed 
of the Four Vows, and was always zeSilous 
in preaching, (some of his sermons ate in 
print ;) in various places he taught the peo- 
pie with Evangelic fervour and abundant 
fruit ! 

The sermons alluded to in this paragraph 
are in Latin for the Sundays and feasts in 
the whole year. The Title of the book is 
*' Heliotropion, in 8vo. printed at Lyons 
in 1622. A second volume of his sermons, 
on the Passion of Christ, was published in 
an octavo form at Paris, in 1633. He left 
in M9. an account of the death of the Earl 
of Ormond. This nobleman, I take it, was 
Thomas Butler, called " The Black Earl," 
in whose conversion before his death, in 
1614, F. Kearney was greatly instrumental. 

Keating, Edward, was born in Leinster 
13 October, 1778, entered the Order in the 
Province of Castille, 21 May, 1737, Af- 
ter finishing his studies he was employed 
to teach Humanities for six years and Philo- 
sophy for three years. This Professed 
Father came to the Mission in 1750, and 
cultivated strenuously and usefullv the 
vineyard at Wexford, where I lose sight of 
him in 1755. 

* Kehoe, Nicholas. L fiod that F. Fran- 
cis White, in a letter, dated Kilkenny, 1668, 
earnestly recommended this Nicholas as 
truly worthy for admission for a Temporal 
Coadjutor in the Order. He was then 
52 years old ; and with the hope of 
being admitted, had served for many years 
the Father at Kilkenny. 

Kelly, Clement, the fifth of six 
sons of Mr Richard Kelly of Maynooth, 
was born 20 November, 1708 : con- 
secrated himself to God in the Society, 
within the Province of Milan, 13 January, 
1725, and came to the Irish Mission in 1741 . 
In the Catalogue of 1752 he is reported to 
be an assistant to a Parish Priest in the Dio - 
cese of Dublin : and in the Catalogue of 
1755, he is described to betheactual Parish 
Priest of the place. The truth is, when the 



Incumbent of Maynooth died, F. Kelly'i 
younger brother solicited the influence of 
James, Earl of Kildare (afterwards created 
Marquess of Kildare, and Duke ofLeinster,) 
with Dr John Linegar, Archbishop of Dub- 
Jin, who, with the consent of Rome, duly ap- 
pointed this unpretending Jesuit to hold 
that Parish. This good Religions was much 
displeased with his brother's interference, 
so contrary to all regulated custom, and de- 
clined the proffered charge ; but was ulti- 
mately prevailed on to accept the prefer- 
ment, and he continued to hold it until his 
pious death in 1777. His remains were 
deposited in the family burial ground at 
Laragh Bryan. 

With the approbation of the aforesaid 
nobleman, F. Kelly erected a new house 
and Chapel at Maynooth. By all accounts 
he was not distinguished as a Preacher ; 
but he had the reputation of superior 
learning, and was exemplary in the faithful 
performance of every pastoral duty. 

Kelly, James. 1 meet with him as Su- 
perior of his brethren in Ireland 2 October, 
1684. He was then residing in Dublin. In 
the years 1697, 1698, 1699, he occurs Rector 
of the Seminary at Poictier?. In a letter 
6 April, 1714, it is stated in general terms 
that he had died abroad some time before, 
^Hndefessus in Vinea laborator." 

Kelly, Michael, born 27 May, 1803: 
admitted 31 August, 1822. This interior 
and solidly religious Father died deeply re- 
gretted in Dublin, 16 November, 1844. 

Kennedy, Thomas. All that I can 
glean of this Father is from a letter of F. 
Walter Lavallin's, dated Poictiers, 1 Janu- 
ary, 1713. F. Thomas Kenedy has re- 
cently sailed for Ireland prepared to meet 
every danger." 

Kenney, Peter, born in Dublin 7 July, 
1779, and studied Humanities partly at 
Carlow and Stonyhurst. Destined by Provi- 
dence to be a main Instrument to revive the 
Irish Mission of the Society, he entered 
the Novitiate at Hodder House 20 Septem- 
ber, 1804. Subsequently he removed to 
Palermo, where he finished the higher stu- 
dies and received holy Orders. In Novem- 
ber, 1811, he returned to Ireland Superior 
of his 3 Brethren, FF. Dinan, Gahan, and 
Ryan, and served ihe Chapel of St. Michan, 
the ancient Residence of the Society, and 
whose vaults had usually received there- 
mains of the Fathers who'departed this life 
in Dublin ; but at the solicitation of Abp. 
Murray, he consented to fill the situation 
of Vice President of Maynooth College for 
a limited time, and in September, 1815, 
commenced the duties of that important 
office, which he most honourably and effi- 
ciently discharged until his retirement in 
the following June. Three years later his 
interesting Band received a considerable 
accession of Scholastics from Stonyhurst, 
besides 4 FF. from Sicily viz., Charles 
Aylmer, Paul Ferley, James Buller, and 



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Bartholomew Esmonde. F. Kenney held 
the Superiority till 28 September, 1817. 
During this interval he had effected the 
purchase of Castle Brown or Clongowes 
Wood, Co.Kildare. Possession was taken 
4 March, 1814, and Schools were opened 
on the ensuing 4 J uly. Of this noble Col- 
lege F. Kenney was appointed 1st Rector. 

In consequence of the General's Orders, 
F. Kenney proceeded in 1819 on a visit to 
the American Mission, S. J. (which since 
the revival of the Order in 1803» had de- 
pended solely and immediately on the Ge- 
neral himself,) and he gradually organized 
every thing according to the Institute of 
St. Ignatius, and infused his own spirit 
amongst the members. On his return to 
Ireland, he was again, 27 August, 1822, 
declared Superior of his BB : and when the 
Irish Mission was erected into a Vice- 
Province in 1829, the General nominated^him 
the first Vice-Provincial. In 1830 he was 
once more directed to proceed to the United 
States of America, whence he did not return 
till 1 October, 1833. Whilst there, he re- 
covered the Old Residence ot the Society 
and the Church of St. Joseph in Philadel- 
phia : and in July 1833 he published in 
George Town College the General's decree 
for forming the American Mission into a 
Province of the Order, and he duly instal- 
led F. Wm. Mc. Sherry, a native of Vir- 
ginia, the 1st Provincial. Soon after re- 
joining his Irish B.B., F. Kenney was 
reinstated Vice Provincial, and he filled 
that office till June, 1836. 

As a preacher of the highest order F. 
Kenney, is justly celebrated. At the dedica- 
tion of Tuam Cathedral 18 August, 1836, 
he preached before the Archbishops of Ar- 
magh, Tuam and Cashell ; the Bishops of 
Raphoe, Meath, Carlow,Kilmore, Killaloe, 
Galway, Killala, Elphin, Down, and Ar- 
dagh, and an immense confluence of Clergy, 
and an over-flowing audience of distin- 
guished Catholic and Protestant laymen. 
At the Public dinner after the Ceremony 
his Grace of Tuam, Dr. Mc. Hale, in pro- 
posing the health of the illustrious Preacher, 
who had delighted and edified an auditory 
composed of every class of Christians, was 
pleased to add "the Pathos with which 
the truths of Religion had been delivered 
that day, shewed they were the out power- 
ing of a Spirit which almost appeared under 
the influence of divine inspiration. His 
Grace descanted on the profound humility 
of the Preacher, resembling that of St. John 
the Baptist — and observed that in the long 
and useful career of this humble Father, he 
had always been careful to throw the oil of 
charity over the troubled waters of Society, 
and ever most strenuous in recommending 
thatall denominations of Christianity should 
unite in promoting Peace and good will 
amongst their fellow men." 

To this enlightetied, zealous and indefati- 
gable Father, Religion is chiefly indebted 



for the foundation of the Seminary at Tul - 
labeg, near TuUamore, King's County, and 
for the erection of the Residence and 
Church of St. Francis Xavier in Dublin. 

To this venerable Friend and Father I 
may apply the words ivch. of Job, " Ecce 
docuisti multos et manus lassas roborasti; 
vacillantes conjirmaverunt sertnones tut, 
et genua trementia confortasti,'* 

This dear Father, now fuller of merits 
than of days, was recommended by the Fa- 
culty to winter in 184)1 in a warmer climate. 
He left Ireland for this purpose in the au- 
tumn ; but perhaps the journey was more 
than his delicate constitution could bear, 
for he reached Rome but to die. The ex- 
cursion to Marseilles was rendered most 
fatiguing by the inundations throughout 
the S, of France. On 29 October, he sailed 
from Marseilles in the Lopoldo llo- and ar- 
rived at Rome 3 November. On Sunday 
14, says F. G. Connell his companion, he 
complained of cold and a slight fever. On 
Thursday he was able to sit up in his room 
the greater part of the day. " On Friday 
morning symptoms of apoplexy became so 
alarming, thathe was bled, and in the course 
of the evening, F. Glover heard his confes- 
sion and F. Lalroix administered Extreme 
Unction, and he expired in F. Esmonde's 
arms and mine without a struggle or a groan 
at half past 10 P.M. 19 November." After 
his death a painting was taken of this 
Apostolic Man. 

KlERNAN, or KiRWAN, Bernard. Thi« 
excellent and well disposed Missionary, 
'* insignis operarius et bonce voluntatis " 
had returned from Spain to Ireland early in 
1686. Twelve years later I find him la- 
bouring in the Dublin Mission. This "pious 
and irreproachable Father" died abroad, 
early in the last century. 

KiERAN, or KiRwAN, DoMiNicK, wa& 
making his third year of Probation at Li- 
raerick in Dec. 1633. and was recommended 
as successor to F. Maurice Ward, who had 
died at Galway on the 2nd of the preceding 
month. After the Revolution he retired to 
Poictiers and was courteously invited by 
the French Fathers to sojourn at La Fleche, 
where, I think, he ended his days. This ve- 
nerable man certainly died before April of 
the year 1714, as I find by F. Antony 
Knoles' letter of that date, who stiles 
him ^*prcBstans operarius." 

King, John, of Meath, was born24 June, 
1715, and aggregated himself to the Society 
in the Province of Seville, 18 August, 1741. 
He returned to serve the Mission of his na- 
tive country in 1750, and was promoted to 
the rank of a Professed Father 15 August 
1755, whilst assisting in the care of souls at 
Galway. 

Kirk, Thomas, made his Noviceship un - 
der F. John Young at Kilkenny. A letter 
dated Dublin, 2 October, 1684, informs us 
that he had just been discharged from Kil- 



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kenny prison. Further particulars I canaot 
discover. 

Knoles, Anthony, a very superior 
man, and for 20 years at least, and in criti- 
cal times had the direction of his bre- 
thren. Some of his letters dated from Wa* 
terford, his usual place of residence, are 
extant. The first is dated 25 Novem- 
ber, 1694, and describes the excessive vigi* 
lance of the Government to prevent Catho- 
lic education ! / / and the renewal for this 
purpose of the barbarous enactment of 
Queen Elizabeth ! ! ! In a 2nd letter of the 
17th of February, 1695, he says, search 
had been made by the magistrates of Kil- 
kenny, for the three Jesuits in that tovcn, 
for presuming to instruct children ; but he 
had fortunately removed them in i'ime,"non 
sine civium dolore ac tucluJ* In a third 
letter of 21 Nov. 1695, he states the recent 
Irish Statute for all regulars to depart the 
realm before the 1st of the ensuing May, and 
that no Priest whatsoever should be suffered 
to enter Ireland after the next Michaelmas, 
In a 4th letter, written from Waterford gaol 
26 December, 1696, he says, he hail been 
committed a prisoner with all the clergy of 
the diocess of Waterford four weeks before: 
and he understood the same rigorous pro- 
ceeding had been restored to in other parts 
of the kingdom. From another quarter I 
collect this imprisonment was not protract- 
ed beyond I.S weeks. In a fifth letter dated 
Waterford, 30 December, 1697, he says, 
that four days before, all the ecclesias- 
tics of the city had been summoned be- 
fore the Protestant Bishop and Dean, to 
make a declaration of their office and order, 
and to hear the proclamation for our ba- 
nishment. 

In another letter of 15 November, 1718, he 
says, *' all our chapels are closed ; the pas- 
tors are 6ed : in some places the laity are 
dragged into Court to swear what priest's 
Mass they have heard during the last six 
months, in what place, and who were pre- 
jsent ; and on refusal lo answer, suffer the 
confiscation of part of their property." On 
the 6th of April, 1713, he writes that for 
the last three months he had been a fugi- 
tive from his usual residence ; but that God 
had enabled him to be the instrument of 
good — that eleven members «f the Society 
were then in Ireland, On the 3rd of July, 
.1714, he says, that " his brethren were ob- 
liged to desist from their usual labours, and 
kept in their hiding holes, for no priest can 
be seen in public." So much for Protes- 
tant freedom and toleration in the 18th 
Century ! ! 

Further details of F. Knoles I look for 
in vain. 

Latin, James. All that I cao gather con- 
cerning this zealous Father is from two let- 
ters, one dated from W^ai<?i/ord, (Manapia) 
10 October, 1612, the other from Galway, 
3 August, 1643. The first informs me, that 
though many Priests and Religious had 

3q. 



been seized and executed by the Puritans, 
yet F. James Latin, and two of his Breth- 
ren braved every danger, and were indefati- 
gable in assisting and consoling the 
Catholics groaning under Puritanical des- 
potism. In the Post'script the writer says, 
hehad just received intelligence of F. Latin's 
apprehension and commitment to goal. 
The second states, that he was still a 
prisoner, and that he had been apprehended 
in the street in the act of proceeding to ad- 
minister the sacraments to the sick. 

Lavallin, Walter, was certainly apn 
pointed Rector of the Seminary at Poictiers 
in 1709. He was still filling the same ofiice 
6 September, 1714, when he addressed a 
letter to his Superior, acquainting him of 
his having erected a new public Chapel for 
the use of the College ; and that the expen- 
ses had exceeded his original calculation, 
but that he had not contracted, nor would 
contract, any debt, which he was not able 
to discharge. 

Laurence. . This Father is men- 
tioned in a letter of 28 September, 1607. 

* Lawless, Peter. This meek and 
humble Temporal Coadjutor died at Clon- 
gowes 9 January, 1831, Soc. 9. 

Lawndy, Thomas, was the acting Su- 
perior of the Irish Mission in 1623, 4, 5, 
as his letters demonstrate, and appears to 
have had babits of business. 

Leary, Thomas, arrived in Ireland du- 
ring the latter end of 1657, and was sta- 
tioned at Waterford. When F. Andrew 
Sail, (of whom we have made mention in a 
note to the article on Ignatius Brown,) 
was apprehended in that city 22 January 
following, and thrown into jail, F. Leary 
supplied his place in town and country with 
great spirit and success. In 1669 1 meet 
him at Cashell, where he witnessed the re- 
markable cure of his niece Elizabeth, 
Xaveria Leary, of dysentery and deafness, 
after performing a Novena in honor of St, 
Francis Xavier. The fact was certified by 
the grand Vicar of Cashell, as F. Stephen 
Rice reports it in the Annual letters. After 
this event I lose sight of him. 

Lee, Patbick, was the first Novice ad- 
mitted into the house of Probation at Kil- 
kenny. In this Novitiate,* erected under 
the auspices of the Blessed Virgin Mary, F. 
Lee imbibed the genuine spirit of the So- 
ciety, which is essentially the spirit of zeal 
and charity. Whilst in the prime of life, 
this fervent and highly gifted Father de-- 
voted himself to the care of the infected 

» 

•The foundress of (he Novitiate was (he Lady- 
Elizabeth Nugent, (Countess of Kildare. and sister 
to the Earl of Westmeath,) who died, after an illness 
of eight months, most piously. 26 October, 1645, 
" Hcec vere erat Mater Socielalis notirce in hoc 
Regno," says F. Robert Nugent in his letter 31 Oc- 
tober. 1645. This Novitiate flourished at Kilkenny 
for four years, under that able master of spirituality, 
F. John Young. It was then removed to Galway in 
1649, and in the autumn of the year following, the 
young men were transferred to the Continent, and 
draftei among the various provinces of the Society. 



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when Kilkenny was ravaged with the pes- 
tilence. It is incredible how this angel of 
comfort assisted, relieved and restored so 
many of his fellow creatures by his heroic 
courage, active zeal, and medical services : 
for he was the Physician of body as well 
as of soul. At length he fell a victim of 
charity 27 March, 1650, fthe day before the 
town surrendered to the besiegers,) in the 
most edifying sentiments of piety and joy. 
His death was justly regarded as a public 
calamity. 

Lenan, Patrick. With regret I am 
obliged to confess that I can barely state of 
this worthy Jesuit, that 1 find him actively 
employed in Leinster, in February, 1603, 
and in February, 1605. 

I believe he is the person thus reported by 
the Royal Commissioners in 1615,*' Lennon, 
a famous Priest is kept by Nicholas Ne- 
terville." 

LiswABD, Edward, was boin at Clon- 
mel 1 February, 1715, and joined the So- 
ciety at Salamanca, 5 May, 174!. Nine 
years later he revisited his native Country 
as a Missionary, and was placed by Supe- 
riors at Dungarvon. After his Profession 
of the Four Vows, 15 August, 1755, I can 
no longer trace him. 

Locke, Edward. His letter dated 
Dublin, 27 February, 1670, informs us, 
that after a long and tedious journey, he 
had reached Dublin seven days before — that 
owing to the very severe winter he had re« 
malued about six weeks in London, before 
he took shipping for Dublin — that he had 
left Dr. Oliver Plunkett behind (in whose 
company he had travelled from Rome) — 
that he returned to Dublin the very same 
hour that he had quitted it thirty-five years 
before — that the new Superior of the Mis- 
sion, F. Richard Burke, arrived at the 
same time, of whose character he speaks 
highly, and of whose future government he 
augurs most favourably — that be had wai- 
ted on the most illustiious Archbishop Dr. 
Peter Talbot, who was a sincere friend to 
the Order. The Father gives it as his opin. 
ion, that the distress of the country cannot 
be equalled elsewhere. I learn from F. 
Stephen Rice's Annual Letters, that F. 
Locke died at Dublin in the year following, 

in Missione el alibi de Societate bene 
meritus." 

Lombard, .John, nephew to Dr. Peter 
Lombard, Archbishop of Armagh. The 
first time that I meet him is in September, 
1607. Some time after he came to the Irish 
Mission, which he served until his death, 
fiboutthe middle of March, 1642. He is 
reported by his Superior to have been 
" eminent for the example of a religious 
life; and for his laborious industry during 
the many years he cultivated the vineyard." 

Long, William, was born in 1601. 
Pere Verdier, who visited him at Wexford 
in 1649, describes him as *' valde religio- 
«us." In the sequel he obtained dis- 



tinguished reputation as a Catechist. I find 
him actively engaged at Dublin in 1669, in 
the work of the ministry. 

Lynch, Mark. In a letter of F. An- 
thony Knoles, written 26 Dec. 1696, from 
Waterford, he says, "if any thing untoward 
should happen to me, I will consign our 
affairs to the charge of F. Mark Lynch ; 
for he is learned and prudent, and tenacious 
of religious discipline." F. Lynch, how- 
ever, was himself sent into banishment 
within two years. Repairing to the Semi- 
nary at Poictiers, he was invited by the 
French Jesuits to take up his abode in the 
Royal College at La Fleche. He had been 
Rector of the seminary at Poictiers, as I 
discover by a letter of 31 March, 1712, 
when he was recommended as a fit person 
to govern it a second time. 

Lynch, Nicholas, (sometimes called 
Leynach) applied from St. Anthony's Col- 
lege, Lisbon, 25 Sept. 1598, "to be named, 
though an unworthy and useless servant, 
amongst the labourers in theholy and happy 
mission of Ireland." His earnest petition 
was granted. Munster was assigned to 
him and his colleague, F. Andrew Morony, 
as a field for Apostolic labor ; and this 
Province had cause to say, in the words of 
the Acts xvi. 17, " These men are servants 
of the High God, who declare the way of 
salvation." In a letter dated, ex deser- 
tis Hi/bernice,'' 3 April, 1605, " he recom- 
mends that none be sent over to this Mission 
but men that are ripe and sedate, conversant 
with the Institute of the Society, interior, 
solid, and mortified men ; for such are truly 
required for this new plantation ; not in- 
discreet young men, conceited in tbeir own 
judgment." F. Nicholas was still living in 
February, 1622. 

Lynch, Patrick, was superior of his 
Brethren in Dublin, 1693, and 1694. 
Query. Was he not related to John Lynch, 
Archdeacon ofTuaro, Author of that rare 
octavo volume, printed at St. Malo, in 1669, 
" Pit Antistitis Icon, sive de Vila et 
Morte, Rmi D Francisci Kirruani, Alia- 
densis Episcopi .'" It fetched at Heber's 
sale, December, 1834. 18/. 10s. 

Lynch, Kichard, was a boy in Galway, 
in 1611, and united himself to the Society 
at Compostella, in 1630. This eminent 
Scholar and Doctor of Divinity for more 
than a quaiter of a century was the admira-' 
tion of the Universities of Valladolid and 
Salamanca, it is said, he died in 1676. 
He left for posterity — 

1. " Cursus Philosophies'' 3 vols. fol. 
Lyons, 1654. 

2. Spanish Sermons. Salamanca. 1670. 

3. '* De Deo, ultimo Fine." 2 Vols. 
Salamanca, 1671, 

Lynch, Thomas, one of the 260 Jesuits, 
and victims of Portuguese tyrannical ini- 
quity, who arrived! at Civita Vecchia, from 
the Brazils, in the summer of 1760. In a 
letter of F, John Thorpe, dated Rome, 6 



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August, that year, he mentions the arrival 
of 20 of these Confessors of Christ, the 
evening before, in the Eteroal City, and 
says, " I found one, who spoke English. 
He proved to be the celebrated F, Thomas 
Lynch, formerly a Provincial in the Brazils, 
and greatly esteemed for learning, sanctity 
and apostolical labours amongst the English 
there, as well as the Indians. He is 75 
years old, and had retired to the College of 
Bahia, where he was spiritual Father, 
when he was suddenly seized with his 
brethren, by the Portuguese Government, 
and hurried on board a ship, bound to 
liisbon." They were all kept under the 
hatches during the voyage, like so many 
Guinea slaves ! 

Mac-Carthy, Nicholas, was born in 
Dublin ; and in early fnfancy was taken to 
France. At the age of 46, he was ordained 
Priest, and made his debut as a Preacher 
in 1820, in the Church of the Visitation 
Nuns at Paris. Amongst his auditors was 
the late Cardinal Weld. In 1829, he was 
offered a Mitre, but declined it, to enter 
amongst the Jesuits. France regarded him 
as the ablest of her preachers Few Chris- 
tian orators have ever announced the word 
of God, with more dignity, or defended 
Religion with more effect, or advocated the 
cause of charity with greater force and elo- 
quence. He preached the Lent of 1833, in 
the Cathedral of Annecy. Exhausted with 
fatigue in the laborious work of his ministry, 
he became unwell on Easter Tuesday, on 
his return from Charaberri. Fever rapidly 
increased upon him. After receiving all 
the rites of the Church, and joining in the 
prayers for a departing soul with surprising 
firmness, he raised his eyes towards heaven ; 
then fixing them on his crucifix, with a 
countenance beaming with hope and joy, he 
meekly died at Annecy, 3 May, 1833, aet. 
64, if " L'Arni de la Religion" states it 
correctly. 

• iViAc Clue, Joseph, This good Bro- 
ther, after a long and painful illness, died at 
Clongowes Wood, 19 May, I82LSoc, 8. 

Mac-Egan, Florence, was bom 4 April, 
1719, and was admitted into the Order of 
the Province of Naples, 24 October, 1737. 
He was raised to the rank of a Professed Fa- 
ther, 2 February, 1755, and died at Rome, 
7 December, 1781. He had the reputation 
■of being an excellent preacher. See p. 60 of 
the Second Supplement IJibliothecae Scrip- 
torum Soc. Jesu, Roraae. 1816. 

Mac-Guire, Thomas, (sometimes called 
Maccharius) was educated it seems in Flan- 
ders. F. Robert Nugent reports of him in 
1640 that all the Consultors (assembled to 
consider his degree in the Society^ agreed 
that F. Mac-Guire was a very superior 
classic scholar, well versed in Greek and He- 
brew Literature, and in sacred and profane 
History, and a good preacher ; that he had 
ready for the press *' a volume of in- 
scripdons ^ concerning the Heroes of the 



Old and Neiv Testament," that the work 
had been n\uch commended by those who 
read it in Flanders, and prays permission for 
its publication there. About two months 
later, F. Mac-Guire was ordered with 
FF. Michael Chamberlin, and Matthew 
Hartegaa, to attend the Royal army. This 
fatiguing duty brought on Fever; and I find 
from a postscript of a letter of the said Su- 
perior, dated 22 November, 1640, that he 
had just received intelligence that " this 
upright, learned, zealous and indefatigable 
Missionary," had sunk under it.* 

Mac-Mahon, James, born in Ulster, 24 
July, 1705, and enrolled himself in the So- 
ciety in the Province of Toledo, at the age 
of 20. He came to the Mission in 1738. 
The last 13 years of bis life he spent at 
Limerick, in a very debilitated state of 
health. God was pleased to release him 
from his sufferings in 1753. 

*Mac Mahon, John ; this pious lay- 
brother died at Tullabeg, 9 September, 1822. 
Soc. 1. 

Mac-Swiney, Patrick. After finishing 
his studies at Thoulouse, he came to the 
Irish Mission in 1671, and was stationed 
in County Cork. Twenty-three years later 
he was still labouring, amidst much distress 
and privation, in a wild part of the country. 
His skill in the Irish language rendered his 
ministry specially useful to his very poor 
parishioners. 

Magrath, William. This Professed 
Father had taught Theology for many years 
at Lisbon. He was Superior at Cashel, in 
1649; and though nearly 70 years of age, 
was of a robust constitution, renowned for 
virtue and learning, and an admirable 
preacher. 

Mahony, Constantine, born at Mus- 
kerry, in the County of Cork, and often 
called " Cornelius a Sancto Patritio." 
Harris, p. 121, Book I, of the writers of 
Ireland, describes him as " a Jesuit of a 
most virulent temper, and says that he pub- 
lished a book under the feipned name of 
Constantine Marullus, entitled, " Dispu- 
iatio Apologelica et Manijesliva de Jitre 
Regni Hibernice pro Catholicis Hibernis 
adversus Hcerelicos Anglos,'' 4to. Frank- 
fort, 1645. Harris's character of the work 
and of its author must be read with caution : 
much is evidently grounded on the hearsay 
of enemies. One assertion, that Pope 
Gregory XIII, had granted to Owen Rowe 
O' Neil a Bull in 1642, '* whereby all the 
actors in the bloody massacre of the fore- 
going year are blessed," is the compound 
of the vilest absurdity and most atrocious 
falsehood. That good old Pope had been 
honestly dead and buried 57 years before 
the appearance of this Irish Bull ! F. 
Mahony was still living in 1650, at Lisban, 
but far advanced in years. 

♦ See the beautiful tribute to the Missionaries. S J. 
by Mr. Charles Waterton iu his " Wanderings in 
South America" (Fernambuco .) 



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Malcan, Joseph. This Irish Father, 
as I find in a letter of F. Thorpe, died sud- 
denly at Rome, 7 December, 1781 ; but I 
can glean no further particulars, and am al- 
most inclined to suspect that this is the 
same person as F, Mac-Egan. 

M ALONE, William, a native of Dublin : 
enrolled himself at Rome, in 1606, amongst 
the children of St. Ignatius. After pursu- 
ing his studies in that city, and finish- 
ing them in Portugal, he was ordered to the 
Irish Mission, to which, during nearly a 
quarter of a century, he rendered good ser- 
vice, by his splendid talents, apostolic zeal, 
and extraordinary prudence. Recalled from 
Dublin, where he was Superior of his Bre- 
thren, in the early part of the year 1635, to 
preside over the Irish College of St. Patrick 
at Rome, founded by Cardinal Ludovisi, he 
continued its Rector during the space of 
several years. Of his talents for Govern- 
ment, his brethren had formed the highest 
opinions. In a letter now before me, ad- 
dressed by Robert Nugent, Superior of the 
Irish Mission, to the General Viielleschi, 
14 March, 1641, he earnestly conjures him 
" not to yield to his petition of being re- 
leased from the Rectorship of the College, 
however painful such pre-eminence may be 
— that he knows no one at present quali- 
fied to succeed hira in that office — that there 
is not one of his brethren so conversant with 
the state of this Kingdom and Mission — 
none so thoroughly acquainted with the 
character of the Irish youth as F. Malone." 
On 23 December, 1647, F. Malone was ap- 
pointed Superior of the Irish Mission in the 
place of the said F. Nugent. His superi- 
ority fell in most difficult times. 

la a letter dated Water ford, 15 March, 
1649, he says, how thankful he should be to 
be relieved from it— that the burthen was 
heavier on his shoulders than Mount ^Etna, 
insomuch that he could say with the A- 
postle (2 Cor. i. 8,) he *' was even weary 
of life.** Naturally of a most placid dis- 
position, he found it impossible, during the 
period of the Interdict, to give satisfaction 
to the Party supporting the Nuncio, John 
Baptist Riuuccini* (a prelate ignorant of 
the country, and of very high pretensions), 
and the conflicting interests of the supreme 
Council at Kilkenny. During the siege of 
Waterford, he was in the town : on its 
capture by the enemies of the Catholic 
Faith, he was apprehended and sent into 
banishment. On reaching Seville his talents 

♦ The Latin Report of his Nunciature in Ireland 
is in the Halkam Library and as translated by 
Archdeacon Glover, may be read in the Catholic 
Miscellany of October, November, and December, 
1829. See also " Hibernia Dominicana," — also 
Third Section of the " Pclitioal Catechism." by T. 
Wyse, Esq. London, 1829.— Lord Castlemaine, p. 
277, of the " Caiholic Apology," 3rd edition, says 
that The Pope on being informed of the Nuncios' 
conduct, recalled him, and sent hira to his Bishop- 
rick, where he lived to his dying day in disgrace, 
and never had the least preferment afterwards." 
He died 13 December, 1653, aet, 61. 



for government were put in requisition, as 
Rector of F. Gregory's College in that city. 
There he consummated his course of uselul- 
ness by the death of the righteous, in Au- 
gust, 1656, set. 70. 

F. Malone will always rank among the 
ablest Champions of Orthodoxy in that im- 
mortal work intitled " A Reply to Mr, 
James Ushers His Answere,** 4to. 1627, 
pp. 717. It was printed at Douay ; but 
F. Southwell incorrectly fixes the date of 
publication to the year 1608. The admira- 
ble dedication of the work to King Charles 
I. is abundant evidence of the Author's 
loyalty and undivided Allegiance, as well 
as of his Patriotism. Harris's notice of 
this truly learned work satisfies me, that he 
had never ventured to read it. See p. 130, 
Book I. Writers of Ireland. Dr. Synge, 
Archbishop of Tuam, and Dr. Joshua 
Hoyle, would have consulted their literary 
fame, bad they not attempted to grapple 
with F. Malone. 

N.B. Hollingworth in his Chronicles of 
Manchester, p. 95, incorrectly says that F, 
W, Malone was the son of Simon Malone, 
and was born in Manchester, A. 1592. 

M4NBY, Peter, was in Portugal in the 
spring of 1714, and had applied, as I find 
by F. Anthony Knoles's letter, dated from 
Hoss, 6 April, that year, to come over to 
serve the Irish Mission. 

Mead, Robert. The first time that 1 
meet with him is in the Lent of 1671, when 
he gave Evening Instructions twice each 
week at Cork, and twice also at Kinsale. 
In a letter dated Waterford, 25 November, 
1691, he is described as well acquainted 
with the Irish language, living in a very 
desolate part of the country, and in great 
poverty; but zealous, and fruitfully enga- 
ged in the work of the Ministry. He died 
abroad, an exile for the Faith, and in advan- 
ced years, as I find by a letter written in 
1714), and he is said to have been " impiger 
concionator .** 

Meagh, John, made his Noviceship at 
Naples. As a preparation for the Irish 
Mission, ho was ordered to cultivate the 
vineyard in Bohemia. There he was mas- 
sacred " odio Religionis'' by some Swedish 
soldiers, 31 May, 1639. set. 41. See the life 
of this Irish Father in Tanner, also his no- 
tice in F. John Drews' Fasti, S. J.* 

Meagher, Patrick. This ReverencJ 
Father died in Tipperary, June, 1829. 

Meara, James, left the school of the So- 
ciety at Drogheda, with William Plunkett, 
for Rome, in 1671. 

Moran, Patrick, of Wicklow. This Fa- 
ther died at Buenos Ayres^ 30 April, 1829, 
8et.45. Soc. 19, to which Mission he had 
volunteered his services. Weak and deli- 
cate in constitution, he possessed great 
activity and strength of mind : and was 

• This posthumous work was printed in 1723, a t 
Bruiisberg, and contains 516 pages. 



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always etger to labor in the service of 
Religion. 

More, John. He was living at Drog- 
heda, in 1642. but in October that year 
succeeded in escaping thence from Puri- 
tannical fury. Subsequently he was ap- 
pointed Chaplain to Sir Richard Blake. 
When Pere V^eidier visited hira in the early 
part of the year 1649 he found him Supe- 
rior of his Brethren at Galway, and re- 
ported him as being a Septuagenarian, as a 
man of consummate probity, and conspica- 
ous for charity and humility. I fear it 
will be nearly impossible to ascertain the 
date of his death. 

MoRONY, Andrew. As early as 7 Sep- 
tember, 1599, F. Fitzsimon recommended 
hira as a fit person to be employed as a Mis- 
sionary in the south of Ireland. That he 
was so employed, is evident from F. Field's 
letter, 25 February, 1603. Four years 
later I meet hira still at Munster. 

MoRONY, Joseph, was born at Limerick., 
19 March, 1714, and joined the Society at 
Bordeaux, 4 September, 1734. Twelve 
years later he came to the Mission, and 
■was placed in his native city. On 28 June, 
1752, he was numbered with the Professed 
Faiheis. F.Joseph Morony became cele- 
brated as a Preacher in Limerick, Water- 
ford, and several parts of the Province of 
Munster, and left 2 Vols, of discourses prin- 
ted in Dublin, l2mo, 1796. The Ibt Vol. 
contains 260 pp : the 2nd 309 pp. A good 
judge informs me they were solid instruc- 
tions in a plain stile, but without any evi- 
dence of great genius or eloquence. I think 
he died in Dublin. 

MoRTY, In a letter of F. James 

Quemerford, dated Madrid, 2 September, 
1607, he says " B. Murtie was all these 
three months sick, he is now well, and like 
to prove ' a miracle in matter of Learning.' " 
He united with great wit and capacity a 
remarkable share of industry, and an ex- 
traordinary grace of delivery. 

IViuLCAiLLE, James, Philip, was born 
in Kilkenny, 1 May, 1726, or 1727; in the 
9th year of his age went to France, where 
he joined the Society ; returned to Ireland 
in 17tj3, with his pupil and kinsman Mr. 
Bray ; for very many years assisted the 
Parish Priests in Dublin, In the estab- 
lishment of the convent of the Presentation 
of George's hill, he lent his best support to 
Miss Mullaly. He died in their convent 8 
December, 1801, and was buried in their 
vaults wiihout any inscription. That he 
was an excellent scholar and profoundly 
versed in Greek Literature, appears to be 
generally admitted. We have from his pen 
an English Translation of Abbe Feller's 
*' Catechisnie Philosophique,^^ in 8 Vols. 
Dublin, 1800. It is pleasing to observe in 
the beginning of the 1st Volume, the sub- 
scription list for nearly 600 copies. 

Murphy, All that I can glean 

of this Father is from an Italian letter ad- 

3r. 



dressed from Dublin, 22 November, 1672, 
to the General Oliva, by the truly Vener- 
able Primate Oliver Plunkett. After ex- 
pressing his affectionate regard for the So* 
ciety, and commending the meritorious 
labors of F. Stephen Rice, and Ignatius 
Brown, at Drogheda, he mentions F. 
Murphy as a good Theologian, and an ex- 
cellent Religious, and a man of great genius 
and distinguished for his talent as a Prea- 
cher in the Irish language. 

Murphy, Cornelius, was born in Ireland 
24 October, 1696, was admitted into the 
Society, 7 September, 1711, and was Pro- 
fessed in the Order, 2 February, 1730. 
This eminently gifted Father served the 
Lancashire Mission for several years, and 
was Rector of his Brethren there, I think, 
from 1740, to 1748. He was then appointed 
Superior of his Brethren in London, and 
its vicinity. At Christmas 1759, I meet 
him at Scotney. His death occurred 31 
October, 1768.* He was the Translator of 
Pere Daubenton's Life of St. John Fran- 
cis Regis. 8vo. London, 1738, pp.368: and 
was also the Author of *' J Review of the 
important controversy concerning Mira- 
cles, and the Protestant St/stems relative 
to it : to which is added a tetter with some 
Remarks on a late Performance called 
' The Criterion of Miracles examined.' 
Octavo, London, (No date of the year) pp. 
456. It was in the appendix of this work, 
that Dr. Milner found ready arranged the 
refutation of Detector Douglas, of which 
he has made so important a use in his in- 
valuable work, " The end of Religious 
Controversy." 

Murphy, Melchior. All that I can 
learn of this venerable Father is, that he 
was formed a Spiritual Coadjutor of the 
Society, 23 October, 1695, and that he died 
at Liege, 14 February, 1736. 

♦Neil, O'Stephen. This Temporal Co- 
adjutor, who walked simply and confidently 
before God, died at Stonyhurst, 18 July, 
1826. 

Nelson, William, born in Ireland, 20 
April, 1714. His family name was O'Neil. 
This worthy Father died at Waterperry, 
in Oxfordshire, 11 July, 1770, Soc. 38. 

N.H. John Nelson, a. Temporsil Coad- 
jutor died in Dublin, 16 September, 1843, 
jet. 65, R( 1. 27. 

Netterville, Christopher, was the 
sixth son of Nicholas, the First Viscount 
Netterville, by his Lady Eleonora, as I find 
p. 199, llibernia Dominic ana.''' During 
the civil wars and the Cromwellian system 
of terror, as I learn from F. Thomas Quin's 
Report, he was compelled to conceal him- 
self like .S7. Athanasius for more than a 
year in his father's sepulchre, " instar 
primi Athanasii anno integro et amplius 
in Sepulchre paterno delituit." He was 

* Was he not related to tlie Rev. John Murphy, 
that Apostolic Priest In Dublin, and devoted friend 
of tbe Jesuits, who died 2 July, 1753, set. 52. 



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still living in ihe summer of 1649, as^a pri- 
vate Chaplain, but with a broken down 
constitution. 

Netterville, Nicholas, younger bro- 
ther of F. Christopher, (being the eighth 
son) for many years taught Philosophy in 
France wiih distinguished credit. Recalled 
to the Irish Mission, he was appointed 
Chaplain to the Duke of Tyrconnell, Vice- 
roy of Ireland. He died in Dublin late in 
the year 1607, where he had been Superior 
of his Brethren. 

Netterville, Robert. This venerable 
old man, rich in labors and merits, was 
dragged from his bed by the Parliaraenlary 
soldiers at Drogheda, 15 June, 1649, aad so 
unmercifully beaten with clubs, that he died 
four days later '* Per domum rapfatus, 
turn fustibus contusus^ effractisque ad 
collum ethumeros ossibus (15 Judii, 1649) 
relictus est semivivus. et quarto post die 
abiit e vitA. Et libro Collectaneorum 
signato F. olim in Archiv^ Coll. Angl, 
Romce. — See Tanner, Drews. 

Neville, Robert. All that I can learn 
of him is contained in a letter of F. Richard 
Burke, dated from Galway, 4 April, 1670, 
in which he repeats his petition that F. 
Robert may be recalled from the Mission at 
Madeira, to serve his native country. 

Newman, Lewis, a youth of good family, 
and a penitent of F. Wm. Malone. From 
F. Robert Nugent's letter 15 September, 
1636, it appears he had a vocation to the 
Society, and was studying Philosophy with 
several others at Dublin, under F. Henry 
Cavell. 

* Nicholas, In a letter of the mar- 

tyred Primate, Oliver Pluokett, dated 22 
November, 1672, is described as a Temporal 
Coadjutor of the Society, and as own Bro- 
ther to George, (another Coadjutor S. J.) 
of happy Memory. 

Norton, or 6'Neaghton, Peter, son 
of Teigh O'Naghton, by his wife Catharine 
Cruise. This Jesuit is mentioned by 
O'Reilly, author of the Irish Diction- 
aryy^' in an account of four hundred Irish 
Writers, 

Nugent, Dominic. The only notice I 
find of him is in a letter, dated Waterford, 
25 November, 1694. He was doing the 
duty of a Parish Priest, in a poor and 
miserable district, and labouring with great 
zeal and success. 

Nugent, Gerard ; After studying Phi- 
losophy ** extra Societatem," joined the 
Order in 1639, and commenced a course of 
Theology at Liege in 1642. Seven years 
later I meet him at Wexford, and bearing 
the character of Vir vere prudens et 
religiosus.** 

Nugent, Nicholas. I meet with two 
Members of this name. The first was of a 
distinguished family, and trained to piety 
from his cradle. It is said of him when a 
child, that hearing his elder brother dis- 
oourslng once on the hideousness and the 



enormity of a mortal sin, he conceived 
such an horror and detestation of it, that 
durin? the subsequent course of a loug life, 
he never offended his God in a grievous 
matter. Going to Antwerp, he there stu- 
died the Belles Lettres and Philosophy, 
and took the degree of Master of Arts. 
Proceeding thence to Rome, he was a Pos- 
tulant for admission into the Society. After 
two years probation, he was sent to Evora 
to study Theology. When qualified for the 
Mission in his native country, he was 
placed by Superiors about the year 1615 in 
Dublin, where he displayed the zeal of an 
Apostle. An imprisonment for the space 
of four years was the reward of his services; 
but he was no sooner discharged, than he 
resumed his Missionary functions with 
greater fervour, I find him in Galway in 
1649. In the following year he sailed for 
Oporto, where he continued to promote the 
interests of Religion by his talents, and ta 
edify all that approached him by his humi- 
lity and sanctity. He died at Oporto 2 
November, 1656, set. 77. Seep. 315, Synop- 
sis Annaliura, S. J. in Lusitania, Auclore 
P. Ant. Franco, S. J. Fol, Aug. Vindelic, 
1726, pp. 4*66. Drews fixes his death 22 
November. 

The other member was finishing his 
Noviceship at Kilkenny in 1649. The next 
year he was removed with his Brethren to 
Galway, and thence to the Continent, 
whence he returned and was living in Ire- 
land in 1670. 

Nugent, Robert, brother of F.Nicholas, 
and uncle to Baron Incltinqufn, was a man 
of the highest merit, Vir plane ill us Iris ^ 
omnique exceptione major," as Pere Ver- 
dier describes him in his Report 20 June, 
1649. The first time that 1 meet with hin» 
is in a letter of F. James Archer, dated 
from Madrid, 28 September, 1607, to F^ 
George Duras, the Assistant of Germany, 
at Rome. After signifying the departure 
of FF, James Everard and Thomas Shine- 
for the Irish Mission, he adds the anxious 
wish of their Superior, F. Holiwood, that 
FF. William Bath and Robert Nugent may 
follow them, as he has a station ready for 
them in the North of Ireland. F. Robert 
was sent to the aged Superior, who enter- 
tained the greatest esteem for him and 
made him his Socius during the latter years 
of his government. In the sequel F. Nugent, 
was appointed Superior of hii Brethren, 
and held that office for at least twenty 
years. Several of his letters are fortunately 
extant, which bear ample testimony to his 
sound discretion, unaffected zeal and piety, 
and conciliatory conduct. In one letter, 31 
October, 1645, he prays to be released from 
the duties of Superiority, alleging that he 
is now in his 70th year — a fitter age ta 
prepare himself for eternity, than to be con- 
tinued in his painful responsibility, and 
during such critical and eventful times. 

la another letter of 20 January, 1646-7, 



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after stating the difficulty of conveying 
letters to florae, acquaints the Vicar F. 
Charles Sangri, that in virtue of the in- 
junction of the late General Mutius Vitel- 
leschi, and with the advice of his consultors, 
he had some time since directed one of his 
Rev. Brethren* to compile a General his- 
tory of the Irish Mission of the Society— 
that this work had been brought down to 
nearly the present most troublesome period 
— that it was admirably and faithfully exe- 
cuted from authentic documents; but before 
thefinishing hand could be put to Iiis labours, 
the author died. Fi Nugent could not 
ascertain what had become of the Manu- 
scripts: it was well known that for some 
time they were buried underground ; but 
whether any one had removed them from 
the secret place, and had transferred them 
elsewhere, he had not been able to discover. 
He adas, that he carefully kept by him the 
points of information which he received 
annually from each Residence of his Breth« 
ren ; but that it would be a service of ex- 
treme danger, if not of ruin to them, to 
attempt to forward the papers to Rome, 
should the Puritans intercept them, lo 
this letter he mentions, that at the express 
dtsire and command of the Supreme Council, 
he had accepted the charge of the press at 
Kilkenny ; and also that he had hired a 
house in that town for the Novitiate j and 
early in February, F. John Young, who 
was a man of approved learning, and pru- 
dence, and distinguished for sanctity of 
manners, would begin to train the six No- 
vices already admitted in the spirit of the 
Institute of the Society, and that there were 
many postulants for admission. He con- 
uludes with regretting that all hopes of 
peace had now vanished, in consequence of 
the imprisonment of Edward Somerset, the 
Earl of Glamorgan,+ a most staunch Catho- 
lic, who had been sent to Ireland by King 
Charles I. with full powers ( with private 
authority independent of the Viceroy) to 
grant favourable terms to the Catholics. 
After he had concluded his treaty with the 
confederated Chiefs of Kilkenny, and had 
obtained from them a vote of 10, 000 troops 
to be transferred forthwith to England, of 

* I have reason to suspect that the compiler wa« 
F. Stephen White, df whom more in the sequel, 

. t This Edward Somerset, was the eldest son of 
Henry, first Marquess of Worcester, the staunch 
Catholic Loyalist, who had suffered the los of not 
less than three hundred thousand pounds in sup- 
porting the cause of Charles I ! ! In a letter now 
before me addressed by Karl Glamorgan to the Ge- 
neral of the Jesuits, Vincent Caraffa, and dated 
from Limerick, 22 October, 1646, he expresses 
impensissimum studium etamoremerga Societa- 
tem Jesu,"and recommends \\\* dearest Brother to 
the favourable attentions of his Reverend Paternity 
(This most certainly was Sir John Somerset. See 
p 418, Vol. X. of Ltngard's Hist.) He ends thus; 
" Nihil magis In votis est, quam ut palam mortali- 
bus omnibus testari mihiliceat quam vere et unlce 
sIm, &c. addictusplanequedevotusGLAMORGAN." 
He died in London 3 April. 1667, 



which he had been chosen and appointed 
General ; he no sooner had returned to 
Dublin, than the Viceroy committed him 
to close custody on 2S December last, and 
thus the whole negotiation and expeditioa 
had evaporated, and that now nothing was 
thought of but war. 

Before he resigned office into the hands 
of F. Malone, 23 December, 1646, he had 
been required by the Nuncio Rinuccini, to 
lend him the greater part of the funds of 
the Mission, (quatuor aureorum millia.) 
This was vainly reclaimed by subsequent 
Superiors, and the Missionaries experienced 
great inconvenience and injury in conse- 
quence, as F. Wm. St. Leger's letter, 
bearing date 16 J anuary, 1663, too well 
demonstrates. 

The last time that F. Robert Nugent 
comes across me, is in a letter of 31 Au- 
gust, 1650, where he is described as ** ait- 
tiquissimus inter nosj' but still not inca- 
pable of labor. 

NugelNt, William. I meet with two 
Members of this name. The first left Ulster 
for Rome in 1671, as we learn from the 
Annual Letters* 

The second was born in Ireland 13 April, 
1692, and was promoted to the Priesthood 
7 September, 1729. He died 14 December, 
1737; but I doubt if he continued in the 
Society. Q. Was not his name Birming* 
ham? 

Olingo, John. This unaccountable 
name (Q. Lynch ?) is given by F. Mat- 
thias Tanner, p. 347, '* Confessors of the 
Society of Jesus," to an Irish Father who 
died a victim of charity in attending per- 
sons attacked with the plague of Lisbon, in 
the Month of January, 1699. 

Patrick, James. In Pere Verdier'f 
Report of 20 June, 1649, 1 find that F. 
Patrick was tlien about thirty years old, of 
which he had spent nearly ten in the So- 
ciety, and was then filling the office of 
Procurator to his Brethren in Galway. 
He is mentioned as being dead, in a letter 
dated 25 November, 1694. 

Patrick, Maurice. This Father is 
mentioned in a letter bearing date Limerick, 
21 February, 1648. 

Plunket, Henry, (or as his lelteis 
spell the name Plunquet) was born towards 
the close of tha sixteenth century. He 
was sent by his superior of the Irish Mis- 
sion, F. Robert Nugent, at the desire of the 
confederated Chiefs, to Belgium and Rome, 
to represent the persecution of the Catholic 
Religion, and the impoverished state of the 
country. During the Interdict he was Su- 
perior of his Brethren at Kilkenny, and 
was actually living there in the summer of 
1649. 

Plunket Peter, born in Ireland ; after 
finishing all his scholastic studies with re- 
putation, he was aggregated to the Roman 
Province, and was involved in the general 
destruction of the Society in 1773. In a 



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letter of F. John Thorpe, dated Rome 7 
July, 1780, I read " that from the fatal 
period of the suppression, F. Plunkett had 
always resided in Tuscany, and chief?y at 
Leghorn, -where he is now a valetudinarian, 
under an asthma and other infirmities. For 
some time lie was Professor of Controversy 
and Morals in a chair established at Leg- 
horn by the Grand Duke." To the sur- 
prise of his friends the venerable Father was 
still living at Leghorn in the Spring of 
1804. There he died. 

Plunkett, Thomas. Began his Novice- 
ship at Kilkenny, After taking the simple 
Vows, he was sent, as 1 find in F. John 
Young's letter, dated Galvvay, April 20, 
1650, with Daniel Dowgan, or Dugan, to 
the Province of Aquitaine, to study Theo- 
logy. From that time until the announce- 
ment of his death in Dublin, 26 February, 
1697, I can learn nothing of his Biography. 

Plunkett, William. His Superior, F. 
Stephen Rice, sent him from Ulster to 
Rome in 1671, where I lose all traces of 
him. 

Pom EH, Edmund, was born 3 May, 
1734, (another catalogue incorrectly says 
1736.) and entered the Novitiate at Watten 
7 September, J 754. For several years he 
served the Mission in England. His letter 
MOW before me, dated Weston, March 14 
1769, proves, that he had then been Chap- 
lain there, at the very least two years, and 
that he was, with the permission of his 
Provincial, F, Ellior, preparing to visit 
his Father in Ireland. He died in France 
March. 1799. 

Power, James, was born in Ireland 27 
March, 1725; joined the Order in 1742, 
and was admitted to the Profession of the 
Four Vows in 1760. This highly-gifted 
scholar and very profound Mathematician, 
had taught Philosophy, &c. in France; 
but retiring to the English College, at Liege, 
died there ll March, 1788. 

Power, Paul. All that I can glean of 
this Father is, that he was appointed by 
Bishop Egan, successor to F. John St. 
Leger, in the administration of the United 
Parishes of St. Patrick and St. Olave, 
Waterford, 15 November, 1783, and con- 
tinued in the faithful exercise of that charge 
until his happy death, 22 February, 1795. 
No inscription ccvers his remains. It is 
painful to the compiler of these notes to be 
able to offer so little information ; but he 
hopes to sharpen the industry and zeal of 
others. His object is merely to gather up 
the fragments that lemain, that nothing be 
lost. 

Preston, Edmund, was born at Gor- 
manston Castle, 14 February, 1808 ; and 
was educated at Stonyhurst. This devout 
Scholastic died of a decline at Brookfield 
House, West Teignmoulh, Devon, on Sun- 
day Morning, 24 September, 182t). A sar> 
cophagus tomb on the north side of West 
Teignmouth church-yard, near the entrance 



gate, incloses his remains, and there I co- 
pied the following inscription : — 
SACRED 
To the Memory of the Honorable 

Edmund Preston, 
(Sixth son of the Right Hon. Lord 
Viscount Gormanston, of Ooimanston 
CasUe, County of Rleath, Ireland,) 
Who died at Teignmouth, 26 Sept. 1820, 
in the nineteeth year of his age. 
Purcell, Joh n. was an active Missionary 
in Dublin in the autumn of 1642. At the 
end of February following I find that he had 
become an Invalid ; but he was still living 
in that city in the summer of 1649, infirmte 
valetudinis etjam soiior. 

Punch, Nicholas. Pere Verdier in 
his Report, dated 24 Jure 1649, describes 
him as being about 47 years of age — thai 
he embraced the Institute of St. Ignatius 
after his promotion to the Priesthood, and 
that he had been 19 years in the Society, 
that he was procurator of his Brethren at 
Limerick, and gave general satisfaction, 
and that he was truly a humble man and of 
perfect candour. 

QuEMERFORD, James, (in Latin, Como- 
forthius, Comofortus, Comoforteius, ) of 
Waterford. 1 have seen a letter of this 
Father written from Madrid, 28 September, 
1607, to his Rev. Brother Richard, S.J. 
at Rome. Amongst other things he says, 
" here I am yet in Court with F. Archer, 
with matters of the Semiuarie : we have 
many sutes in hand, and goe verie slowe in 
all. Commendations to all andchieflie unto 
my good and well remembered brother Tho- 
mas Quemerford." In a letter of F.Robert 
Nugent, dated 20 July, 1640, he informs 
the General Vitelleschi, that F. James had 
died at Waterford on the 8th instant, '■^ pie 
ut vixit " — that he had laboured diligently 
in the Irish Mission for ten years, and had 
passed 39 years in the Society.* 

Quemerford, Nicholas, of Waterford, 
educated at Oxford, where he took his de- 
gree of Arts in 1562. Anthony Wood, 
(according to Hariis, p. 96, writers of Ire- 
land, but I cannot verify the passage) says, 
that after spending four years in that 
University he returned to Ireland and took 
Orders. Repairing to Lou vain, he was 
promoted to the degree of D. D. 23 June, 
1576, on which occasion his countryman 
Peter Lombard, who ranked " Primus 
Universilatis" wrote " Carmen Heroicum 
in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfvrdi." 
p. 2l9, vol. 1. Athenae. Oxon. Afterwards 
he became a Jesuit and died in Spain. He 
wrote in English a learned discourse in- 
titled " Answers to certain Questions 
propounded hy the citizens of Waterford'^ 
also " Sermons" and other works." 

* Gerard ^Kemer/orc?, a native of Ireland, joined 
the English tiovi/ite of ihe Society in 1651, get 19, 
and was studying his second year of Divinity at 
Liege in 1655. What relation was he to F. James 
Quemerford ? 



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QuEMERFORD, RicHARD. He was in bad 
health al Ri>me in the autumn of 1607, and 
Archer recommended his being sent to 
the Irish Mission. 

QuEMERFORD. Thomas, brother ofFF. 
James and Richard, studied at Rome. In 
a letter writien from Ireland, 15 September, 
16;^6, 1 read as follows;—" A few days 
since died at Waterford F. Thomas Come- 
forteius, formerly educated at Rome. The 
zeal and learning he acquired there he 
exercised here with great profii : he died, 
holily as he had lived, to the great regret 
of all our Brethren and of all who knew 
him." 

QuiN, James, born 15 September, 169S, 
On 7 fceptember, 1717, he entered tiie No- 
vitiate : was admitted to the rank of a 
Professed Father, 16 June, 1735, in Mary- 
land, and died in that Mission, 27 Novem- 
ber, 1745. 

QuiN, Thomas. This worthy Jesuit 
was stationed in Dublin in 1642. In a 
letter of F. Robert Nugent, dated Manapia, 
(Waterford.) 10 October, 1642, he speaks 
highly of his unremitting zeal and chanty 
— thai he was a source of cimfort to the 
aflBicted citizens — that he was all to all — 
that he assumed occasionally the military 
uniform, dow the habit of the gentry, occa- 
sionally the dress of a peasant, to elude 
Puritan vigilance, and to introduce himself 
into Catholic houses. Pere Verdier, in the 
course of his visitation nearly seven years 
later, could not get access to the metropolis, 
but stales the general opinion of F. Quin's 
invaluable services as a Missionary. I 
have seen a brief report of his, written 
when Superior of the Mission, on the con- 
dition of the Irish Catholics in 16.52 and 
1650. Three years later he was at Nantz, 
•whence he removed to St. RJalo. He died 
7 Aufiust- 1663. -See also pp. 677— «82 of 
the Hibernia Dominicana. 

Ratterv, Thomas. All that I can ga- 
ther of the history of this good Father is 
from a letter of his Su|)erior F. Thomas 
Lawndy, dated ex Hibernia, "22 February, 
1625. ''It has pleased the Divine Mercy 
to call to himself from this mortal life, on 
the feast of the Purification of the B. V". 
Mary, F. Thomas Raughlery, a man of un- 
blemished purity, in our opinion. Such was 
the general estimation ot his sanctity, that 
•persons of the highest distinction contended 
with each other for the honour of bearing 
his corpse to the grave — all were anxious to 
obtain some memorial of him. This father 
wassofuU ol huii.ility, that he deemed him- 
self totally unworthy of being admitted 
into the Society ot Jesus ; insomuch, that 
for several years he did not venture to dis- 
cover his vocation. After my arrival here, 
(he had known me when 1 was a young 
man studying Philosophy in France) he 
took courage and explained his wishes to 
rae, I could not hesitate, knowing his vir- 
tue and progress in learning, &c. to accept 

3 s. 



hiin, and I sent him to Rouen for his Proi. 
bation. On his return home, whilst his 
strength allowed him, no one was more 
eager to labour in the vineyard: but at 
length, from age and infirmity he was under 
the necessity of confining his services to 
the Catechistical instructions of youth." 

Redan, Petek, a native of IMeath, joined 
the Society at Salamanca, in 1628. For 
several years he was Rector of the Irish 
College in that city, where he died 1st Au- 
gust, 1651, set. 44, leaving behind him the 
reputation of a good Religious, and an ex- 
cellent Greak and Hebrew Scholar. The 
first volume of his Commentary on the 
Books of the Maccabees was published in 
folio at Lyons, in ihe year 1651, The se- 
cond volume, ready for the Press, was in 
the College Library at Salamanca, when 
Father N. Southwell edited the Bibliotheca 
Scriptorum, S.J. in 1676. 

Reilly, Daniel, was in the Novitiate at 
Kilkeimy when Perd Verdier made his re- 
port, 24 June, 1649. 

Uicii, Stfphen, began his Noviceship at 
Kilkenny, and in the sequel became a lead- 
ing man amongst his Brethren. The Vene- 
rable Primate Archbishop Plunkett, of glo- 
rious memory,* in a letter addressed from 
Dublin !22 November, 1672, to the General 
S. J. Father John P. Oliva, extols Father 
Rice, then Superior ot his brethren, for his 
learniog, disinterested and indefatigable 
zeal, fervid eloquence, remarkable discretion, 
and profound leligious virtue; he adds, that 
this good Father has all the modest diffidence 
of a Novice, that he is a true son of St. 
Ignatius, and full of the spirit of the In- 
stitute. This saintly primate had founded a 
Residence for the Father in Diogheda, alias 
O Deart, als Pontana; and in their School 
he says were 150 Pupils, besides forty Pro- 
testant young Gentlemen that attended the 
Classes. In a second letter to the same, 
dated Armagh, 30 January, 1673, the 
worthy Archbishop repeated his unqualified 
commendation of this meritorious F, His 
Grace of Dublin, Archbishop Peter Tal- 
bot, held him in no less esteem. We have 
this Rev. Superior's well written report of 
the Irish Mission of the Society, from the 
yeai 1669 to 15 July, 1675, and which 
has furnished several details for these bio- 
graphical Sketches. I find by a letter 
dated Poictiers, 20 May, 1C97, that he was 
thus recommended by its Rector, F. Kelly, 
to the General Gonzales, to lesume the 
Government of his Brethren in Ireland : 
'* Rev. Father Stephen Rice, who, about 
20 years since, was Superior of the Mission, 
appears to me eminently qualified to fill that 

• The head of this illustrious victim oflegal mur- 
der, is respectfully preserved in the Convent at 
Drogheda. 

How true is the remarlj, that " Calumny spread, 
no matter how, will frequently prove an overmatch 
for candour, truth, and inuocence, until time has 
applied his Touchstonv, and proved the temper of 
the Metal" ! 



264 



office again, unless his age and strength 
may incapacitate him for the labour." 
When the good old roan descended into the 
tomb, I have enquired in vain. 

Roche, Cornelius. All that I ferret 
out, is his existence in the early part of the 
17th century in Spain. 

RocHFORD, Charles. This Father was 
at Youghall, in 1577. 

RocHFORD, Robert, is mentioned with 
honour in the Epistle Dedicatory of Father 
Fitzsimon's Treatise on the mass, printed 
in 1611. In a letter of Father Edmund 
Tanner, dated Cork, 1 1 October, 1577,1 
read, Rev. Father Charles and Master 
Robert Rochford spread on every side the 
sweetest odour of the Institute of the So- 
ciety of Jesus. They keep a school in the 
town of Youghall, in the Diocess of Cork, 
Munster: their auditors and the towns- 
people are daily trained in the Christian 
doctrine, and the frequentation of the 
Sacranaenla and good Morals, as well as 
the miserable circumstances of the limes 
■will permit, hut not without molestation ; 
yet God gives them perseverance and great 
benefit to their Hearers." 

*Ryan, O' George, of Kerry. This 
Scholastic died at Novara, 14 November, 
1834, set. 23, Soc. 4. " Piam Icetus animam 
reponat Sedibus Christus.'' 

Kyan, Thomas, was Superior in Dublin, 
in the early part of Charles the Second's 
reign, and had the reputation of being an 
able Divine. It is painful to be unable to 
follow up the history of this Rev. Father. 

Ryan, William, was fellow Novice 
with Father Stephen Rice, and I think 
succeeded him in the government of the 
Irish Mission. Whilst Superior he was 
arrested towards the end of October, 1678, 
and kept in close custody, on suspicion of 
being concerned in Oates's Conspiracy: 
but his innocence appeared so manifest to 
the Viceroy and Privy Council, that he 
was most honourably acquitted and set at 
liberty. A letter written by him, and dated 
30 May, 1679, announces his sate arrival 
at Poictiers the day before. He adds that 
his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, and 
his brother, Richard Talbot, with the son 
of Viscount Mountgaret.still remained close 
prisoners. He mentions the Proclamation 
of the Viceroy, issued last OctoI.er, for the 
departure of all the Catholic Bishops and 
Regular Clergy from the realm of Ireland, 
as also the recent Reward offered of 10/. 
English for the apprehension of every 
Bishop and Jesuit, and of 6/. for every 
Abbot or other Regular so apprehended. 
On 6 July. 1679, Father Ignatius Brown 
^commended Father William Ryan for the 
Rectorship of the new College at Poictiers ; 
but further I cannot trace him. 

Sall, A father of this name 

had died at Cashell before the year 1649 ; 
his aged sister was living in his house 
with the two Fathers of the Society, when 
Fere Verdier visited that City. 



N.B. There was another F. {Andrew) 
Sail, perhaps Uncle to the Apostate Faiher 
of the same name. That he was Superior 
ofhisB. B. in 1663, is certain; but 1 can- 
not fix his death. 

* Sarazen, George. This Temporal 
Coadjutor is reported by Pere Verdier to be 
a good Religious man and a very ingenious 
person. He had been a Printer, and con- 
ducted the press at Kilkenny. 

Savage, Matthias, was t^orn in Dublin, 
2 Janu^iy, 1711, and entered the Society in 
the Province of Upper Germany, 12 Sep- 
tember, 1731 ; he returned as a Missionary 
to Ireland in 1741, and was admitted to 
the Profession of the Four Vows, 2 February, 
1752. His station was Waterford : but 
the date of his death I have not been able 
to recover. 

St. Leger, John (Salingerus, Uncle to 
FF. Robert St. Leger, D. D. and Vicar 
Apostolic of Calcutta, and his brother 
F. John St. Leger) born at Watertord, 
23 August, 1713; entered the Society in 
the Province of Thoulouse, 25 April, 1729, 
and came to the Irish Mission thirteen 
years later. With the assistance of his 
Irish friends in Spain, he built ai Waterford 
a Chapel for the Residence of the Society, 
and a good dwelling House, It was called 
St. Patrick's. For about 31 years he had 
the charge of the united Parishes there of 
St. Patrick and St. Olave, and certainly 
died there between 22 May, 1783, (the 
last date in his handwriting to be discovered 
in his Register) and 1 5 November that year, 
when his friend F. Paul Power was appoin- 
ted to succeed him. An old person, still 
livii g, inlormed Rev. John Shehan, th^t he 
died universally lamented, — that, without 
recollecting the precise date, he was present 
at the Funeral, and that his impression was, 
there was never so large an asscraltlage of 
people in Waterford upon any occasion 
before or since. At the Suppression of the 
Order, Dr. William Egan, then Bishop of 
the Diocese, declared it a Parish Church,, 
and appointed F. St. Leger its first Parish 
Priest and F. Paul Power iiis associate. 1 o 
this day, the memory of these holy Men ia 
in benediction. To the credit of the Bi- 
ihops of Waterford, let it be remembered 
that whilst an Ex-Jesuit was living, no 
other was appointed Parish Priest of St. 
Patrick's. 

St. Leger, Robert, D.D. born at 
Waterford S February, 1788, studied Hu- 
manities at Stonyhurst, joined the Novices 
at Hodder7 September, 1807: finished the 
higher studies in Sicily where he was or- 
dained Priest, After rendering valuable 
service to the Irish Mission, and whilst 
filling the office of Vice-Provincial Cfrora 
September 1830 to 1834,) he was appointed 
by the Holy See V. A. of Calcutta. 
Sailing in the Coromandel on Saturday 31 
May, 1834, he reached his destination 7 
October following. On 4 January 1835^ 



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he published an excellent Pastoral Letter, 
in which he granted to his flock a dispensa- 
tioa from the observance of many Feasts, 
and days of Fasts and abstinence, and 
vigorously enforced the duty of Submission 
to the Holy See, against the pretensions of 
Fre Manoel de Ave Maria, acting Bishop 
of St. Ttios. in Meliapore. Returning to 
Ireland three years later, Dr. John Lewis 
Taberd, Bishop of Isauropolis, and theexiled 
V. A. of Cochin Chma, was ' harged by 
the Holy See, in November, 1838, to pre- 
side over (he Vicariat of Bengal. 

St. Leger William. The 1st time 
that I meet with him is in a letter written 
by him from his nUive place, Kilkenny, 3 
January, 1646-7, wherein he speaks in the 
highest terras of the xuerits of Peter Francis 
Scararapi, the Oratorian and Envoy of the 
Holy See to the Irish Nation. Pere Ver- 
dier found him two years later superior of 
the College at Kilkenny. When that City 
was taken, he removed to Gal way. In 
1651, thesuccess of the Puritan faction com- 
pelled him to seek safety in flight. Re- 
tiring to Comp.. Stella, he ended his days in 
peace, 9 June, 1665, at. 66 we have from 
his pen the Life of Thomas Walsh, Arch- 
bishop of Cushell, 4to. Antwerp, 1655, 
who died at Coiopostella. 

Segrave, CimisTOPHEn,* was one of 
the Examiners of the MS. work of Father 
Stephen White,*' De Sanctis et AntiquitaU 
Hil'er?iioe," as I find in Father Robert Nu- 
gent's letter, dated Kilkenny, 10 January, 
1646-7. Two years later, he was the Pro- 
curator of the Novitiate at Kilkenny. There 
Pere Verdier saw this Professed Father, 
and states that he was about 45 years of age 
and " vir oplimi judicii. What became 
of him later, I have yet to learn. 

N. B. A gentleman of the name of Patrick 
Segrave, had been a special benefactor to 
the Irish Mission of the Order, as I find in a 
letter of F. Holiwood, dated 30 June, 1606. 

Shea, John. Of whom I find mention 
in father Holiwood's letter, 30 June, 1604. 
He had left him at Paris, studying Theology, 
and wishes much to have him for the Irisk 
Mission. 

*Shea, William, a most promising Scho- 
lastic, whodiedatClongowes-wood,4 April. 
1819, Soc. 9. 

Shea, Simon, of Leinsler, was born IS 
■ May, 1706, joined the Order in the Province 
of Seville, 2;i January, 1726: and com- 
menced his Missionary career in Ireland 
twelve years later. He was Professed 17 
March, 1742. Waterford was the theatre 
of his zeal, where he was admired as a 
good Preacher. He was living in 1755. 

Shelton, RicHAi'.D. In a letter of Fa- 

♦ The Segraves were formerly • powerful and 
wealthy family in Kngland, and were I'atrons of 
Chaconibe Priory, Co. Northampt n,on the borders 
of Co Oxon. Many of ihelr Obili, may be seen No. 
49, oftbe Arui dell MSS. in the Library of the Col- 
lege of Arms, London. 



ther Robert Nugent, dated Waterford 23 
February, 1643. he says " I daily expect 
Father Shelton from France." From Pere 
Verdier's Report 24 June, 1649, I collect 
that he had been stationed at Waterford, 
where he was in great repute as a Preacher ; 
that he had then quitted for Spain, to ac- 
company the Countess of Beerhaventhither; 
that he was about 40 years of age, of 
which he had spent 20 in the Society. 
He died in Dublin, as I find in Father 
Stephen Rice's Annual Letters, during the 
year 1671, in Mis sione et alibi de So' 
delate bene merifus.'^ 

Sherlock, Paul,* was born at Water- 
ford, 14 August, 1595. Well grounded in 
Classical Literature, he entered himself in 
the Irish College at Salamanca, in 1612, 
and on 20 September the same year, enlisted 
under the banner of St. Ignatius. As a 
Theologian he attained to the highest repu- 
tation ; for his ability in governing he was 
equally distinguished ; and for the long 
period of 20 years, during which he was 
Rector at Salamanca and Corapostella, he 
secured the esteem and attachment of his 
Brethren and Subjects. Application was 
made to the General of the Order on various 
occasions by F. Robert Nugent, the Su- 
perior of the Irish Mission, that his services 
might be confined to his native country ; 
but, under the circumstances, it was judged 
expedient to continue F. Sherlock in Spain, 
and at Salamanca he terniinated his useful 
career, 9 August, 1646. (rifted with talents 
of the first Order, and indefatigable in la- 
bor, he would have left numerous evidences 
of his genuis and erudition, if his constitu- 
tion had been stronger, or his life more ex- 
tended ; still we had from his pen, 

1. Antiloqtiia in Canticum Cantico- 
rum," 3 vols. fol. Lyons, 163?, 1637, 
1640, under the borrowed name of Leonar- 
dus Hibernicus, 

2. " Vindicice Scientice Medice^ 4to. 
Lyons, 1644. 

3. " A posthumous work, De HebroeO" 
rum Republica,'' folio, Lyons, 1651. 

^Sherlock, Robert. This most inno- 
cent and saintly lay-brother died at Clon- 
gowes, 4 January, 1822, Soc. 5. On the 
night of his happy departure, being asked, 
if there was anything he wanted ? he re- 
plied, looking up to heaven, " What can I 
want, but to be united to my Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ 1 " 

Shine, John. This zealous young Fa- 
ther ( for he was ordained Priest but at 
Pentecost 1822) was cut off in the flower 
of usefulness by cholera, in Dublin, on Sun- 
day 3 August, 1834, set. 43, Soc. 25. Ihj 
had remained in the Confessional, busily 
engaged until 10 o'clock of the preceding 
niglit ! His remains were deposited in the 
Cemetery of Glasnevin. Amongst his bre- 

• I believe the Family of Sherlock or Schyrlock, 
came from Chester, with the Bagots.- From Uevon- 
ihire emigrated the Cogana and Fitz-Stepheng. 



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*hren he passed for a very superior Classic 
Scholar ; and the New Day Schools of the 
Society in Dublin, justly regarded him as 
their soul and their most elBcient supporter. 
Having had the honor of numbering him 
amongst his pupils at Stonyhurst during 
the years 1806 and 1807, the Compiler of 
these Notices may be allowed to adopt the 
language of F. Edmund Campian, on hear- 
ing of the happy death of the Rev. Cuth- 
bert Mayne : ** Sit propitius Amico veteri 
et Prceceptori : horum enim nominum 
gloriola perfruar nunc ambitiosius quam 
antea." 

Shine, Thomas, reached Ireland from 
Spain with F. Everard before the end of 
1607. 

SrAFFORD, Bernard, ( his true name 
■was Cassidy,) he was born in Ireland, 
during the month of December, 1713. At 
the age of 22 he entered the Noviiiate at 
"W'atten ; and was admitted to the Profes- 
sion of the Four Vows in London in 1753. 
For some time he resided at Thame Park, 
wheiehedied II June, 1778. His services 
on the Mission well deserve remembrance 
and imitation. 

Stanihurst, William, of Irish parents, 
but was actually born at Brussels There 
he chiefly resided, and for 25 years was a 
zealous preacher in the English and Dutch 
languages. Full of modesty, charity, and 
tender piety, he was the deliglit of his 
Brethren, and the grace and ornament of 
Religion. He died 10 January, 1663, aet. 
6I.S0C. 43. 

He has left as monuments of his piety 
and industry. 

1. " Album Marianum." Folio, Louvain 
1641. 

2. " Regio Mortis.'' Svo. Antwerp, 1652. 

3. " Thesaurus Moralis Francisci La- 
bateB, novis ccmrnentationibus auctus.'^ 
Folio, Antwerp, 1652, 

4. " De injernorum Ergastulo." Ant- 
werp, 1655. 

5. *' Dei immortalis in tnoitalt corpore 
Paiientis Historia." Svo. Antwerp, 1660, 
pp. 408. 

6 " Quotidiana Chrisliani hominis 
Tessera." 4to. Antwerp, 1661. 

7. *' Veteris hominis per expensa Quat' 
uor Notissima Metamorphosis." 8vo. 
Antwerp, 166I. 

F. Archdeacon (who must well have 
known the pious author) mentions t wo other 
works ; but which perhaps were only ready 
for the press : 1 hesazcrus Concionum,^' 
and " de Passione Duminr." 

*Strich, JoHN,*quittedBourdeaux with 
Pere Verciier, 2 November, 1648: was 
obliged to wait at Rochelle for five weeks 
until a sea-worthy sl)ip could be procured : 
sailed thence 5 December, and after a rough 
and stormy voyage reached Galway, 28 

* Steit, Peter, is mentioned in the report of K. 
Verdier's visitation of the Brethren at Waterford ; 
isutthis Temporal Coadjutor was a Belgian by birth. 



December, that year, when I lose sight of 
him . 

Strong, Patrick. In a letter of Holi- 
wood, dated 30 June, 1604. he says, *' we 
have sent lately to Bourdeaux, Mr. Patrick 
Strong, a prudent man, to reside there, to 
be the conveyer to and fio of our corrts- 
pjndence." In a letter of 30 June, 1606, 
he inf rms F. George Duras that Mr, 
Strong had returned from Bourdeaux, and 
that but three days ago he was nearly cap- 
tured in the streets of Dublin, whilst unad- 
visedly walking in the day time. 

Sullivan, 0'Thad.eus. Pere Verdier, 
so olten mentioned, found this Professed 
Father at Waterford, and states that he 
was about 55 years ot age ; that he was 
eminent for virtue, learning and nobility ; 
that he possessed talents for business and 
Pulpit Oratory : that he was a descendant 
of the ancient Irish ; that he had few 
equals ; and that he ought to be promoted 
to the rank of .Superior of his brethren, or 
Consultor cfthe Mission. 

Talbot, * In a letter of F. 

Heniy Fitzsimon, written from Ireland, 7 
September, 1599, he petitions for a rein- 
forcement of Missionaries, and particularises 
F. Talbot in the first place, " Ex nostra- 
tihus in has j)artes amandandi P. Tal- 
botus," Sfc. Further details I look for in 
vain. 

Talbot, John James. This Father is 
mentioned in Pere Verdier's Report of 24 
June, 1649, as being 30 years old, of a ro- 
bust constitution, but living with his mother 
" in adibus nobilium " without office. 

Talbot, Nicholas. All that I can 
recover of his history is from a letter of F. 
Nicholas Hart, addressed 15 June, 1659, to 
the General Goswin Nickel. He states that 
F. Nicholas Talbot has not as yet quitted the 
shores of Ireland ; that by reason of his de- 
clining strength (for he is past 60.) heap- 
pears unequal to the fatigue of travelling, and 
to the labours of a College life abroad ; that 
his bail, who are answerable to the Govern- 
ment for his departure, are willing that he 
should remain quietely aiiiong his friends, 
and attend to the improvement ot his health. 
F. Hart requests directions how to proceed 
in this case. N.B. There was another F. 
Talbot, whom I meet with in the town of 
Galway, early in 1649 : he is described as 
being about 40 years old, Professed of th© 
Four Vows , and then teaching Grammar. 

Talbot, Peter, son of Sir William 
Talbot, and brother of the Richard Talbot, 
who was created Duke of 1 yrconnell by 
King James the Second, and Viceroy of 
Ireland. Peter was born in the County of 
Dublin, in 1620. At the age of 15 he en- 
rolled himself in Portugal, amongst ihg 

* We may be allowed to remark, that the Talbot 
Family has furnished numerous members for the 
Church of Ireland In 1762, no less than four 
Priests of the name of Richard Talbot were living 
in the city of Dublin, two Seculars and ivio Augus- 
tinians. See p. 662, Hibernia Dominicana. 



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children of Sf. Ignatius. After his pro- 
motion to the Priesihood, he was employed 
to teach Moral Theology at Antwerp. He 
had reached London in the spring of 1651, 
and was preparing to pass over to Ireland 
on some secret service and commission of 
Jean IV. King of Portugal, and I find him 
described in a letter of 29 April, that year, 
as sapientia, pietate et zelo tanto oneri 
parent. His letter from Cologne, written 
17 November, 1654, shews how fully he 
possessed the confidence of his legitimate 
Sovereign Charles the Second, then a resi- 
dent in that City. That his Majesty was 
then disposed to favour his Catholic sub- 
jects, whom he had found to be most faithful 
to his person and most zealously attached 
to Monarchial Government, is certain — 
nay, that he was favourably disposed to- 
wards their religion is not improbable ; but 
I see no cause for crediting the assertion of 
the learned author* of the Hibernia Do" 
minicana, p. 711, that the King was re- 
conciled to the Catholic Church by F. Peter 
Talbot, at Cologne, in the year 1656. 
There is too much reason to believe, that 
the King's was but a death bed conversion, t 

♦ This Luminary of the O, S. D. Dr. Thomas 
Burke was born in Dublin, in 1709, and succeeded 
Dr. James Dunne in tha See of Ossory, in 1759. 
He wa3 consecrated at Drogheda by the Primate 
Anthony Blalie, on Low Sunday, 22 April, that year, 
and died at his house in Maudlin Street. Kilkenny, 
on Wednesday, 25 September. 17/6. This compi- 
lation 4to. pp. 797, was actually printed at Kilkenny 
from the press of James Stokes (although the title 
page sets out that it issued from the Metternick 
Print-office at Cologne) in 1762. Ten years later, a 
Supplement was printed at Kilkenny, I think by 
Edmund Finn, which increases the whole work to 
949 pages. The Historical Part is valuable indeed ; 
but the political tendency of the work excited great 
alarm in the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland. 
Seven of the Prelates met at Thurles, and signed a 
declaration 28 July. 1773, expressive of their dis- 
approval of the Publication, as tending to weaken 
and subvert the fidelity and allegiance due to their 
gracious Sovereign George IIL — and to disturb the 
Public peace and tranquillity, and to give a handle 
to their opponents to impute principles that they 
utterly reject, and which are unfounded in the 
Doctrines of the Catholic Church. See the Antho* 
logia Hibernica for February, 1/93, p. 96. 

t The honour of the reconciliation is due to the 
Benedictines. That holy Missionary, Benedict 
Gibbon, (born at Westclitfe, in Kent ; professed at 
Lambspring. 21 March, 1672 ; deceased 1 January 
1723.) whilst dining with F. Mansuet, O. S. F. 
Confessor to James, Duke of York, desired him to 
go to his Royal Highness and advise him to propose 
'to the King, then near his end, whether he did not 
desire to die in the Communion of the Catholic 
Church. The Duke did so; and the consequence 
was. that F. John Huddleston concluded this 
reconciliation. So far the Lambspring MS. But 
there is good reason to doubt part of this statemant. 
Of the conversation at dinner there may be no 
doubt ; but F. Mansuet could noi have any com- 
munication with the Duke. He may have suggested 
it to others ; but had no access to the King's cham- 
ber, which the Duke never left. Barillon says, that 
4c suggested it to the Duke, at the request'of the 
Duchess of Portsmouth, because she could not get 
to speak to him. The Duchess of York, afterwards 
Queen, told the Nuns at Chaillot, in the piesence of 
James, who assented, that she spoke to him about 
it, at the request of the Queen, but was obliged to 

3 T. 



About the period of the Restoration of 
his Sovereign, whose interests he had long 
and most diligently served and promoted, 
F. Talbot ol)tained " juslis de causis a 
dispensation from his vows ; but his affec- 
tion for the Society of Jesus co-ntinued un- 
abated. On the death of Dr. Thomas 
Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin, Pope Cle- 
ment IX. named Dr. Talbot, on 2 May, 
1669, to fill that vacant see. His zeal for 
the advancement of Religion, and for his 
Country's welfare ( for he was a true pa- 
triot, ) procured hira many enemies in 
those days of intolerance and bigotry. With 
his pen he was indefatigable, as the list of 
his works, which he himself supplied for 
insertion in Southwell's Bibliotheca Scrip- 
torum Societalis Jesu (p. 702) abundant- 
ly proves. In consequence of K. Charles 
Ilcd's Proclamation lor the banishment of 
all Bishops and Religious from Ireland, his 
Grace repaired to the Continent ; and I find 
by his original letter, dated 29 December, 
1673, from Paris, that his Sovereign, as 
well as James Duke of York, had recom- 
mended him to the most Christian King, 
and even in letters written with their own 
hands, to provide him with a Benefice be- 
coming his station, and that he had then 
actually delivered them. How long he 
remained abroad I cannot determine ; but 
I read in a Journal, formerly kept at Wat- 
ten, near St. Omer, the following memo- 
randum : "A D. 1676, Feb. 24. My Lord 
Primate of Ireland, Lord Talbot came here 
from St. Omer, with F. Retor and F. Ire« 
land." Soon after his return to Ireland, 
whilst labouring under great bodily infirmi- 
ty, he was seized in his brother's house at 
Carr Town, County Kildarde, removed 
in a chair, and committed a close prisoner, 
as an accomplice in Oates' Plot ] 1 ! Harris 
(p. 197, Book I. Writers of Ireland ) with 
all his prejudices, admits that "nothing 
appeared against him from his exancina- 
tions, nor from those of others.'^ Still the 
wicked policy of the Sovereign allowed this 
faithful subject* and old friend to linger for 
two years in confinement within the walls 
of Newgate, Dublin, where he died in 
1680. See the honorable testimony, p. 
131, of ihe Hlbernia Dominicana, to this 
most injured character. Dr. Patrick Rus- 
sell was elected his successor in the Arch- 
bishoprick2 August, 1683. Whilst a Fa- 
ther of the Society of Jesus, he published — 

1. Treatise of the nature of Catho- 

* To the Editor of the Catholic Miscellany for 
1826, the public is indebted for reprinting the ad- 
mirable Pastoral Letter of this loyal Archbishop of 
Dublin, dated Paris, May 2, 1674, See pp, 66.72 



wait an hour in the King's room before she could 
get an opportunity. She seemed to deem it unfor- 
tunate, that a better mnn than F. Huddleston could 
not be found at the moment ; but James said that 
he performed the duty very well." This account 
was written by the Nuns, to be preserved by them, 
the tame day. 



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lie Faith and HerisiCf with Reflection up- 
on the Nullitie of the English Protestant 
Church and Clergy.'' 8vo. Rouen, 1657, 
pp. 89, Under the name of Erastus Senior; 
he does not rely on the Nag's Head Con- 
secration Story. 

2. " The Politifian's Catechisme for 
his Instruction in Divine Faith and Mo- 
rale Honesty."' 8vo. Antwerp, 1658, pp. 
193. 

Dodd, p. 281, vol. iii. Church History, 
nnight have improved his article, had he 
paid raore attention to the spirit of F. 
Southwell's Narrative, wliich lay open be- 
fore him. 

Tanner, Edmund. A brief letter of this 
Father, addressed from Cork, li October, 
1577, is extant. He states that he had 
once been arrested ; but by the industry of 
his friends, had effected his escape, and that 
the enemies of Catholic Faith were con- 
stantly intent on bis destruction ; that God 
blessed his labours in the vineyard, and 
that many would be reconciled to the 
Church, if the violence of Persecution 
should subside. I suspect this F. is the per- 
son mentioned by Harris, p. 97, Book I. 
Writers of Ireland, who wrote Lectiones 
in Summam D. ThomcB.'* 

Thaly, Hugh. This polite scholar and 
excellent instructor of youth, died in the 
Irish College of Poictiers, 18 September, 
1711, set. 73. He had labored in the Irish 
Mission for 24 years, and for some time 
had been employed in the vineyard of Scot- 
land. For the last eight years of his life, 
God was pleased to visit him with total 
blindness ; but, like another Tobias, he ex- 
hibited perfect patience and resignation. 

ToBiN, James, was an edifying Novice at 
Kilkenny in 1649. On the following year 
he was drafted with his brethren through 
the houses of the Society on the continent, 
■where he vanishes from ray pursuit. 

Tyrer, Francis. At the age of 15 he 
joined the Society. After filling the office 
of Superior at Waterford, he was stationed 
at Cork, where Pere Verdier met him early 
in 1649. He reports him to be an eminent 
Preacher, very prudent and learned, and 
zealous for religious discipline. He was 
living in Ireland, 15 June, 1659 ; but after 
that date I can trace him no longer. 

UsHEB, John, This Father was living 
in the early part of 1649, at Kilkenny : he 
was then 35 years old, of which he had 
spent 18 years in the Society. He was 
actually teaching Rhetorifk. He was still 
living in the winter of 166:i. 

Usher, Stephen. With regret I have 
to admit that I have barely recovered his 
oarae. 

Wadding, Luke, (brother to F. Peter 
Wndding) was a native of Waterford, and 
of a Family fruitful in great men. F. Luke 
was living at Salamanca, and his brother 
Peter in Bohemia, in the year 1642. On 
•1 April, that year, the Superior of the 



Irish Mission, F. Robert Nugent, applied 
to the General Vitelleschi for the benefit of 
their services at home. In a letter of 28 
February, 1943, he repeated his anxious 
wish for their return, ^' in Missione hac 
omnino necessarii sunt ; " but it is cer- 
tain that the petition could not be granted. 

Wadding. Peter, S. T. D. born in 
Waterford, A. D. 1580; at the age of 21 
entered the Novitiate at Tournay. Several 
Universities were proud of numbering him 
amongst their Professors ; but his prodi- 
gious learning was eclipsed by the splen- 
dour of his virtues. He died at Giatz. 13 
September, 1644, Under a borrowed name 
he published " Carmina Varia,'' " Trac- 
tatus aliquot contra Hereticos.*' Under 
his own name he wrote a Latin Treatise 
to refute the Pamphlet entitled " Flagellum 
Jesuiticum." 4to. Nigrse, 1634. " Tracta^ 
tus de Incarnatione." 4to. Antwerp, 1636, 
pp. 656. Also a Latin Oration at the in- 
auguration of Ferdinand III. at Prague, in 
1636. His Treatise, " De Contractibust" 
4to. was printed at Grata, the year after 
his death. 

Wale, Thomas. He was cousin of the 
FF. Qugmerford, and I find left Spain for 
Rome, about Michaelmas, 1607. 

Wale, Walter. This venerable Irish 
Father for nearly half a century cultivated 
the vineyard in Ireland. His useful ser- 
vices to society at large, extorted the praise 
of his persecutors ; even the Judges at 
circuit have honestly confessed that he and 
his uncle, F. Barnaby Kearney, were more 
instrumental in preventing and putting down 
robbery, and in maintaining the public 
tranquillity, than all the Courts of Law. 
This Apostolic Father and true Patriot, 
ever severe to himself, but all patience, 
condescension, and meekness towards others, 
died at Cashell, prope octogenariuSj 6 
April, 1646. 

Walle, James, returned to Ireland from 
Spain with a broken constitution, and after 
a few years service, died in November, 
1640. F.Robert Nugent, in a letter of 22 
November, that year, eulogizes this Father 
for his integrity, learning, and zeal. 

Walsh, James, was living at Waterford 
in 1649. Pere Verdier describes hira as 
being 33 years of age, of good abilities, of 
perfect candour, and a lover of Religious 
Discipline. On 3 June, 1650, this Apos^« 
tolic Father fell a victim of charity in at- 
tending persons infected with the plague, 
when pestilence ravaged that City. 

Another Father of this name was living 
at Corapostella, in 1686. See also Note p. 
104, " Life of St. Patrick, Dublin 1747." 

Walsh, Richard. In a letter of F. 
James Queraerford, dated Madrid, 28 Sep- 
tember, 1607, I read " F. Richard Wal&h 
hath ended his studies, and is gon to his 
third Probation : it is likely he shall begin 
a course of Philosophie in the Serainarie 
of Salamanca, if the Spaniards prevail not, 



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that procured to have him for themselves. 
The Knglishe of Valladolid hath sought hira , 
and many others cast an eye upon hira. I 
hope such as need him most, and unto whom 
he may doe the greater good, shall have 
him. Fie was liken to go with F. Padilla 
to Kome, and he was appointed for it ; but 
the Spaniards fearing our F, Generall, if 
he did once see him, could not suffer hira 
to come back to Spaine, stayed him." I 
meet with this Father at Waterford in 
April 1642, in a declining and hopeless 
slate of health. 

Ward, John, born in the County of 
Dublin, in 1705 ; at the age of 19, 18 Octo- 
ber, 1724, entered the Society, in the Pro- 
vince of Thoulouse ; was admitted to the 
solemn Profession of his Order 21 February, 
1742. I find by the catalogue of 1755, that 
he had been on the Mission then for the last 
seventeen years, and was Superior of his 
Brethren in Dublin. Obiit 12 October, 
1775. 

Ward, Mauhicf. When Fere Verdier 
visited Gal way early in 1649, he found this 
young Jesuit living as Chaplain in the house 
of Sir Zepherin Brown, he describes hira as 
^ * vir ins ig niter homes et sincerus, egre- 
gius et facilis Poeta." He died inGalway 
2 November, 1663, aetatis 47. Soc. 17. 

Wakd, Thomas. 

Weldon, Thomas, born at Drogheda, 
according to one account, 18 March, but, 
according to another, 20 December, 1714. 
He was admitted into the Society at Thou* 
louse, 8 March, 1731, or rather 12 July, 
1732 ; made the Profession of the Four 
Vows, 15 August, 1749 ; taught Humani- 
ties in France for seven years, and Philoso- 
pliy for four years. He came to the Irish 
Mission in 1750 but soon after passed over 
to England, and for many years resided in 
Lancashire. He died at Brin, in that 
County, 15 February, 1776. 

White, Francis, of one of the best fa- 
milies in Waterford, for many years resided 
In Portugal, where he was Master of 
Novices. F. William St Leger, in a letter 
dated 16 January, 1663, says of him, *' It 
is time that he should serve the Society and 
the Church of God in his own country. 
This is expedient and almost necessary ; 
he his eminently qualified by virtue, and 
abilities, and method; he has filled several 
offices in the Order. Whilst in England 
with the Portuguese Ambassador, he gave 
the highest satisfaction by his zeal and 
charity ; he is known and welcome to the 
English and Irish Gentry ; is well acquain- 
ted with languages, and conversant with 
the world ; has considerable influence with 
the Queen and her Household," &c. A 
letter of F. Francis White, dated Kilkenny, 
19 December, 1668, shews that he was then 
Superior of tiie Irish Mission. He died at 
Waterford, 17 November, 1697, set. 87. 
He had a brother Patrick, a worthy Priest 



who nobly did his duty during the Plague 
at Waterford* in 1650. 

White, James, was in the Provinco of 
Castile, in the early part of 1686, as I find 
in F. Hugh Thaiy's letter of 20 February 
that year. His services were then urgently 
demanded for the Irish Mission. 

White, John. This Father is mentioned 
by F, Robert Nugent in his letter dated 
" ex Hibernia, I Octobris, 1640." 

White, Peter. All that I can glean of 
hira is from a letter of F. John Young, 
written from the Irish College at Rome, 26 
October, 1631, in which he states that F. 
Peter White was then the Rector of the 
Irish College at Seville. 

VVhite, Stephen. This Irish Father 
deserves a fuller eulogiura than I am able to 
supply. He was the author of some histo- 
rical pieces relating to Ireland, in confutation 
of the assertions of Giraldus Cambrensis. 
The Rev John Lynch, who had the custody 
of this valuable MS, mentions it in Chapter 
I. and XlV.ofhis '* C ambrensis Eversus," 
printed in 1662, and expresses his deep re- 
gret that a considerable part of it was lost 
during the Civil Wars. Archbishop Usher, 
an excellent judge of these matters, in p. 
400 of his Primordia, gives F. White the 
character of being " a man of exquisite 
knowledge in the Antiquities, not only of 
Ireland, but also of other nations." In a 
letter of F. Robert Nugent, Superior of his 
brethren in Ireland, and addressed frona 
Kilkenny, 10 January, 1646, to F.Charles 
Sangri, I read what follows. 

I have given the commission to four of 
our Fathers diligently to examine the works 
of F. Stephen White, and to forward their 
judgment to your paternity, conformably to 
the directions you have recently sent us. 
His works are various, and as our Fathers 
live in places very distant from each other, 
and notwithstanding the most Reverend Bi- 
shops, (who are ready to defray the expen- 
ses of the printing,) as also the supreme 
Council very earnestly insist, that a certain 
work of his, Z>6 Sanctis et Antiquilate 
Iberniee, be instantly sent to the Press, I 
find it difficult and next to impossible to 
resist their reasonable demand, since the 
Manuscript itself has been perused by seve- 
ral amongst them, and has been pronounced 
not only worthy of been printed, but highly 
necessary for the credit and advantage of 
this Kingdom. Therefore I have written 
again to the Examiners, that each would pri- 
vately report their opinion on this work as 
soon as possible to your Paternity ; though 
all in their letters to me greatly extol it, 
and declare it most worthy to issue from 
the Press, l^ut 1 am unwilling to allow 
any work to be printed that can give just 
cause of offences to any person: and yet 
here is less cause of apprehension in this 

• Seo p. 571 of that invaluable work, " HMmia, 
Dominicana." 



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case, as this book merely treats on the 
Saints anj Antiquity of the Kingdom of 
Ireland." 

White, Thomas. The only occasion 
that I find this Father mentioned is in a 
letter of 22 August, 1607. He was then in 
Spain, with F. Janies Archer. I cross him 
again six weeks later. F. Fitzsimon, in the 
Preface to his Treatise on the Mass, printed 
in 1611, mentions him. 

WouLFE, David, had been Chaplain to 
James Maurice Desmond de Gerald inis, as 
1 find from that nobleman's letter, dated 
from St. Malo, 31 January, 1576. The 
Earl expresses himself most grateful to the 
Society for having admitted him to a par- 
ticipation of its prayers and good works 
*' ex rogatu et commendatione R. Patris 
Gulielmi Good." The Father had returned 
to Ireland. 

Wyse, Maurice. This Father was at 
Rome in I604i, as I find in a letter of F. 
Holiwood, dated Ex Comitatu Dubliniensi 
6 May, that year, who proposed that he 
should be sent over to the Irish Mission. 
F. Wyse reached liOndon 22 June, the same 
year, Waterford and its vicinity became the 
field of his apostolic labours. After 22 
August, 1607, I lose sight sf him; 

Young, John. For thirty years this 
apostolic man devoted himself to the Irish 
Mission. The Counties of Cork, Water- 
ford, and Galway, where the principal thea- 
tres of his labours. We learn from p. 871 
of Tanner's Lives of the Confessors of the 
Society of Jesus, that this good Father fre- 
quently contrived, during the rage of perse- 
cution, to penetrate into the houses of the 
Catholics, in the disguise of a Miller. His 
spirit of discretion and experience, his emi- 
nence as a Preacher, his profound learning, 
his solid interior virtue, recommended 
him as the fittest person amongst his 
Brethren to lay ihe foundation of the 
Novitiate at Kilkenny ; and no wonder, 
that under so great a master of Spiri- 
tual life, such Ornaments to their Coun- 
try and Luminaries of Religion as F F. 
Stephen Rice, William Ryan, &c. &c. 
should have come forth. Pere Verdier re- 
ported him in 1649, to the General of the 
Order, as " Vir omnium Religiosarum 
virtulum genere insignis, et concionator 
egregius," Obliged by the successful ad- 
vance of the Parliamentary forces to remove 
his interesting Establishment from Kilken- 
ny, he conducted it to the Town of Gal- 
way ; but thence also he was compelled to 
emigrate with them to the Continent, where 
he saw himself under the necessity of draft- 
ing these dear children in various houses of 
the Society. Retiring to Rome, he pre- 
sided over the Irish College there for eight 
years, and was rewarded with a happy 
death in that City, 13 July, 1664, at. 75, 
as I find it written under his beautifully 
engraved Portrait. 



A few original letters of this meritorious 
and saintly Father are still extant: some 
Extracts may afford pleasure to the reader. 

I. Dated from Kilkenny, 30 January, 
1647, O. S. " Our long expected Superior, 
P. Malone. by the blessing of God, is at 
last arrived. His coming was indeed wel- 
comed by all ; but, above all, by me, who 
who have been sustaining the double bur- 
then of the Novitiate and the Mission. 
Now, blessed be God, I am relieved of the 
care of superintending the Mission. With 
regard to the Novitiate, we have eleven 
Novices, of whom four are Priests, six are 
Scholastics, and one a Temporal Coadjutor, 
Domestic discipline and regular observance 
proceed in due course, as I flatter myself. 
I do trust in the Lord, that they will not 
degenerate from the primitive spirit of our 
Fathers. They are trained in the simplicity 
of obedience, in the despising of themselves 
and the World, in subduing their passions, 
renouncing self-will, in the practice of 
poverty, in the candid and unreserved mani- 
festation of conscience, in inward conver- 
sation and familiarity with God : and of 
these things, praise be to God, they are 
very capable and most eager. Noihing is 
omitted which the Rules prescribe for their 
formation in the spirit of the Society of 
Jesus." 

The second is dated from Kilkenny, 30 
June, 1648. The Letters of your Pev. 
Paternity, bearing date 24 August, 1647, 
did not reach me until the 23rd of last 
month. Never since the memory of man 
have the affairs of this kingdom been in a 
more turbulent slate than at present, by 
reason of the discord now prevailing be- 
tween the Supreme Council and the Nun- 
cio." He then states that the Supreme 
Council, in consequence of severe reverse 
of fortune during the Campaign, and the 
great want of ways and rreans, had 
concluded a Treaty for six months 
with Inchinquin, the General of the Ene- 
my's forces: that some of the Conditions 
were judged unfavourable to Ecclesiastical 
rights by the Nuncio, who signified his 
utter disapprobation, and threatened an 
interdict, unless the Truce was recalled 
within the space of nine days that the 
Supreme Council appealed to the Holy See ; 
but notwithstanding such appeal, the Nun- 
cio had proceeded to carry his threat into' 
execution ; and that confusion and the 
worst species of civil hostilities were en- 
gendered between the parties. In this and 
other letters, dated from Kilkenny, 31 De- 
cember, 1648, 8 February, 1649, 22 June, 
1649, he enters into many details relating 
to the history of this sad and eventful period, 
and gives proof of his own quiet and meek 
spirit, of his tender regard for charity and 
the interests of Religion. 

From Galway the Rev. Father addressed 
two letters to the Gen. Piccolimini. The 
first is dated 20 April, 1660 : he remark* 



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on the bright prospect there was for the 
Irish Mission of the Society in Ireland but 
seven years ago ; what a wide field was 
opened for extending the glory of God, and 
procuring the salvation of souls ; that beve- 
ral cities had petitioned for Colleges of the 
Order, and that competent foundations* 
had been offered and some accepted ; that 
the small number of labourers for such an 
abunaant harvest of souls (for they hardly 
amounted to sixty for the whole of Ireland, 
nam vix sexaginta in toto regno fuimus) 
induced them to apply for powers to admit 
Novices at home, who being instructed in 
virtue and afterwards in learning, might 
succeed us, most of whom are advanced in 
years, in the work of the Ministry. The 
necessary permission was obtained ; it was 
coufirraed and increased afterwards, and 
the Novitiate had prosperously maintained 
its course during the last four years " et 
Novitiatus hoc quadriennio prospere 
suum cursum tenuit." But as nothing is 
stable in human affairs, during the last year 
the Establishment was disturbed by 
the din of arms and by the assault 
of the Parliamentary forces, insomuch that 
a transmigration to Galway had become 
necessary. Every day the Political Ho- 
rizon grew darker, and the panic and 
despair of the confederated Chiefs portended 
the worst consequences to the Country. He 
adds, " for the more advanced of our Bre- 
thren we are not so concerned ; for they 
are prepared by age and the long exercise 
of virtues to meet the brunt and storm of 
persecution : but for the Juniors, as for so 
many unfledged young from the hovering 
Kite,we are all solicitude." Alter earnestly 
consulting Almighty God, and deliberating 
with the Fathers of Galway end its neigh- 
bourhood, he states, that it was unanimously 
resolved to send the young men abroad as 
soon as possible, trusting in God and in 
the accusiomed charity of the Society, that 
provision would be made for them. He 
finishes by saying, "My bowels are moved 
with the danger impending on those whom 
I have begotten in Christ; for, as their 
Master of Novices, I have brought them 
forth with the anxiety of a mother. I now 
commend and commit them to your Rev. 
Paternity, that they may be distributed and 
accepted through the Provinces ; hear, I 
implore you, my good Father, this first pe- 
tition of their very poor Mother; I do not 

♦ Amongst these benefactors (we have already 
noticed the greatest, Klizabeth Nugent, Countess of 
Kildare, who dl( d 20 October, 1645) we must 
particularize Dr. T/iomas Dease, Bishop of Meath ; 
Mr. Edmund Kirwan, anil his relation, Francis 
Kirwan, Bishop of Killala (his Lordship had ob- 
tained to be admitted into the Society " pro hora 
mor/2t," and was buried in the Jesuits' Church at 
Rennes) ; and Thomas Walsh, Archbishop of 
Cashell. who died in exile at Compostella. The 
Supreme Council had also engaged in 1645, to erect 
a new University, to be under the charge of the 
Jesuits, as also to found a College under the name 
of Jesus, 

3u. 



say, my Petition, but of this declining 
Mission ; because Satan waxes fierce and 
cruel, intent on extinguishing the spark 
which is left, and on leaving us no name 
or remainder upon the earth, (2 Kings, 
xiv. 70.) 

The second letter is dated 14 August, 
1650. After briefly adverting to the suc- 
cesses of the Puritan Faction, and the 
atrocities and sacrileges which marked 
their triumphant progress, he says, that he 
will take the first safe opportunity of ship- 
ping off his dear Novices to the Continent, 
and conjures the General to exercise his 
tender charity towards these interesting 
Exiles. 

ADDENDA 

CoLUNsoN, George, of Scotland, had 
entered the Society, 16 October, 1696, in 
the Province of Thoulouse. 



Thefollorving Members have died whilst 
we were at Press : 

*BoND, John, born at St. Margan's, 
Cornwall. This promising Scholastic died 
at Calcutta, 23 March, 1844, set. 27. 

Ille longum 
Vixitf eeternum sibi qui merendo 
Vindicat cevum. 

Brownbill, Thomas : born at Gillraoss, 
County of Lancashire, on Christinas Day, 
1788 : after studying Humanities at Stony- 
hurst, enrolled himself amongst the children 
of St. Ignatius in 1806: was ordained 
Priest 4 September, 18l3j and during a 
short period devoted himself to the pastoral 
duties of the Missionary of Clitheroe, until 
his removal to Stockheld Park, where he 
diffused the sweet odour of Jesus Christ, 
during a period of ten years. In Septem- 
ber, 182r, this humble, interior and enlight- 
ened Father was appointed Master of No- 
vices at Hodder, where he verified to all those 
objects of his spiritual solicitude, the direc- 
tion of his heavenly Master, " Qui major 
est in vobis,Jiat sicut minor, et qui prce- 
cessor est in vobis, sicut ministrator.^ 
Luke xxii. This responsible office he 
filled, to the general satisfaction, until 
1842, when he was nominated to the Rec- 
torship of the Seminary. Here this beloved 
and respected Superior, who had before ex- 
perienced much suffering from diseased 
Liver and Lungs, was seized with spasmo- 
dic affection, on the night of £0 October, 
1844, but went the next day ( Thursday ) 
to IJodder to give meditations to the exer- 
citants. On the Friday, 1 November, the 
Feast of All Saints, he celebrated Holy 
Mass. As he appeared to begetting worse, 
the best Medical Advice was called in, and 
a removal from the Seminary to the quiet 
and convenient Infirmary of the College was 
judged expedient. But here the humility of 
the Father was exhibited ; on entering this 



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lafirmary he begged that the worst of every 
thing might be given to him. No one 
could approach him without being edified 
with his gentle patience and calm resigna- 
tion. The whole community joined in 
earnest supplications to Heaven for the pro- 
longation of his valuable life ; but his com- 
plaint had now baffled all the power and 
skill of medicine ; and his hour of recora- 
pence was come. We give the closing 
scene of this dying saint from the pen of an 
eye witness. F. Brownbill departed this 
life on Monday night, ( 18 Nov. ) at half 
past 10, in the sweet odour of sanctity, full 
of Faith, Hope, and Charity, marking his 
forehead, mouth and breast, in his last mo- 
naents, with the sign of the Cross, repeating 
the ever blessed Names of Jesus, Mary, and 
Joseph, with the Anima Christi, impart- 
ing his last blessing to all present, viz,, 
Fathers liarrow, Seagrave, Carroll, and 
Mann ; and Brothers Idle, Kerwick, Howe, 
and Scott." "Ohl may the Writer of 
this, experience an end like his." Eternal 
rest be to this precious Soul ! Araen. 

Clifford, Walter, the sixth born son 
of Charles, the six*h Lord Clifford, (by his 
Lady Elenora Marj , the younger daughter 
of Henry, eighth Lord Arundell, of War- 
dour,) saw the light of day at Ugbrooke, 
26 April, 1804). Aiiev completing his 
Academic Education at Stonyhurst, he was 
sent to Rome, where he was admitted a 
Novice of the Society of Jesus, on 1 No- 
vember, 1823. Returning to Stonyhurst, 
this amiable Religious defended the whole 
course of Theology, on 4 July, 1832, with 
great satisfaction to his Superiors, and no 
less credit to himself. On 19 September 
following, he was ordained Subdeacon in 
the College Church by Bishop Penswick ; 
Deacon on the following day ; and Priest 
on Saturday the 22nd of the same month 
and year. He was then appointed Profes- 
sor of Logic and Metaphysics ; but on 9 
i^eptember, 1835, his services as a Mission- 
ary were called for at Preston ; and before 
the expiration cf three years, viz. 20 July, 
1838, he was transferred to Wardour, as 
assistant to the Rev. James Laurenson. As 
his heart beat for the salvation of souls in 
foreign Missions, he was at length permitted 
by his Superiors to follow his inclinations ; 
and he sailed for Madura, in the Diocese of 
Pondicherry, on 20 February, 1841, In 
the letter of the Rev. F. Louis St. Cyr, 
S. J. dated Madura, 16 February, 1842, 
and published in the Annals of the Society 
for the Propagation of Faith, we read that 
**the Europeans and all that partake of 
their origin in Trichinopoly, the Capital of 
this Country, are confided to the zeal of F. 
Clifford, who does not spare himself ; but, 
thanks be to God, guides his vessel to the 

feneral satisfaction " We have before us 
Clifford's interesting letter on his Mis- 
sion, dated 15 August, 1843, and published 
in the Annals of May, 1844, No. xxx. Lit- 



tle did he then forsee that he was to be " ex- 
tinguished in the bloom of life " — that in 
the river Cavery, which he describes below 
the fortress of Trichinopoly, he should be 
swept away by the current while bathing, 
on 22 May, 1844, to the profound regret of 
his honored family and religious friends, 
and numerous acquaintance. But he prac- 
tised what he taught, being ever ready to 
answer the summons of his Heavenly Father. 

Knight, James, eldest son of James 
Knight, of Cannington, Esq. by his wife 
Mary Diana Rowe, was born at Canning- 
ton, 20 July, 1780 : at the age of 36 left the 
practice of the Legal Profession to embrace 
the state of Religion. He was in due time 
promoted to Holy Orders, and said his first 
Mass at Finburg, on Whitsunday, 6 June, 
1824. Shortly after he was named to the 
Courtfield Mission ; but at the end of six 
years, viz., 26 August, 1830, was removed 
to Soberton, Hants. When that Mission 
was transferred to Tunbridge Wells, (where 
the new Chapel was opened, 17 July, 
1738,) F. Knight was called to Stonyhurst, 
and eventually was placed at Chipping. 
This general favourite and most exemplary 
Priest, after a short ailment was carried off 
suddenly by apoplexy, on Tuesday morning, 
12 November, 1844. He had celebrated 
Mass on the preceding Sunday. 

Reeve, John Lewis, was a native of 
Birmingham, and nephew to the Rev. FF. 
Joseph, Richard, and Thomas Reeve, S J, 
At an early age he was sent to the English 
Academy at Liege, and shared in all the 
adventures of the Emigration of its mem- 
bers, and was amongst the first arrivals at 
Stonyhurst, in August, 1794. In the Ju- 
niorate or Probationary State of Its young 
Ecclesiastics, he shone a model of docility 
and piety. He had filled the office of Pre- 
fect for some time, when he received direc- 
tions from his Superiors to prepare for Holy 
Orders. On 12 June, 1862, he was promo- 
ted to Priesthood at Maynooth College, by 
Archbishop Troy, and shortly after was 
appointed to the cliarge of the Chipping 
Mission. There he erected the New Chapel, 
which was opened for public worship on 24 
June, 1828. On 25 September, the same 
year, he was transferred to Bedford, near 
Legh, which he continued to serve, though 
in broken health, until he was succeeded, 
19 October, 1840, by the Rev. James 
Brownbill. Stationing himself at last in 
the Town of Ross, where he thought there 
was an opening for Religion, and where no 
Priest had taken up a residence since the 
Reformation, he formed a little flock, and 
exerted himself more than his infirmities 
seemed to justify for their benefit. On 1 
January, 1845, he sunk into the arms of 
Death, in his 68th year, and was honorably 
interred on the 7th, in Peterstow Church- 
yard. R,I. P. 



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Iq looking over these Annals of Ireland, are we not reminded of the words of Matha- 
thias ? I. lib. Machab, ch. 2, " Va mihi, uf quid natus sum videre eontritionem 
populi met 'i — Sanctai in munu Extraneorumfactu sunt : templum ejus sicul homo 
ignobilis: vasa glorice ejus captiva abducta sunt : trucidati sunt senes ejusin plateis; 
etjuvenes cecidenunt in gladio Inemicorum. Quce gens, non hereditairt regnum ejus 
et non obtinuit spolia ejus ?" 



REMARKS 

ON 

THE CASE OF THE JESUITS. 



1829. 



I, 

IN the Bill for the relief of Catholics now in progress through Parliament, it is declared 
to be expedient to make provision for the gradual suppression and final prohibition of the 
Society of the Jesuits in tha United Ringdora. 1 have endeavoured to collect from what 
has l eceatly been said against the Jesuits in and out of Parliament, the alleged grounds of 
this expediency ; and they appear to be principally these: — That the obedience which the 
Jesuits are required to pay to the Pope and other superiors, being aliens and residing 
abroad, is incompatible with their allegiance to the Sovereign ; and that their expulsion 
from all the Catholic States of Europe during the last century, affords strong presumption 
of the expediency of suppressing them here. On these allegations I beg to offer the 
following remarks. 

1st.— The Jesuits of the United Kingdom declare, and are willing to make the declara- 
tion with any formality that may be required by the legislature, that they hold themselves 
bound to yield as complete and undivided allegiance to their sovereign, and submission 
to the laws of the land, as any of their Protestant fellow-subjects. They have with all 
sincerity taken the prescribed Oath of Allegiance. They accordingly should hold them- 
selves bound in duty to refuse compliance with any order, which should clash with that 
Allegiance; Having been born subjects to the King, they became thereby bound to obey 
him, and comply with ihe laws of the land: and it would be absurd to say, that by any 
subsequent act of theirs, they could divest themselves of this obligation, even if they had 
not, as they have, recognised and confirmed it by Oath. The Rev. P. Kenney, superior of 
the Jesuits in Ireland, in his examination before the Commissioners of Irish Education 
inquiry, says, " Allegiance is a duty which a subject owes to his Covereign before any 
other obligation is contracted, whether to Bishop or Superior, and he is therefore already 
bound by that prior duty." (Eighth Report, p. 391.) By offering to rjia!:3 this decla- 
ration, the Jesuits offer to the Legislature a test of their Allegiance, such as has been 
deemed sufficient and satisfactory in other parallel cases, and may therefore be justly so 
deemed in theirs. ..... , , , ... 

As the Jesuits of this Kingdom are loyal in principle, so they have been loyal m con- 
duct. This their neighbours are ready to testify. Indeed, no charge of disloyalty has 
been adduced against any individual among them. It has been asserted in general terms, 
in some petitions from Ireland, that they have been teachers of sedition. They simply 
deny the charge ; and to such a charge no other answer cau be given. Concerning the 
supposed devotion of the Jesuits to the advancement of the Papal power, it is worth 
remarking, that the French Jesuits before tlieir suppression, uniformly taught the four 
propositions agreed to by the French bishops in 1682, which presented a greater opposi- 
tion to the power of the Pope, than has been made by any other body remaining within 
the pale of the Horaan Catholic Church. 

2nd.— Concerning the presumption of the expediency of suppressing the Jesuits here, 
which has been drawn from their expulsion from Catholic countries, I observe that the 
acts of the ('atholic governments, by which they were so expelled, cannot be constitu- 
tionally alleged or imitated in this Kingdom. 

For 1st The Jesuits of the United Kingdom have a right to be judged on their own 

merits. Jesuits of other countries, and other times, may hgve held doctrines or performed 
acts, consonant to the spirit of those among whom they lived, but which would be wholly 
incompatible with the sense of civil duty now entertained by the Jesuits of this Kingdom, 
in common with their fellow subjects. 



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2nd. — ^The expilsion of the Jesuits from the Catholic states, was not preceded by any 
judicial process. No opportunity was afforded to the condemned of instifjing themselves, 
by answering the charges brought agaisjtthem. Inieed, none of those charges applied 
to the persons who sunered under thsra, but applied to men o; other times, and in many 
instances, of other countries : and the Jesuits published answers to these charges, which 
satisfied many impartial persons. In one instance dj charge was brought against them. 
Charles 111. of Spain, declared, that he had good reasons for banishing the "Jesuits, but 
that those reasons were locked up within his royal breast. 

3J — It is worthy of remark, that the French Parliaraents condemned the Jesuits, as 
rebels and teachers of rebellion against all authorities, human and divine, civil and eccle- 
siastical ; and that the Jesuits are now accused in France of being and having always 
been, the advocates of all despotism, especially of the Papal power, and the enemies of all 
civil and religious liberty. Both accusations cannot be well grounded ; the Jesuits plead 
guilty to neither. 

4th,— If it still be insisted, that the Catholic goTernments ranst be presumed to have 
some good reasons for expelling the Jesuits, some modem writers answer that their 
expulsion and subsequent sup:ress:ca by the Pope, was principally the work of the Bour- 
bon courts; that the other Bourjon courts acted in this matter under the influence of 
the court of France: and that the latter was induced to adopt those measures by the 
efforts of that faction, which thirty years later produced Robespierre and the Goddess of 
Reason, 

5th, — But whatever may have been the motives of those governments, the people of the 
Catholic Countries took no part in their expuision. Xor were they followed, as it 
has been asserted, by the execrations of the people. They carried with them the bless- 
ings of (he people, to the promotion of whoie welfare their lives had been devoted, whose 
sons thev had taught to be good sons, and trained to become, in time, good husbands, 
and good fathers." 

6th. — Volumes, almost numberless, have been published on the continent, against and 
for the Jesuits, Among their advocates have appeared some of the most eminent states- 
men and philosophers of their time. Have not the opinions formed of Jesuits here, been 
drawn pretty exclusively f om the works of their adversaries ? And is this fair ? 

I have said no hing of the disgustingly immoral doctriues vulgarly imputed to Jesuits ; 
they are willing to disavow them, if the Legislature should think proper to require so 
degrading a disavowal. 

I have endeavoured to shew that the suppression of the Jesuits is not expedient on 
either of ti.e grounds above assigned. And I will venture to say, that the conduct and 
the principles of the Jesuits of this kingdom are blameless, and'that therefore it is not 
expedient because it is not just, to suppress their Society. — Moreover, that the enactnaent 
of a new penal law against them wid involve an infrinH-ement of the constitutional right 
of British subjects, and a violation of the principle of religious liberty. 

A FRIEND or JUSTICE. 



II. 

The foUomng extracts from the Evidence of ^Af Rev. Peter Kenney. a Jesuit, 
taken before the Conuniasioners of Education in Ireland, n-i I be found interestiHg. 
IF the General of the Order were to give you a command M ith respect to which there 
might be a doubt, whether it was in conflict with any other duty or not, should you Lave 
felt yourself at liberty to resolve that doubt ? — Most certainly ; in such a case it would 
lie on my conscience to apply to the best advice I could procure, in the same way as any 
discreet person would apply to the best advice he could get in a case of difficulty. 

Should you in that case be at liberty to apply for advice to any person you please ? — 
To any person, whom in my conscience I thought proper to consult, whether Bishop, 
Priest, or Layman. 

Suppose that the General of the Order were to take exception to the Oath of Allegiance 
in this country, and desire his inferior in this country not to take it, must he obey : the 
question supposes that the inferior has not taken the oath at the time i e receives the 
Superior's command ?— If I had a doubt in my own mind of the propriety of the oath 
that was to be administered, I should act as I would in the case before-mentioned ; if I 
had no doubt, I would take it: for allegiance is a duty which a subject J3wes_ to his 
Sovereign before any other obligation is" contracted, whether to Bishop or Superior, and 
he is therefore already bound by that prior duty. 

Suppose the General of the Order were to admit the principle that allegiance was due 
by the inferior in this country to the Foversign ; but to takt objection to the particular 
form of the oath of allegiance, he having been apprized of the form of the oath, cot 
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the question is, in that state of things, were he to think proper to issue his coramand to 
his inferior, not to take that particular form of oath, would the inferior in the case put 
be at liberty to take it? — He would be perfectly at liberty to take it, if he had sufficient 
grounds to believe that the oath was otherwise lawful. The way he is to ascertain whe- 
ther there are just grounds or not for admitting a particular form of oath is, not by ap- 
plying to his religious Superior, who is not the proper tribunal for deciding on the law- 
fulness or unlawfulness of an oath ; he should go to the proper tribunal, which is the judg- 
ment of the Bishops. No religions superior in the Catholic Church, who is not a Bishop, 
is a judge in matters relating to faith and morals. 'J he inferior should therefore apply to 
the Bishop, and if he tell him that such oath is consonant to the principles of Catholic 
faith, or rather, to be more explicit, that it contains nothing repugnant to the truths of 
Divine Revelation as held in the Catholic Church, then such religious inferior would not 
only be justified in taking that oath, but be bound to do it, when required by the laws of 
his country. 

Has the General of your Order the power of dispensing his Inferiors from any particu" 
lar description of oaths that they may have taken ? — He has a power delegated to him by 
the Holy See in certain cases. I should rather say he may have it; I do not know that he 
has it, but I know that ihe Holy See is frequently in the habit of delegating to religious 
superiors the poveer of dispensing in certain kinds of oaths or vows. These oaths or 
vows are private engagements by which a man binds himself, without reference to any 
other person ; for instance, if an inferior made an oath, or made a vow to fast upon cer- 
tain days in the week, to go upon a certain pilgrimage — these being acts that merely re- 
stricted his own will, and being judged to be inconsistent with his other obligations, then, 
if the Pope had delegated that power to him, which the Pope hasjure propria^ the Gene- 
ral would have, in virtue of this degelated power, a right of declaring that such oaths 
were not binding under these circumstances. Perhaps 1 might be allowed to say, as a 
general principle, that no general of any Religious Order has any right of interference 
whatever in granting dispensations, or any exercise of spiritual power, but what the Pope 
may please to grant him. 

And which the Pope is at liberty to withdraw at any time ? — Whenever he thinks pro- 
per, he is at liberty to modify, restrict, or withdraw it. 

Were the subjects connected with the doctrine, distinguished by the name Ultra- 
montane, discussed at Palermo or Slonyhurst ? — I do not know what doctrines may be 
designated by the name of Ultra-raontane ; but I know that I have not imbibed, or 
learned or believed any doctrines at any time or period of my education, that are contrary 
to the oaths and declarations of allegiance which Catholicks take in this country. The 
doctrines on which I might be supposed to hold any particular opinions, and that are 
sworn to in the oath of allegiance, I take to be the doctrine of the deposing power, in- 
cluding the assumed right of dispensing with the cath of allegiance, and the doctrine of 
the infallibility of the Pope. With regard to the doctrine of the deposing power, I de- 
clare that in my whole life I have never heard that doctrine proposed, expounded, explain- 
ed, or in any way whatsoever discussed in any school in which I have ever been; and 
as far as my knowledge reaches, I do believe that the doctrines of the deposing power, 
including the assumed right of dispensing with oaths of allegiance, is not taught at the 
present time in any school, college, or university in the world. I cannot recollect to have 
heard that doctrine introduced or intimated, or spoken of, even in private conversation 
among the Jesuits, except as an obsolete opinion, not now believed by any one, and never 
to be hereafter revived. The assertion contained in the Oath of allegiance, that it is not 
an article of Catholic Faith to believe that the Pope is infallible, is a doctrine which 
.Tesuits as well as all other Catholics maintain; but the proposition which asserts that 
the Pope is infallible, when loquens ex cathedrd. He decides that such or such a doctrine 
is an article of the Catholic faith, is an opinion which each man is free to hold whose 
conscience and judgment lead him to that conclusion ; and I beg leave here to add, that 
as a Jesuit, I am not bound to hold this opinion, nor am I bound to hold any doctrine or 
any opinion, or maintain any assertions whatsoever, that every other Catholic is not 
bound to hold and to maintain. I am free to avow, that in fact, a great number of Jesuits 
maintain the doctrine that the Pope, speaking (as the schoolmen say) from the chair; 
in which he teaches the whole church, is so far assisted by the spirit of God, as to be 
preserved from error, when he thus propounds a dogma of faith to the whole church : but 
they defend this position as private theologians, exercising their own judgment in a 
matter on which the supreme authority of the church has not pronounced a definite sen- 
tence : nor are they bound to support this doctrine, even as matter of opinion, by any 
law or by any statute, or by any vow, or by any obligation, that does not arise from their 
own free and full conviction. They enjoy, in this respect, the same liberty as other 
Catholic theologians who teach the same opinion, and as those also, who without censure 
defend the contrary assertion. I look upon this question to be a speculative rather than 
a practical one ; I have not, therefore, ever given to it that time and attentioD that would 

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enable me to swear, were I even interrogated by ray bishop, that the Pope is infallible, 
speaking ex cathedrd ; for the question here is not about infallibility residing in the 
church, nor about the advantages or the disadvantages of believing in this infallibility, 
since all Catholics believe that the Church, that is the body of bishops, with the Pope at 
their head, are infallible when they propound dogmas of faith. The question is not, then, 
whether the privilege is attached to the body of pastors, with the Pope at their head, but 
whether it resides in the Pope 6e/ore the assent of the body of pastors is known. Now, 
however obnoxious the tenet of infallibility may appear to a statesman, or to a politician, 
he cares not whether it be considered to rest with the Pope alone, or with the Bishops 
united to the Pope, if it be certain that the Pope and the bishops will always agree in 
the same decision ; such is, however the fact. In eighteen centuries, among the almost 
innumerable definitions that have been addressed by the Holy See to the whole Church, 
there is not one in which the Bishops did not finally agree. Hence the abettors of the 
opinion that the Pope is infallible in propounding dogmas of faith to the whole church, 
always maintain that the Providence of God will secure that the Bishops shall join with 
him, so that, in point of fact, whether the Pope speaks first, or the Pope and the Bishops 
speak together, they will always be united in judgment ; and the result will be, that the 
decree or dogma propounded will be received as infallible. Of this we have a splendid 
instance in the bull Auctorem fidei, so often mentioned in these examinations ; it was ad- 
dressed to the whole church by Pius the Sixth in 1794, and every dogmatical definition 
which it contains has long since been venerated as the infallible judgment of the Catholic 
church. How then can the interests of society, or of the state, be more involved in the 
question of the Pope's infallibility than they are in that of the infallibility of the Catholic 
Church, which we all receive as an article of faith ? If the Pope, loquens ex cathedrd, be 
not infallible, his doctrine will still be unchangeable, and in a little time the judgment of 
the Bishops will proclaim that at least he spoke an infallible truth. The agreement, then, 
between the Pope and the Bishops, in matters of faith, is the practical result of Catholic 
principles, while a difference of judgment, to say the most of it, is a theory that is merely 
possible. As far, then, as the social system may be supposed to be interested in the tenet 
of infallibility, the infallibility of the Pope cannot in practice be distinguished from that 
of the church. 

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III. 

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefor e 
men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more^ and not to keep their suspi- 
cions in smother." — From Sir Francis Bacon's Slst Essay. London Ed. 1691. 



IN a country, which justly prides itself on the dignity of its character, and on its li- 
teral and expanded views of Science and Government, it is surprising that many respect- 
able persons are to be found, who can shriek out at the mention of Jesuits, Nuns and 
Friars, and appear just as much alarmed, as a group of children, whose imaginations have 
been worked up with " stories dire " of Ghosts and Paries. — This nervous feeling how- 
ever is not quite manly — it must expose them to the ridicule of rational and sober persons; 
and as their fears and suspicions originate in sheer ignorance, they would do well, as the 
motto advises, to apply a remedy, by procuring the needful information. 

Who then are the members of these Religious Societies in England ? 

I answer, they are free-born English subjects, exemplary for the purity and correct- 
ness of their morals, amongst whom you will find many, who are connected with the 
most ancient families in the kingdom — many who are gifted with extraordinary genius and 
talents, and who cheerfully devoted the flower of their days, to the irksooie, but highly 
important charge, of educating youth. Ask the Magistrates and Gentlemen in their neigh- 
bourhood, and they will tell you, that they are models of submission to the laws ;— that 
they are always foremost to give proofs of their loyalty ;— that the frequent subject of their 
school exercises, is celebrare domestica facta, " ( Horace de Arte PoeticS.) to celebrate 
the memorable deeds and brilliant exploits of our Military and Naval Heroes, They will 
tell you, that the Tradesmen find them honorable and exact in their payments ; — that the 
lower orders round such establishments, are particularly civil, peaceable, and regular, 
and that the poor bless them, for their abundant charity and benevolence.* 

• In a letter to the CoBrter, 30 April, 1821, signed Verax, I re&d " The Establishment at Stonyhurst 
daily feeds a number of poor, without any distinction of Religion." 

Copied from the Morning Herald of 27 May, 1826.— Stonyhurst.— This place is surrounded by the 
townships of Haighton, Bailey, and Chagely, in all which distress is very prevalent. Hitherto, however, 
the poor have been greatly relieved by the assistance afforded them from the Catholic College, at Stony- 
burst ; but the demands made upon the charitable conductors of this institution have lately been so nu- 
merous, as to preclude the possibility of much longer affording even a trifling relief to all who ask. Mr. 
"Wright, a learned and excellent superior of the College, informed a friend of mine, that persons actually 
came a distance often or twelve miles to beg a pint or two of soup ; and he added that so much were his 
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But is it good policy, to suffer the existence of such Institutions in England ? 

I answer, Yes. First, because otherwise, the Catholics would send their children to 
be educated abroad. This to a Statesman is a very important consideration— Education 
at home, attaches youth to the soil, as well as to the Constitution of their Country;— it 
gives them a dislike for foreign interests, and makes them English in principles and in 
habits. 

Secondly, the Financier must object to Absentees, as carrying large sums out of the 
country. Calculate, if you please, the yearly average expence bestowed on the education 
of Catholic children in the United Kingdom, with all the extraordinary items — take into 
consideration, the occasional visits of their friands and families, who would follow them 
abroad, and then decide, if it be expedient to transport such establishments. 

Thirdly, it is good policy to retain them, on account of the valuable services to the 
State, by educating the rising generation : " For what greater or better service can we 
render to the State (says Cicero) than by teaching and educating youth ?" * These in- 
structors of youtli, combine gteat experience with acknowleged talents and probity. They 
are eminently qualified to form the youthful mind to Christian piety and learning, and 
are therefore entitled to the protection of a wise and enlightened Government. In fact, 
were they not authorized, and encouraged by the first Relief Bill, passed in the 18th year 
of King George III. (chapter 60th) to take upon themselves the education, government and 
boarding of youth ? Did not Parliament on that occasion proclaim to the whole world, 
that it was EXPEDIENT to repeal certain provisions to the contrary ? Was it not 
enacted in the 31st year of the same gracious Sovereign, (chapter 32nd,) that no person, 
after taking the Oath of Allegiance, was to be disturbed "/or entering or belonging to 
any Ecclesiastical Order or Communili/ of the Church of Rome 1 " Surely then no 
individual can be found, so callous to the feelings of humanity, as to wish that Parliament 
should enact any new Law NOW, for depri ving the Catholics of the United Kingdom, of tho 
comfort and advantage of employing such Instructors for their children, even if his mind 
be not convinced of the polici/ of the measure. 

But do not members of Religious Orders bind themselves by irrevocable engagements 1 
And are not the Jesuits in particular slaves to the Pope ? 

To this objection I answer, first, the English Constitution admits none of their engage- 
ments as irrevocable. Each one is at perfect liberty to renounce the state of celibacy — to 
desert the religious inclosure~to possess and inherit property without the smallest oppo- 
sition from the Civil Power. P»ut if by a voluntary act, these individuals prefer to lead the 
single life of the Fellows of our own Universities, and to withdraw themselves from the 
intricacy of worldly concerns, in order to apply themselves without interruption to the 
arduous duties of their state of life, are they not to be commended for their courage and 
disinterestedness ? And surely the Free Constitution of Engla.nd (even if the Con- 
tinental Governments should attempt it) would disdain to deny them the exercise of 
this liberty. The United States of America (and none are more jealous of their rights 
and Liberties) disregard all hypochondriac fears and alarms on this subject — they offer 
protection and encouragement to Jesuits of all countries : they are even grateful to them 
for their valuable and national services in educating youth ; and Congress granted to 
their College at Georgetown, the privilege of an University as far back as 1 May, 1815. 

Secondly. As to the Pope, there is not a shadow of reason to be alarmed on his ac- 
count. A Jesuit, being generally supposed to be a shrewd and sensible person, must be 
competent to distinijuish between a Civil andSpiritual concern. In matters of a spiritual 
nature, he is undoubtedly disposed, like every other good Catholic, to pay the tribute of 
proper respect and deference to the Holy See. But in temporal matters, in civil concerns, 
he solemnly disavows every authority save that of his Country. A real Jesuit will al- 
ways be a good and faithful subject, and will ever be ready to stand or to fall with the 
Constitution. 

But if this character of the Jesuits be true, how comes it, that they were expelled from 
the Dominioirs of ecery Catholic Prince in Europe? 

To answer this v^ry natural enquiry, we must remind the reader that a Triple conspi- 
racy was formed in France, about the middle of the last century, for the subversion of 
the Altar, the Prostration of Thrones, and the Dissolution of all Civil Society. From 
the accredited Records of the very Conspirators, it is clearly demonstrated, that the Des- 
truction of the Jesuits was determined as essentially necessary for the success of their abo- 
minable project. Their policy was deep — they saw that the charge of educating youth 
was principally intrusted to the Jesuits, and they prophetically declared that if these in- 
structors and directors of youth were once completely destroyed, all the other re- 
ligious Orders would fall of themselves, and that the rising generation, in the absence of 
all moral and religious instruction, would easily be corrupted, and would soon be ripe 
for the bloody work of anarchy and despotism. When by dint of the foulest calumnies 

• Quod munus reipubllcee majui meliusve aPfere possumus quam si docemus atque erudimus juventu- 
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and intrigues they had succeeded in dispossessing the Jesuits of their College at Paris 
D'Alenabert writes thus. May, 4, 1762: "The Evacuation of the College of Louis le 
<5rand is of more importance to us than that of Martinico. The Parliament of Paris are 
the public Executioners, and take their orders from Philosophism without knowing it." A 
few months before, September 8, 1761, he had written that " Philosophism was on the 
point of being revenged of the Jesuits." The Conspirators considered the total extinction 
of the Jesuits of such vital importance, that D'Alerobert panic struck with a report of the 
probability of the Order being revived in Spain and Portugal, thus expressed himself 23 
June, 1777: "Reason is undone, should the enemy's army gain the battle."* It was 
necessary to begin with prejudicing the public mind against the Body : for this purpose 
they propagated the most infamous calumnies against it — the indiscretions of a single 
Jesuit served as the ground of indictment against the whole Society, and no expense was 
spared in disseminating libels and scandalous pamphlets. Marquis Pombal confessed 
that he had spent 800,000 ducats for the destruction of the Body. (Le Journal hist, et 
litt. p. 260. 15 Juin, 1792.) Mons le President Rolland, p. 35 of his Memoir 1781, says 
" L'aflfaire seule des Jesuites me coutoit de mon argent plus de 60,000 livres. J'avois 
consacre a cette ceuvre mon tems, ma sante et mon argent." — and every one knows that 
la Boette a Perette at Paris, a fund amounting to 40,000 livres per annum, was chiefly 
employed in promoting their destruction. 

The Jesuits were accused of Ambition, 
This charge is best refuted in the words of King Henry the 4lh's Answer to the Depu- 
tation from the Parliament of Paris concerning the Re-establishment of the Order. "I 
don't understand how you can make those ambitious who refuse dignities and Prelacies, 
and make a vow to God never to aspire to any Preferment, and who seek nothing in this 
world besides serving all that are willing to employ them, without any view of Interest 
or Recompence." 

" It must be owned that with their wonderful patience and regular way of life, they 
may compass what they will." 

The Jesuits were represented as immensely rich. 

And yet it is a certain fact "that the riches which were found at the Suppression, in 
their Houses and Colleges, whether in specie, plate, or jewels, were very inconsiderable, 
and greatly disappointed the hopes of those who expected to have found inexhaustible 
treasures in the search. See page 57, Annual Register of I773.t 

The Jesuits were accused of being Hostile to the Episcopal Power. 

And yet the assembled Bishops in the General Council of Trent approred of the Insti- 
tute: nineteen Popes confirmed it: Jesuits were employed by every Bishop in communion 
with the Roman See: and the 50 French Prelates in particular, when consulted on the 
subject by Louis XV. bore honorable testimony to the usefulness of their services, and to 
their exemplary submission to Episcopal authority. 

The Jesuits fell indeed : but alas I how long did the powers who destroyed them sur- 
vive their destruction ? and what was gained by their suppression, let the history of Eu- 
rope testify ! ! I 

Glorious to their Society is the declaration of the same Authority thai yielded to their 
suppression, that " the Catholic world, with unanimous voice, demands their re-estab- 
lishment." — Such a declaration, after the experience of full 40 years, while it restores 
their fair and honorable name, abundantly refutes the charges brought against them, 
and proclaims to the whole world the great importance and necessity of their services.^ 

A Report having been spread that the Jesuits are considered as particularly obnoxious 
in England, i( may be useful to submit to persons who are prejudiced against them, the 
opinions of eminent Statesmen and Writers concerning the Institute and Manners of that 
Society, 

* See Baruel's Memoirs of the French Revolution. 

t I remember to have read in one of Mr. Bulwer's publications that " there is awonderful vigor of con- 
stitution ina Popular Fallacy. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is 
to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, until it seems to have given up the Ghost, and the 
next day it is as healthy as ever." As a proof of this, I may give the following assertion that made the 
round of the London and Provincial Papers a few years ago. " It has been calculated that the 
Jesuits, before the suppression of their Order, possessed in various parts of the world a revenue of 
£373,000.000." After this ye Hopes, Barings and Rostckilds, hide your diminished heads! ! ! 

$The same Holy Father Plus VII. after restoring the Society 7 August, 1814, addressed a pathetic letter 
15 December that year, to K. Ferdinand VII of Spain, in which he says, " Longa annorum experientia 
docult, Societatis Jesu regulares Presbyteri non modo, ob probates eorum atque ad Evangelicam vitam 
conformatos mores, bonum, ubicumque ; terrarum degunt. Christi odorem longe lateque diffundunt. sed ad 
animarum salutem procurandam toti anima contentione se conferunt Quem ad finem consequendum omni 
genam scientiarum suppellectilem cum vitse integritate copulantes, in amplificanda religione, eaque & 
nefariisimpiorura hominum conatibus defendenda, in corruptis Christianorum fidelium moribus ad bonam 
frugem revocandis, in juventute ad omnem literarum ac pietatis Christianse lationem informanda, surama 
cum utilitate versantur. Quamobrem dubitare nullo modo possumus, quominus— et Catholicas Religionis 
amor et bonarura artiura disciplina, et Christianorum morum sanctitas refloreseat, atque indies magis 
magisque confirmetur. Quasutilltates aliae quamplurimae consequuntur. Amor videlicet debitumque ergs 
Regem obsequium. jugis clvium inter se Concordia, Tranquillitas, Incolumitas, privata denique (ut omnia 
unoverbo complectamur) et publica Populorum Regiae Majestatis tuae auctoritati commissorum Felicita«." 



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!. Cardinal de Richelieu. 

This profound Statesman delivered the following opinion of the Constitutions of the 
Society of Jesus ; *' Avec des principes si surs, des vues si bien dirig^es, on gouverneroit 
un empire egal au monde.'^ 

2. Grotius. 

This illustrious writer bears testimony to the unblemished morals and great abilities of 
this Society : "Mores inculpatos et bonas artes," and he adds • Magna in yulguni au- 
toritas, propter vitse sanctimoniam, et quia non sumpta mercede, juventus Uteris sapienti- 
aeque preceptis imbuitur." 

3. Frederick, King of Prussia. 

This warlike Sovereign used to call the Jesuits the Life Guards of the Pope, and the 
Grenadiers of Religion. When Pope Clement XIV. published the Brief which suppressed 
the Society, his Majesty wrote the following letter to his Agent at Rome* 
" Abbe Colombini, 

You have ray authority to declare to every body, and to inform the Pope, or his Prime 
Minister, that ray determination with respect to the Jesuits, is to protect them in my 
Dominions in the same manner as they have been hitherto. By the treaty of Breslau 
I guaranteed the religion, in statu quo, and I never met with better Priests than the 
Jesuits. You may add, that as I am of the class of Heretics, his Holiness cannot 
grant me a DISPENSATION for breaking my word, nor for deviating from the duty of 
an Honest Man or a King. Yours, &c. 

(Signed) Frederick. 
Vid. p. 165, Annual Register, 1773. 
Catharine, Empress of Russia wrote thus to Pope Pius VI, 
'* Tres saint Pere, 

Je sais que votre Saintete est tres-embarrassee, raais la crainte convient mal a votre 
caractere. Votre dignite ne pent pas s'accorder avec la politique, toutes les fois que la 
politique blesse la religion. Les motifs qui m'ont determinee a accorder ma protection 
aux J^suites sont fondes sur la raison et \di justice, ainsi que sur I'espoir qu'ils seront 
utiles a mes Etats. Cette troupe d'horanes paisibles et innocens vivra dans mon empire, 
parce que de toutes les societes catholiques, elle est la plus propre a instruire mes sujets 
catholiques, et a leur inspirer des sentimens d'humanite et les principes de la religion chr^» 
tienne. 

'* Je suis resolue de soutenir ces pretres centre quelque puissance que ce soit, et en 
cela je ne fais que reraplir mon devoir, puisque je suis leur souveraine, et que je les re- 
garde comme des sujets fideles et utiles." 
Montesquieu. 

" II est glorieux pour la Societ6 de Jesus, d'avoir 6te la Premiere qui ail montr^ dans 
les contrees de I'Amerique I'idee de la Religion jointe a celle de I'Huraanite. Un senti- 
ment exquis pour toute ce qu'elle appelle Honneur et son 261e pour la Religion lui ont 
fait entreprendre de grandes choses, et elle y a reussi. Elle a tire des bois des peuples 
disperses, elle leur a donne une subsistence assuree, elle les a vetus, et quand elle n'au- 
roit fait par la qu'augmenter I'industrie parmi les hommes, elle auroit fait beaucoup.** 

6. Voltaire, 

In a letter addressed to P6re de la Tour, from Paris, in February, 1746, writes thus: 
** It is impossible to express my astonishment when I hear the Jesuits taxed with teach- 
ing a laxity of morals. I dare venture to say, that there is nothing more inconsistent, 
nothing more unjust, nothing more shameful, than to accuse persons of corrupt morals 
who lead the most rigid lives in Europe.'' 

7. The French Bishops. 

The famous declaration of the 50 French Bishops, addressed to Louis XV. sets forth 
that they are persuaded, that there is not a man in the French nation who can attest, that 
he ever heard the Jesuits teach a doctrine contrary to the safety of his Majesty's person, or 
to the received maxims of the kingdom* On the contrary, their whole study was to 
impress on their scholars and hearers the most dutiful sentiments of loyalty and respect to 
their sovereign. 

8. RoBEKTSON, in his Life of Charles V. vol ii. though in some places he severely* 
censures this Society, yet candidly acknowledged, that it is the best regulated of all the 
monastic orders : Vol. iii. that no class of regular clergy has been more eminent for de- 
cency, and even purity of manners ; — and that this order can boast of a greater number 
of ingenious authors than all the other religious fraternities put together. 

9. Monseigneur Bausset, Bishop of Aleth. 

This Prelate thus expresses his opinion: ** Wherever the Jesuits made themselves 
heard, they preserved all classes of society in a spirit of order, wisdom, and consistence. 
The principal towns in France still remember that there never was more order and tran- 

* N.B This author professes to derive most of his information against the Jesuits from Monsieur Cha- 
lotais' Memoir, which is now well known to have been composed by D'Alembert, the most artful of the 
antl-chrlstian conspirators. 

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quility, mora probity in dealings, fewer failures, or less depravity, than during the exis* 
tence of the Jesuits. Their destruction was a deadly blow to the education of youth in all 
Catholic Europe, a remaikable confession equally in the mouths of their friends and their 
enemies. — These men who were described as so dangerous, so powerful, and so vindictive, 
bowed without a murmur under the terrible hand that crushed them." 

10th and Lastly, Henry IV. King of France, in his answer to the Deputation from the 
Parliament of Paris, A.D. 1603, concerning the re-establishment of the Jesuits in his 
Dominions. 

" J'ai toutes vos conceptions en la mienne ; mais vous n'avez pas la mienne en la votre. 
Vous m'avez propose des difficulles qui vous serablent grandes et considerables, et n'avez 
cette consideration qae tout ce que vous avez dit a ete pese par moi, il y a huit a neuf ans 
vous ; faites les entendus en matiere d'etat, et vous n'y eateadez non plus que moi a 
rapporter un proces. 

" Je veux done que vous sachiez, touchant Poissy, que si tous eussiez aussi bien fait 
qu'un ou deux jesuites qui s'y trouverent a propos, les choses y fussent mieux allees pour 
les catholiques. On reconnut des lors non leur ambition, mais bien leur sufRsance, et 
in'6tonne sur quoi vous fondez I'opinion d'ambition en des personnes qui refusent les dig- 
nit6s et prelatures quand elles leur sont offertes, et qui font un voeu a Dieu de n'y aspirer 
jamais : et qui ne pretendent autre chose en ce monde, que de servir sans recompense tous 
ceux qui veulent tirer service d'euxi Que si ce mot de J^suite vous deplait, pourquoi ne 
reprenez-vous pas ceux qui se disent religieux de la Trinite, et si vous estimez d'etre 
aussi bien de la Corapagnie de J6sus qu'eux, pourquoi ne dites-vous pas que vos filles 
sont aussi bien religieuses que les Filles-Dieu a Paris, et que vous ^tes autant de I'ordre 
du Saint-Esprit, que mes chevaliers et quemoi 1 J'aimerais autant et mieux 6tre appel6 j^- 
suite, que jacobin et augustin. 

'*La Sorbonne, dont vous parlez, les a condamn^s ; mais ca 6te comme vous, devant 
que de les connaitre ; et si I'ancienne Sorbonne n'a point voulu, par jalousie, les connaitre, 
la nouvelle y a fait ses Etudes et s'en loue. S'ils n'ont el6 en France jusqu'a present, 
Dieu me reserve cette gloire, que je tiens a grace, de les y etablir ; et si ils n'y etaient 
que par provision, ils y seront d^sormais par edit et par arret. La volenti de mes prl- 
decesseurs les y retenait : ma volont^ est de les Etablir. 

L'Universit^ les a contrepointes ; mais c'a ete, ou parce qu'ils faisaient mieux que 
les autres, t^moin L'affluence des 6coliers qu'ils avaient en leurs colleges ; ou parce qu'ils 
n'^toient incorpor^s en I'Universit^, dont ils ne feront maintenant refus quand je leur com- 
manderai, et quand, pour les remettre, vous serez contraints de me les demander. 

" Vous dites qu'en votre parlement les plus doctes n'ont rien appris chez eux. Si les 
plus vieux sont les plus doctes, il est vraj ; car ils avaient etudie devant que les jesuites 
fussent connus en France. Mais j'ai oui dire que les autres parlemens ne parlent pasainsi, 
ni mSrae tout le v&tre. Et si on n'y apprend mieux qu'ailleurs, d'ou vient que, par leur 
absence, votre Universite est rendue toute deserte, et qu'on les va chercher, nonobstant 
tous vos arrets, a Douay et hors de mon royaume. 

"Deles appeler corapagnie de factieux, pour ce qu'ils ont 6te de la ligue, c'a et6 
I'injure du temps. lis croyaient y bien faire, comme plusieurs autres qui s'^taient meles 
dans les affaires de ce temps-la ; mais ils ont et6 trompes et defus avec eux, et ont reconnu 
tout le contraire de ce qu'ils avaient cru de mon intention ; mais je veux croire que c'a ete 
avec moins de malice que les autres, et je tiens que la meme conscience, jointe aux graces 
que jejeur ferai, me les affectionnera autant et plus qu'a la ligue. 

" Ils attirent, dites-vous, les enfans qui ont de I'esprit, voient et choisissent les 
meilleurs ; et c'est de quoi je les estime. Ne faisons-nous pas cboix des meilleurs soldats 
pour aller a la guerre; et si les faveurs n'avaient place, comme envers vous, en recevriez- 
vous qui ne fussent dignes de votre compagnie et de seoir au parlement? S'ils vous 
fournissaient des pr^cepteurs ou des predicaleurs ignorans, vous les mepriseriez ; ils ont de 
beaux esprits, vous les en reprenez. Quant aux biens que vous dites qu'ils avaient, c'est 
une calomnie et une imposture ; et sais tres bien que, par la reunion faite a mon domaine, 
on n'a su entretenir a Bourges et a Lyon sept ou huit regens, au lieu qu'ils y 6taient au' 
nombre de trente a quarante : et quand il y aurait de I'inconvenient de ce cote, par mon 
6dit, j'yai pourvu, 

*' Le voeu d'obeissance qu'ils font au pape ne les obligera pas davantage a suivre sou 
vouloir que le serment de fid^lile qu'ils me firent, a n'entreprendre rien contre le prince 
naturel ; mais ce voeu n'est pas pour toutes choses, ils ne le font que d'ob^ir au pape, 
quand il voudra les envoyer a la conversion des infid^les ; et de fait, c'est par eux que Dieu 
a convert) les Indes; et c'est ce que je dis souvent, si I'Espagnol s'en est servi, pourquoi 
ne s'en servira pas la France ? Notre condition est-elle pire que les autres? L'Espagne 
est-elle plus airaable que la France ? Si elle Test aux siens, pourquoi ne le sera la France 
aux miens ? 

" lis entrent comme ils peuvent, aussi font bien les autres et suis moimerae entre conirae 
j'ai pu dans mon royaume ; mais il faut ajouter que leur patience est grande et que moi je 
I'admire, car avec patience et bonne vie ils viennent a bout de toutes choses, Etje ne 



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les estime pas moins en ce que vous dites qu'ils sont grands observaleurs de leurs voeux : 
c'est ce qui les mainliendra. Aussi n'ai-je rien voulu changer en leur regie, raais les y 
maintenir. Que si je leur ai liraite quelques conditions qui ne plairont pas aux etrangers, 
11 vaut mieux que les etrangers prennent la loi de nous, que si nous la prenions d'eux ; 
quoi qu'il en soit, je suis d'accord avec raes sujets. Pour ce qui est des eccl^siastiques 
qui se formalisent d'eux, c'est de tout temps que Tignorance en a voulu a la science ; et 
j'ai reconnu que, quand je parleiois de les retablir, deux sortes de peisonnes s'y oppose- 
raient particuliereraent ; ceux de la religion reforraee, et les eccl^siastiques raal vivants ; 
c'est ce qui me les fait estiraer davantage. 

" Touchant I'opinion qu'ils ont du pape, je sais qu'ils le respeclent fort; aussi fais-je 
moi ; raais vous ne dites pas, qu'il a voulu saisir a Rome les livres de M. Bellarrain, parce 
qu'il n'a pas voulu donner autant de juridiction au Saint Pere, que font comraunement les 
autres. Vous xiQ dites pas aussi que, ces jours passes, les jesuites ont soutetiu que le pap« 
ne pouvait errer, raais que Clement pouvait faillir. En tout cas, je m'assure, qu'ils ne 
disent rien davantage que les autres de Tautorit^ du pape, et crois que, quand on voudrait 
faire le proems aux opinions, il le faudrait faire a celle de I'Eglise catholique. 

" Quant a la doctrine d'emanciper les ecclesiastiques de mon obeissance ou d'enseigner 
a tuer les rois, il faut voir, d'une part, ce qu'ils disent, et informer s'il est vrai qu'ils le 
raontrent a la jeunesse. Une chose me fait croire qu'il n'en est rien: c^est que, depuis 
trente ans en 9'a qu'ils enseignent la jeunesse en France, plus de cinquante raille ecoliers 
de toute sorte de conditions sont sortis de leur college, ont converse et v^cuaveceux, 
et que Ton n'en trouve un seul de ce grand nombre qui soutienne leur avoir oui" tenir un 
tel langage ni autre approchanl de ce qu'on leur reproche. De plus, il y a des ministres 
qui ont eludie sous eux, . ...Qu'on s'informe d'eux de leur vie : il est a presumer qu'ils 
en diront le pis qu'ils pourront, ne fut-ce que pour s'excuser d'etre sortis d'avec eux. 
Je sais qu'on I'a fait, el n'a-t-on tir6 d'auire raison, sinon que, pour leurs moeurs, 
il n'y a rien a dire." 

" Quant a liarri^re, tant s'en faut qu'un j^suite Pail confess^ ; corame vous dites ; que 
je fus averti par un jesuite de son entreprise, et qu'un autre lui dit qu'il serait damn6 s'il 
osait I'entreprendre. Quant a Chfttel, les tourraens ne purent lui arracher aucune accusa- 
tion a I'encontre de Varade ou autre jesuite, et si aulrenient 6tait, pourquoi I'auriez-vous 
6pargn6 ? car celui qui fut arrete fut arrets pour un autre sujet, que Pon dit s' etre trouv^ 
dans ses ecrits. Et quand ainsi serait qu'un jesuite aurait fait ce coup, faut-il que tous 
les apotres patissent pour un Judas? ou que je r^ponde de tous les larcins et 
de toutes les fautes qu'ont faites et que feront a I'avenir ceux, qui auront €\e raes 
soldats? Dieu m'a voulu alors hurailier et sauver, etjelui en rends grace, et m'enseigne 
depardonner les offenses, et j'ai fait pour son amour volontiers. Tousles jours jeprie 
Dieu pour raes ennemis, tant s'en faut que je ra'en veuille souvenir, corame vous rae conviez 
a faire pen chretiennement, dont je ne vous sais point gr6," On this Address the Editor 
of La France, 21 August, 1843, concludes: 

" Une pareille piece n'a pas besoin de commentaires ; nous la livrons en toute confiance 
a I'appreciation des homraes de bon sens et de bonne foi. lis n'auront qtf'a la rapprocher 
des attaques anciennes et modernes : chaque phrase porte coup et chaque caloranie y 
trouve sa r^ponse. 

BRITANNICUS. 



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Original Correspondence, addressed to the Editor of the Western Times, 

THE JESUITS' OATH, 

Mr. Editor, — Last week I witnessed with pain, a most wanton disregard for truth, 
justice, decency, and the charities of social life, exhibited in the columns of the Exeter 
and Plymouth Gazette^ of 21 Nov. The Article purports to be an Appeal to the people 
of England ; but this brawler calculates without his host, if he expects that the honest 
English public will mistake his vapouring invective for argument, and empty sound for 
sterling sense : the English people are too reflecting and conscientious to give implicit 
credit to the propagators of false reports and slander : they know the scriptural saying, 
*' a lie is a foul blot in a man;" and they never will condemn the accused without hearing 
and weighing the evidence for and against thera. The appeal is divided into two parts. 1st. 
The oath in the Roman Pontifical for the Bishop elect — which has now been taken for 800 
years — a period by the bye sufficiently long for the discovery of danger to civil government, 
if any had existed; and, 2nd, The oath of secresyofthe Jesuits — a weak and clumsy 
invention of the enemy, and which has never been taken by any Jesuit. But will it not 
calm the feelings and mitigate the terrors of this Alarmist to know, that in order to remove 
every occasion of cavil and slander, which he or persons like him, might borrow f rem 
this passage in the episcopal oath—'' Hsereticos, Schismaticos et Rebelles pro posse per- 
sequar et impugoabo" Pope Pius VI. 23 June, 1791, allowed the words to be omitted 
altogether in the conseciation of future Bishops of Ireland, as he had previously done in 
the case of Stanislaus, Archbishop of Mohilow, 16 years before ? Surely, the scribbler has 
also forgotten his Latin, or he would never have translated the clause, " I will persecute 
and fight against all heretics, &c." He misinterprets it as a signal for mischief, as recom- 
mending persecution and assault against thera as enemies. The preceding words, "salvo 
meo ordine," qualify the meaning, and prove that the pursuit of, and opposition to heresy on 
their part, must refer to their spiritual, pastoral and apostolic solicitude and zeal in con- 
vincing the misguided of their errors, and bringing them to tbe knowledge of the truth. 
Had this Wiseacre lived in the reign of Nero, in all probability he would have denounced 
St. Paul to the civil government for encouraging the Christian converts to go armed 
" capapie." Ephes. vi., 11 — 17. Has he never yet learned, that the Canons prohibit a 
Catholic Clergyman from being accessary to the effusion of human blood — that the dafect 
of lenity renders the candidate for holy orders irregular — that the Catholic Church in the 
27th Canon of the 3rd Council of Lateran, in the year 1179, disclaims the right of san- 
guinary punishment? — But then the dreaded secret oath of the Jesuits— those ubiquitous 
and invisible agents, " who are at this moment everywhere in England, yet not seen 
anywhere'* — this is to hiss and lash the nation into madness ! ! ! Now, is it not very 
naughty in him, to terrify the weak minds of children, and the old women of both sexes, 
-with chimeras and hobgoblins? I am no Jesuit, but a secular priest; still I have had 
every opportunity of examining the Institute and Constitutions of the Society — and I can, 
on the faith of a Christian, declare, that the oath is a gratuitous fabrication — an in- 
genious device" like O 'Neil's forged Bull for his gaping audiences at Exeter Hall — one of 
those pious frauds which some sanctimonious spouters, turning up the white of their eyes 
to heaven, dare accuse others of teaching, " that the end sanctifies the means." I am as 
certain, as of my own existence, that no real Jesuit ever has, or ever could take such a 
diabolical oath. It is a vile and infamous calumny ; in good keeping, however, with what 
a Churchman forged for this very Gazette, 28 Dec, 1839 — that the order of Jesuits between 
the years 1540 and 1570, had sacrificed the lives of nine hundred thousand non-conformists !!! 
Can such calumniators believe, there is a divine commandment against those who bear 
false witness against their neighbour ? — After all, this disgraceful, un-English, and anti- 
christian spirit, will not produce the effects© maliciously intended. Education is getting 
general among the people — a new light has burst upon them— they must and will insist on 
fair play — they will read and think, and decide for themselves, and judge of the tree by 
the fruits. Crahbe has justly observed, *' That a great lie is like a great fish on dry 
land, It may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you — you 
have only to keep still, and it will die of itself." In the hope that before this Alarmist 
gives up the ghost, he may have the grace of true repentance, I remain, your humblt 
servant, GEO. OLIVER. 

Exeter, 24 Nov. 1340. 



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